First Deer

Obituary

White Tailed Deer of Tremont IL shot through

the back of the lungs by hunter Javan Plattner

on October 8th, 2011.  She dropped on impact

but shortly thereafter was back up again; she

made a bee-line for the woods and then dropped

ten yards from the hunters stand.  The hunter

watched as the deer got up and stumbled into

the woods and out of sight.  The deer died within

thirty yards of the hunters stand.  She was succeeded

by two older fawns who upon finding their mother dead

ran away with a snort.  The butchering will be held

on either Monday or Tuesday at the Plattner home.

 

Please do not read the remainder of this blog if you can’t handle pictures of a dead deer being dissected!

The deer showed up just in the nick of time as it was almost too late to shoot.  When I saw that I hit the dear I got a big rush of adrenaline (sometimes called buck fever) and I was shaking all over; Jared was with me and he was the same way. He called dad on the walkie-talkie and in an excited voice said “Dad, Javan shot a deer!  He really shot a deer!  We sat in the stand for about 45 minutes and then tracked it. Dad stepped it out from where the first blood was to where the tree stand was and it was about 60 yards - 180 feet.

 

Transportation

 

In this picture you can see where the bullet entered.

Field dressing and a little anatomy lesson for the younger children.

Because it has been warm we had to cut it into big chunks that  could go in our refrigerator that night.  Dad and I stayed up late doing that while the rest except mom were in there beds.

Hunting was a fun experience hopefully there will be more deer in the future.

Javan