I regret not adding the exit wound scar in this video, but if you go to our Facebook page and Scroll down our timeline to when we posted this video you can see the 6" Scar pic in the comments section that we posted. This is 100% the same deer from previous year, not only from scar, but facial features and antler formation. facebook.com/teamantleraddicts/

if i did that i’d stick to fishing

If you can’t kill a deer with a 7mm mag you’re doing something wrong

That deer earned a free pass for the needless suffering it endured from your first shot. You couldnt pay me to shoot him again out of respect. unbelievable.

Imagine shooting the neck when you have a perfect quartering too. 🤦‍♀️

As a lifelong hunter, I know sometimes a bad shot is made for some unknown reason, or because something unplanned happened. When I saw that buck standing quartered to, I was thinking surely he won't take that shot......but he did! I would have waited for that deer to present a vital shot, because there was plenty of time. That was just a bad judgement call, and an unethical shot in my opinion. Next time calm down and wait for a clean shot. Our magnificent wildlife deserves the utmost respect, and no less than our best marksmanship.

The gay music would have eventually killed the deer

I thought y’all were gonna give the deer it’s honor for surviving lmao

The deer was aligned perfectly. Why would you not take a heart/lung shot? For any competent shooter it would be nigh on impossible to miss at only 120 yds. Shocking!

Seems like someone needs to learn how to shoot.

A quietness at camp because everyone knew you took a unethical shot and nobody wanted to tell you. I don’t understand why people take neck shots.

Deer: *survives getting shot Hunter: bet you can’t do it again

i’ll never have respect for people who hunt in fenced areas.

Terrible shot placement had a 120 yard broad side shot and almost missed this viedo is what makes all the liberals want to ban hunting practice makes perfect

i would have let him walk out of respect

He obviously had a reason to live if he survived two 7mm shots this deer is a deer to respect and let him live. That is 100 percent is a deer to walk.

Imagine losing a high fence deer to a bad shot

Im 12 and i have killed deer and i know your supposed to shoot them right behind the shoulder terrible shot

I am a hunter killed my first deer when I was five we never shoot deer in the neck because of this this makes me a bit mad we practice heart and lung shot

Time to put away your "hunting gear" boys 7mm mag you shoulda dropped that deer in his tracks awful shot. You should be ashamed to make this video for real.

99% of comments: This guy can’t aim 1% of the comments: This one

If "N" is a 20 yd neck shot & "Y" is a 2nd shot missed at maybe 40 yds then that means "N" = keep your ass out of the field until you either get that gun sighted in better or practice more with it.

Good example why ya don't take head and neck shots. I have seen deer running around with their jaws blown off cause someone thought they were an expert shot. Pretty poor decision.

Honestly the music fits. With that bad shot before, you are the villain in this.

I just shot a deer bow season. After looking at him he had a bullet hole about the size of a 22 in his neck. Really made me upset that people do this. That’s why people want to ban hunting

Well thats the problem with these high fence deer farms. You already dont have any respect for hunting and the deer.

I hope with everything in me the neck shot wasn't on purpose. If I threw a shot that bad with a 7mm mag from 120 yards I would give up the sport.

I would not have shot him the second time. He's earned a long life, and those are the kind of genes you want carried forward.

*1st shot* Deer:”You should’ve aim for the head.” *snaps hooves and scatters away.* *2nd shot* Deer’s mind: “shit! Shouldn’t have said that.”

That deer definitely deserved way mor respect and a pass you don’t because you don’t know how to shoot one ;(

The title to this video should be "why am I hunting if I'm shooting a mature buck in the neck and not in the vitals?"

I was hoping you would say he earned his life. That was one amazing badass buck. I can't believe with that much blood loss that he had enough left to get near as far as he did. That deer lost a huge amount of blood. Nice buck.

I hunt with a 7mm and i can honestly say im saddend by this poor excuse of a hunter. That shot placement was so bad you've proven wrong the old addage. When you get shot with a 7mm rem mag you apparently don't always stay shot anymore. You couldn't have been any louder or had any more of an advantage and you still took a shit shot. Way to go bud.

shoot for the vitals man that shot was ridiculous

Heart, lungs, vitals, center mass!!!! I mean c’mon you damn rookies!!!

