{"id":1981,"date":"2013-11-15T17:46:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T17:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/?p=1981"},"modified":"2023-11-04T15:21:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T15:21:15","slug":"zombie-deer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/?p=1981","title":{"rendered":"Zombie Deer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ArcheryMed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ArcheryMed-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"ArcheryMed\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ArcheryMed-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ArcheryMed.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>First off, going for a headshot on a deer with a bow is idiotic. Your chances, even if you hit the brain, of a clean kill are somewhere between slim and none.<\/p>\n<p>Second, this is also why I don&#8217;t do headshots on deer with a rifle either. It&#8217;s too easy to miss, and if you don&#8217;t miss cleanly you have a zombie deer with grievous but not immediately life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>So when I see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/morris\/index.ssf\/2013\/11\/finally_nj_biologist_find_deer_and_remove_arrow_from_its_head.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">articles like this (warning: graphic)<\/a>, I just have to shake my head.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/morris\/index.ssf\/2013\/11\/finally_nj_biologist_find_deer_and_remove_arrow_from_its_head.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A hunter&#8217;s arrow that had pierced both sides of a young deer&#8217;s head has been successfully removed<\/a>, according to state officials and the woman who first notified authorities about the animal.<\/p>\n<p>Staff from New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife tranquilized the deer Saturday afternoon in the backyard of Susan Darrah&#8217;s Rockaway Township home, removed the arrow, treated the wound and released it back in the wild, Darrah said today. DEP Spokesman Larry Hajna confirmed the arrow removal. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shots to the vital area of a deer just behind the front legs, whether from a bow or rifle, are always fatal. Don&#8217;t risk injuring a deer by trying for a head shot. It just isn&#8217;t worth it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First off, going for a headshot on a deer with a bow is idiotic. Your chances, even if you hit the brain, of a clean kill are somewhere between slim and none. Second, this is also why I don&#8217;t do headshots on deer with a rifle either. It&#8217;s too easy to miss, and if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,62,4],"tags":[89,136,112],"class_list":["post-1981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archery","category-ethics","category-hunting","tag-archery-2","tag-ethics","tag-hunting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3123,"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions\/3123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amongtheleaves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}