Comments on: Reid Taylor scores his first deer

By: Tom Caceci

Tom Caceci — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 03:52:15 +0000

That deer had peritonitis. An inflammation of the membrane that covers the internal organs. Could have been due to a wound with a shotgun pellet or a puncture of the body wall in some other way. It could even have been caused by ingesting a sharp object like a piece of wire. This happens to cattle. It probably was a fairly recent event; maybe a few days duration. The deer would have been in considerable pain; the hunter put him out of it. He would have died within a few more days.

By: Dillon

Dillon — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:29:09 +0000

Contact the Virginia department of game and inland fisheries. Their biologist can tell you what the disease is.

By: Ranger217

Ranger217 — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:58:43 +0000

First off, congratulations, Reid, on a great shot!

I have seen something like this before, but the deer in this case had obviously been wounded a few days earlier. When my hunting buddy began skinning it and saw alot of yellow-green puss, the processing stopped right there. The carcass was left to the area wildlife.

I can’t see how an apparently uninjured deer would have an internal infection like that, but it is pretty disturbing.

By: Ralph Barton

Ralph Barton — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:34:30 +0000

Way to go Reid on your great Buck!!! Congratulations!

By: John Hopkins

John Hopkins — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 22:25:47 +0000

Check out this thread from 2010 in another state…

http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=326889

Sounds like maybe a shotgun wound from an earlier unsuccessful hunter?

By: Stu

Stu — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:16:46 +0000

Good work Reid!