Great story of a great buck.. He would have got a pass after surviving that ordeal.. He earned it..

As a fellow young hunter (14) I can’t stand watching this, I am 14 and have enough respect to let that deer live considering what it’s been through

Should of kept the story to yourself....

If it's the same deer? Why didn't you show the scar from the year before? And by the way. Crappy decision to go for a neck shot.

Out of respect I would have let him live he earned it!

I am blown away. What an incredible video and evidence..Because I bet if you tell this story without the video many people would not have believe you...WOW!!!! I tell my friends all the time (those that do not like or understand hunting or the outdoors) that hunting is like a new adventure everytime you go out because you just don't know what you going to see and/or experience.

Yeah, I wouldn't show my face either

Had a perfect heart and lung shot on this deer why take the risk on the neck shot

The buck stopped and turned like “you gotta be kidding, you missed”

Once that round is on its way you shouldn’t even have to think about reloading. It should be instinctive.

That is why you aim for the heart.

thanks for showing me to never take a neck shot when I'm in the stand...

Dam great story ,great footage you gentlemen did a fantastic job telling it both narrating video and that awsome music was great thanks for taking us through a vivid experience of the hunt of this true majestic white tail deer thanks indeed new south Texas subscriber!👍

everyone at camp was quiet because you can't shoot and made the deer suffer because of your lack of skill lmao

You should have spared him man ! He survived your first one ! He’s a fighter ! Wish this video’s ending was something else.

What projectiles where you using for the neck shots? Bonded bullets? I had the same issue with a Sambar using coreloks. Dropped him but he kept getting back up. The corelokt bullets just punched though. Id rather use them on the vitals. Got me thinking, is mine still out there?..

That deer deserved to live . I couldn't have done it , he was beautiful.

Don't think I would have shot him again if he went through all of that the first time and lived He's a tough one, good breeder 2, deserves more, but that's just 1 mans opinion. So where did you get him that time, he went down fast!

That was a bad shot on a good deer

Imagine saying unedited then in the vid they do a play back edit

For a second I really thought you would let him go.

Sad, he deserved to stay living..... He WAS so special

you're not going to believe it but the same exact thing happened to me last season.i'm hoping he survived and will turn out to be a carbon copy of you're last season,thanks for the hope,and that was a truly great video only a true deer hunter knows that sad feeling of a lost buck,especially one of that caliber.

Man this buck couldn't catch a break lol

This deer was like wearin an armor lvl4

I'm 62 and been hunting whitetail deer in South Texas for over 50yrs. Took my first 11 point buck at 9yrs old. All my shots have been little above shoulder closer to the heart. Never in my life or friends of mine do we ever shoot at the neck. Plus most of our shots are over 200 plus yards, taking a chance with a neck shot and miss or not hit them right is not an option, plus I don't use deer blinds I sit next to sendero's.

Tough animals, but a very unethical shot to take.

The work I put in and pray to see even a spike and there’s people like this getting a chance at this beautiful animal. What am I doing wrong?

That buck survived after a hit like that just to get killed in the end. You should have let him live and pass on those survivor genetics. He definitely deserved that respect.

I think the deer deserves to live after suffering a year !!!

looks like your typical pay to hunt place if you ask me. judging by the fence and huge abundance of deer and the piss poor shot anyways. also the chances of that deer surviving that shot to the neck is very slim in my opinion. infection would most definitely take over, especially in a wound from a gun shot like that. this could easily be a different buck from the same blood line but i highly doubt it survived a wound like that.

What rifle did you kill em with after the 7mm wound i want a 7mm rem mag in the browning ab3 26 inch barrel

Dang that just goes to show how tough whitetail deer are

I highly doubt that is the same deer

Should have shown him some respect & let him live.

he doesn’t deserve that buck with the way he’s shooting

Deer: imma bad bitch you cant kill me

The neck contrary to what many people think is a poor place to intentionally hit an animal. Unless you hit a main artery, that animal can and will likely run for a while. Depending on your bullet construction, it may not have had enough time to expand properly either. Way better off aiming at the heart/lung region and wait for him to present a better shot.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Mine is this, there is NO WAY that Buck survived. There is NO WAY the 2018 buck is the same deer. Again, believe what you will. I for one believe the coyotes got the first one.

