deer missing back strap ( I hope this is ok to post ) may be to much fore some

[Jonathon]

Dave R But that can’t be a bullet or arrow right? I think tim cahill is right, it’s gotta be a truck or something, look how clean the edges are. But your point is 100% valid in my mind, wounding an animal and not harvesting it is something I think almost anyone would work to avoid. And yes, really crazy way to see how resilient deer can be.

[Joe Hell]

Jonathon I know this might start an argument but…backstrap? Everyone has a different opinion of what this actually is. Butchers that I’ve talked to balk at the term. Opinions!?

[Chef]

Joe Hell Einstein stated that the mark of an intelligent man is to call things by their proper name. Not being a meet processor or butcher, I don’t know much about that muscle. Regardless, I know I like to grill them as steaks.

[tim cahill]

technically it is a loin

[Jonathon]

Joe Hell Yeah it is a loin but I think the term has become so main stream that most people just go with it. Butchers are probably a little more sensitive to it than most as they spend way more times hands on with primals and subprimals than most.

[Joe Hell]

Jonathon For sure! I am not a butcher by any means but my coworkers know a thing or two. I worked in the hunting industry (archery) for 12 years and that term was thrown around constantly. What gets me is how many hunters contact our shop to process their game. We can only touch USDA slaughtered animals so that’s not a service we offer. I’m not a hunter but if I was, I’d have much greater satisfaction processing the animal myself.

[GWG8541]

tim cahill That is unbelievable. If you read the comments, it was still alive 24 hours after receiving the wound. I’ve tracked deer several miles after putting a great shot on them, but this is something else.

[Jonathon]

GWG8541 That video constantly stuns me. I am hoping it is a combine or a truck or something that hit it just right and not some psycho out there doing that. Would give us all a bad name.

[Buckmaster]

I hope someone finished it off before it got to miserable with infection and other misery…looks like some farm equipment whacked it. ??

[GWG8541]

Buckmaster The person who originally posted the video believes it was a combine. Apparently a neighboring farm was combining when the video was captured. I also hope someone put that buck out of his misery.

[Nicolai]

As a farmer-hunter most definitely a farm accident. At times they can get way to close for comfort. Usually not the big ones, but they can jump to late to escape. I have run several bambies through the haybine in the spring. Totally ruins the day.