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Have to see it to believe it!

I once shot a bear with the bow with a clean pass through. When we were caping it out my buddy said "Here's your broadhead." To which I replied "Not mine, we already have my arrow." There was an old Bear style broadhead wedged between the vertebra of the bear's neck just below the skull. It was an obviously old wound with the area all scar tissue and calcified around it. The bear showed no obvious sign of injury to me before I shot him but regardless that thing had to be miserable with that wedged in his neck like that. These critters are incredibly tough.
 
It’s unbelievable how cruel some people can be to animals. To shoot a deer just to remove the rack is unacceptable. Just last week I found a buck with its head removed on public land next to the parking area. Another one on the other side of the trail but it was decomposed so bad it was hard to tell if it was a buck or a doe. It did looked like they cut out the back straps.
 
Weldabeast said:
It's easy to see that and think somebody was being a D but who's to say the shot was on target and the deer moved....
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Dude. I tell you, they are INCREDIBLY quick. @GCTerpfan was there with me a couple weeks ago when we recovered the spike I shot. We watched the video later and the deer actually spun around in the last 4' of arrow travel, just prior to arrow arrival. It ended up going through the opposite side of where I was aiming.
 
Just to clarify. This buck was not found dead. It came in to my coworker’s stand and was acting completely normal. My coworker shot the buck with his gun and when he recovered the deer is when he saw the arrow.
 
My guess is a crossbow bolt and the Nock fell out after a while. It’s too clean cut to be a full length arrow. 131north has an idea there with a field point. I would be curious to know if it was a legit broadhead as well.
 
If it was a crossbow bolt I highly doubt the fletching would’ve came off in the time from it being shot till killed with a gun. I’ve found arrows years old at an archery range that the fletching was still on or at least remains of it.
 
10essee said:
If it was a crossbow bolt I highly doubt the fletching would’ve came off in the time from it being shot till killed with a gun. I’ve found arrows years old at an archery range that the fletching was still on or at least remains of it.
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Yes left alone the fletchings would still be on, but with him rubbing trees and moving through the thick stiff im sure it didn't take long to tare those right off.
 
Bowtie747 said:
Yea, stuff like this and the buck left fully intact with the skull plate missing on a WMA I hunt really gets to me….
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Well, on cases like that I give them benefit of the doubt. He could have found it dead and not trusted the meat or shot it and not recovered it until days later when meat was spoiled. I’ve taken horns only from bucks I’ve found a few days after the shot.

I once found a pile of 3 does on public obviously rifle killed with only the back straps taken out too, so I know there’s scum out there.
 
I've heard of using a 410 and arrow to poach deer during archery season. Maybe this could offer an alternative explanation, regarding the clean end without fletchings.
 
Yeah that’s crazy and I was thinking bolt at first too. The field point makes sense and I’m curious bout that as well. Dang nice buck too!
 
Weldabeast said:
It's easy to see that and think somebody was being a D but who's to say the shot was on target and the deer moved....

What kind of broadhead?
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yea I mean people trying to take shots like Josh Bowmar at 120yds doesn’t help much either…
 
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