Looks like daddy had to show you how it's done hahaha

My dude getting shot and just shakes it off like it's nothing xD

A neck shot at 120 yards with a 7mm and the deer walked 🤣 NOW THAT'S JUST PATHETIC!!

Should of let him live sins he survived the first time he was a good stud

Never would have shot that deer a second time out of respect for what you put it through

Dude people choose 7mm mag for Grizzly. This is cruel. Furthermore you missed your second shot causing the deer to run into the wild with it's neck leaking pints of blood all over the wilderness. Don't hunt if you can't shoot straight. Go to the range.

Tame deer with a high power. That's sad .

may I ask why you shot him in the neck the 2017 season...you were planning on a shoulder mount right?

My favorite shot for deer is slightly quartering to/quartering to with the shot placed at the front "crease" of the shoulder center mass of body. It breaks the humerus, and the spine is near center body and at its lowest point in the body there and the heart, aorta, and lungs are in line with the bullet and its fragments depending on what type bullet you use. I have never had a deer do anything but drop straight down with this quartering to shot, and I like that most of any fragmentation of lead will be headed into/toward an area of the body that I won't be eating other than the heart. Until I moved out west, I never paid attention to bullet types and what they are designed to do at different distances, because 99% of my shots were inside of 100 yards in the SE. Now that I'm out here trying to figure out the best cartridge and bullet combo for long range elk and mule deer, I'm realizing that the bullets for this purpose are designed to fragment out at long distances and at the typical slower impact speeds at those long distances. I'm reading that these bullets (bergers for ex) will not fragment well when punching through soft tissue at the high velocities they are traveling closer to the muzzle and can and will punch a hole straight through at 50 out to even 200 yards. They are not designed to mushroom and transfer that energy like the hunting rounds I grew up shooting back east. If that bullet mushroomed much at all, the hydrostatic shock should have disrupted its spinal column communication and put that deer down right there. Looks to me like the hunter was using a bullet designed for long range hunting and designed to fragment and not to classically mushroom...and by the time it was starting to open up and fragment, it was clearing the opposite side of the neck expending majority of its energy in the superficial exit wound and ground behind the deer. There was enough tissue/muscle damage at the exit wound to bleed pretty good, but not enough blood loss to kill it. Reminds me of deer shot with a broadhead in front leg muscle only...enough blood to follow with confidence for a mile only to be disappointed in the end. What kind of bullet was being used? I take neck shots sometimes with my 270 core-lokts, but if this is a similar bullet, I may rethink future neck shots.

I’m glad that you had another chance at getting him

SPOILER ALERT. The final shot is not on video. Way to drop the ball at the end.

Antler addicts? “Maim addicts” would be a much better fit with the animal cruelty I just witnessed in this video.

I would have let it live like “damn...respect “

My friends and I have hunted South Texas deer for longer than any of us want to admit and we’ve learned with the rutted up necks, you have to make a perfect neck shot. We don’t take neck shots any longer. We’ve all lost a couple through the years. Best to wait for the better shot.

Too bad the story isnt true and the deer at the end isnt the deer in the beginning. That hole from the first shot would have left a mark on that deer had it really survived and you purposely didnt show the right side of the deer at the end. I cant stand liars. Too bad you never found the first deer, what a waste.

I don’t understand how I just don’t

With that shot placement, it should have been after dark before you even thought about tracking that buck.

Neck shots are good but that is a big buck and a perfect shoulder shot

my guy thinks hes a poet lol

I see someone needing to go back to the shooting range for some practice, you clearly didn't settle into your shot, was a bit rushed. Did you consider what was even beyond your target? breath men, take your time, calm down before you shoot, we owe it to the game we hunt.

Awesome job!

The round went right through of course he survived.

I used to love hunting, but could not stand it after i turned 49- today i don't hunt animals for sport anymore

Your first bullet didnt kill him I'll let him go just for respect he was a survivor I would tip my hat I let that big boy walk

WOW!! What a story!! Thanks for sharing!!

I would've pass this buck in respect. This is the gene of bucks we need in our farms. Strong and fit. It's your choice though. Great buck by the way.