Chamois

So I am heading back down from a successful hunt, with a pack full of venison. Coming up the path towards me is a young chamois buck. He's walking slowly, and hasn't yet seen me. I drop the pack shoulder my rifle, take aim.....and miss. I was still blowing hard from the previous hill. I sat and watched the wee guy who walked forward about 5m then sat down in the grass. By the time I got there he was dead. I thought I must have hit him after all, but no wound, he is completely whole.
What do I do? Could it have been poisoned? I don't want good meat to go to waste, but also don't want to eat poison haha. I'll stick around for 20 mins or so before I carry on my merry way.Attachment 112037

Must of died from heart attack
Did you bleed it - open him up and inspect gut

No I just left it, eyes were already white by the time I got there, which would have been 20 seconds max, so im thinking it wasn't a healthy animal. Also prob why it didn't see me. I was upwind too

Very odd

That’s a tahr

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Originally Posted by jknavara

That’s a tahr

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Haha shows what I know!

Has blood coming from its mouth or nose so it's been hit, pretty hard to find the bullet hole in their fluffy coats especially if it's only an entry hole and no exit.

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Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

Has blood coming from its mouth or nose so it's been hit, pretty hard to find the bullet hole in their fluffy coats especially if it's only an entry hole and no exit.

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How you see that - I just blew pic up and see 0
He right about the eye but !!

Yep, definitely looks like fresh blood there, so would say you hit it just fine. (or is it just red leaves?)
Slice it open and you'll find out quick enough..

I see the visible eye is clearly blind, which would explain why it didn't notice you. (not uncommon for the young ones to get pink eye and go blind from grass seeds etc)

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Originally Posted by StrikerNZ

Yep, definitely looks like fresh blood there, so would say you hit it just fine. (or is it just red leaves?)
Slice it open and you'll find out quick enough..

I see the visible eye is clearly blind, which would explain why it didn't notice you. (not uncommon for the young ones to get pink eye and go blind from grass seeds etc)

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Is that blood on ground - thought it foliage colour
He would have seen the blood if there was blood running out like that ???

Anyway - its definitely DEAD - and it turned into a Tahr :-)

Na zero blood, I checked very carefully. I ended up leaving it where it was. I was going to cut it open for a look, but couldn't find my knife. Hoping I haven't left it with the deer haha. Hoping its just at the bottom of my pack :)

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Originally Posted by CamFlatt

Na zero blood, I checked very carefully. I ended up leaving it where it was. I was going to cut it open for a look, but couldn't find my knife. Hoping I haven't left it with the deer haha. Hoping its just at the bottom of my pack :)

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You stay out of this discussion - we onto it and will have it all sorted by time you get that pack off your back
Wearing my boots I hope ??

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Originally Posted by Sarvo

You stay out of this discussion - we onto it and will have it all sorted by time you get that pack off your back
Wearing my boots I hope ??

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Haha good job :) Of course, second trip with them. Must say I am very impressed!

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Originally Posted by Sarvo

How you see that - I just blew pic up and see 0
He right about the eye but !!

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I see no blood. The opaque eye suggests MCF or Malignant Catarrhal Fever. Don't know if Tahr are susceptible but sure looks like it.

If you were using a 270 then a heart attack from being shot at with one in combination with MCF is very likely indeed

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Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

I see no blood. The opaque eye suggests MCF or Malignant Catarrhal Fever. Don't know if Tahr are susceptible but sure looks like it.

If you were using a 270 then a heart attack from being shot at with one in combination with MCF is very likely indeed

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A supressed 7mm08 :)

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Hit a chamois front on and not a spec of blood to be found. Neck was broken by the way it flopped around when I recovered it. Damage was all internal so without dressing it out you may not know. Close range and depending on what bullet there's a fair chance it blew up inside. Or there was something wrong with it. After all it changed from a chamois to a tahr by the time you got to it. A neat camouflage trick but going from one hunted species to another may not be the brightest move?

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Originally Posted by CamFlatt

A supressed 7mm08 :)

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Hell it was probably just coming over to have a latte with you

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Originally Posted by trooper90

Hell it was probably just coming over to have a latte with you

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Yeah I invited this guy over too, but he didn't like it [emoji1787]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...0413bf3bdb.jpg

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Originally Posted by CamFlatt

A supressed 7mm08 :)

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Ahh yes, the 7mm08 also known as the 'poor mans 270' Just knowing that you have dreamt of owning a 270 would cause the heart of a timid young Tahr to stop !!!

And that tahr does look very young....

Skin it to find the entry wound? I sometimes can't find the entry on an animal with a thick coat after a clean kill. Failing that maybe open up the guts to inspect for organ health?

A mate was hunting a farm a few years ago and spooked a red spiker, the thing ran into a corner of deer fencing and panicked not being able to get out and drop dead, he gutted it and carried it out and said it was good eating checked its liver and overal condition, must have had a heart attack

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Originally Posted by DLW

A mate was hunting a farm a few years ago and spooked a red spiker, the thing ran into a corner of deer fencing and panicked not being able to get out and drop dead, he gutted it and carried it out and said it was good eating checked its liver and overal condition, must have had a heart attack

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You failed DLW, to mention that your mate had a 270 in his possession at the time

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Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

You failed DLW, to mention that your mate had a 270 in his possession at the time

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Haha he had a 223 and didn't have to firer a shot at that deer to bring it home. Everyone knows that if you have a 270 nothing stands a chance, it's those silly 6.5s that have issues iv heard, never hunted with one but a mate of a mate of a mates brother shot a deer and it ran away so they can't be any good

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Originally Posted by DLW

Everyone knows that if you have a 270 nothing stands a chance, it's those silly 6.5s that have issues iv heard, never hunted with one but a mate of a mate of a mates brother shot a deer and it ran away so they can't be any good

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Exactly. I was saying the same thing to my neighbour the other day as I rode the horse and cart into town to pick up 2 guineas worth of salted pork and thruppence worth of tobaccy...these 270s are the only fit and proper calibre a man should use. Like these silly horseless carriages you see on the road now...any other newfangled calibre will NEVER take off, it's just a fad

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Originally Posted by Strummer

Exactly. I was saying the same thing to my neighbour the other day as I rode the horse and cart into town to pick up 2 guineas worth of salted pork and thruppence worth of tobaccy...these 270s are the only fit and proper calibre a man should use. Like these silly horseless carriages you see on the road now...any other newfangled calibre will NEVER take off, it's just a fad

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We 270 owners might be old fashioned, but we do know that when taking a horse and cart into town the horse is 'Driven' not ridden, the driver being on a seat at the front of the cart.
PS 270 owners don't need to buy their salt pork

No, I mean rode. I was back in the wagon with my 270 and the sheep. The wife drove us, with a Creedmoor on her lap. She lets me ride on the back if I've done all my chores.

Might have had a weak heart. The fright was a bit much for the poor thing.

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Originally Posted by headcase

Might have had a weak heart. The fright was a bit much for the poor thing.

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I'm inclined to agree headcase..and yes I do recall coming onto thar with similar eye problems while chasing around after them for a crust,,back on a past planet :)