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Post by vinnieb on Dec 2, 2007 16:08:06 GMT -5
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Post by davep on Dec 2, 2007 16:53:31 GMT -5
well i found my doe. too bad i couldn't get to her Couldn't get to her?  ?  Good Lord man, you ain't gonna melt! I got a COLD wet @$$ at Assateague after stupidly shooting a sika ACROSS one of the guts. Stripped down ,figuring how deep could it be? Turns out PLENTY deep! AND colder than I ever thought. I was shaking so bad I could barely field dress her. I REALLY didn't want to cross back to my gun,clothes,and pack! I double timed back to the truck and dry clothes. Killed a tiny yearling that was limping badly at the north tract at Chapmans Landing. Tracks right into the swamp/backwater above the cliffs there. I could seea trail through the duckweed and slime. Just above my knees, but that was PLENTY deep. Stuck it out and killed another! If your going to shoot something, you need to make EVERY possible effort to recover it and utilize it! |
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Post by osprey on Dec 2, 2007 16:58:06 GMT -5
Ask yourself this - if it was a huge 16 point state record, would you have gotten wet to get it? If yes, then you should have gotten wet for this one, or humped a canoe, rope and gappling hook, or something in there!
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Post by tinmanhunting on Dec 2, 2007 17:06:56 GMT -5
Great point and well put  Ask yourself this - if it was a huge 16 point state record, would you have gotten wet to get it? If yes, then you should have gotten wet for this one, or humped a canoe, rope and gappling hook, or something in there! |
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Post by vinnieb on Dec 2, 2007 17:31:13 GMT -5
i tried everyhting i could think of. i tried wading out but i sunk to my waste and could hardly get out. i climbed out on a fallen down tree, when the tree snapped and i went in to my waste, a hooked it with a rope and hook but it is hung up on a log, and tried to unlodge it with a long branch but couldn't get it to budge.
plus the pond its floating in is basically a sewage pond
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Post by dhextremecb on Dec 2, 2007 19:23:04 GMT -5
I'll hop in DaveP's boat on this one! "If your going to shoot something, you need to make EVERY possible effort to recover it and utilize it! "
Quite frankly, that's YOUR responsibility as a hunter.
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Post by vinnieb on Dec 2, 2007 19:36:12 GMT -5
guys i need other suggestions. i don't have a boat as a option. i don't own a boat nor does any one i know(well not one that i could drag through the woods back to a pond)
i spent a hour and a half trying to find another way to get her out before it started raining.
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Post by deerman1966 on Dec 2, 2007 19:50:13 GMT -5
hey, vinnie i hunt swamps a lot and have deer go into deep water. If no boat try this get about 30 ft of 3/8 to 1/2 rope tie a 1 pound lead weight on it about 3 inchs above the weight tie a trebble hook on cut one side of trebble off ( it helps if you miss) wade as far as you can pitch it over her when you feel the weight bump her give a quick jerk. it works..
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bigjim
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You cant kill'em sitting at home
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Post by bigjim on Dec 2, 2007 19:56:18 GMT -5
I have hunted a lot of wetlands and here is what we did in NC. I have an old queen size air mattress that uses a small battery operated pump to blow up. It is very light and we would leave it in the truck and just pack it in when we needed it. Use a small ore it works and is light. Get out to it tie a rope on it and head back, pull it in when you get to shore. I do all i can to get a dead deer.
I cant help but think back to your first post on this and from the way you set it up it didn't sound like you had the best opportunity for a shot in the first place. I was not there and don't know any more that what you told us. I pass on a lot because of just not having the shot that i think will drop them quick or the right amount of light.
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Post by Hardcorehunter on Dec 2, 2007 20:04:55 GMT -5
If you recover it I still wouldn't eat it. Sewage tends to spoil meat.
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Post by reed on Dec 2, 2007 20:24:29 GMT -5
I know I am hard of hearing, but my eyes are still good and I can't see a deer in the pic. Could some one give me some directions?
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Post by Hardcorehunter on Dec 2, 2007 20:28:31 GMT -5
Top right of his hat.
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Post by davep on Dec 2, 2007 21:50:11 GMT -5
Heck, now you REALLY need a bowfishing rig!
I ate the one that I fetched out of the Potomac.
Now THAT'S sewage!
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Post by osprey on Dec 3, 2007 8:28:43 GMT -5
You'll still get wet and nasty, but try a swimming pool raft from walmart. Light enough to carry in, blow it up, paddle out, tie a rope on her, paddle back in, then drag her to dry ground.
If it's the second day she's been floating, though, I wouldn't eat her, but something to plan for next time...
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Post by vinnieb on Dec 3, 2007 20:20:27 GMT -5
i tried the fishing rod idea. i hooked her in the back leg and pulled but instead of pulling her straight it hooked more onto the log. i yanked and yanked and eventually broke the line. i tried again with a regular hook as i used my only treble the first time and could get it to hook up
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