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Huntersforge

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• May 16, 2026

• #1

Had been seeing this wee 3 legged buck on the camera a few times. Took him out last night. Poor wee bugger was as thin as a rake

 

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homer

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• May 16, 2026

• #2

My experience with 3 legged deer is that normally, they can lead a very healthy life, even the females go on to have young for many years. Its mainly back legs that i see missing, probably from being caught in fences id think.

 

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SOE

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• May 16, 2026

• #3

Got one i am monitorng at the moment ..a fallow doe...just evades the..kill zone had a few sight pictures just not a safe backstop front left severely lame,....will do it next week hopefully

 

Koenig

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• May 16, 2026

• #4

Difficult to gauge sometimes: I’ve seen healthy three legged Fallow, wound healed l, feeding and keeping up with the herd. Another one with a compound fracture of the rear knee joint (I suspected a .22 strike) that had to go. Any sign of infection (hard to see mostly) and I cull them.

 

Smellydog

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• May 16, 2026

• #5

Well done

 

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SOE

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• May 24, 2026

• #6

SOE said:

Got one i am monitorng at the moment ..a fallow doe...just evades the..kill zone had a few sight pictures just not a safe backstop front left severely lame,....will do it next week hopefully

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Sorted today....one hind leg double the diameter of the other...and lame in front.....hot day but she came out on cue..with good backstop...sad but i feel better now she is out of pain......management continues off season does it not.....

 

FISH BOY

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• May 25, 2026

• #7

Mercy cull on this poor chap last weekend.

Literally limped out of a bush 30ft infront of me and the dog and couched up looking at us - even the dog was like WTF.

 

Sol

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• May 25, 2026

• #8

God poor thing, thats in a right state.

 

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Chill 123

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• May 25, 2026

• #9

That's nature ? thank god you put it out of his misery .

Chill

 

John Gryphon

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• May 25, 2026

• #10

FISH BOY said:

Mercy cull on this poor chap last weekend.

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Good job. I wonder if that swollen fetlock/ankle full of bacteria/infection has something to do with it.

We ran a sambar hind for a full hour before she was shot. That was way back in the Buckland Valley circa `85. She had three legs only and her nearside fore was completely gone from at the body. She was in calf and roly poly.
These days I would have done a thorough inspection.