The buck apparently didn’t stop anywhere
Posted by Tim Budig, November 11, 2009 
Comments(1)
Comments(1)
Gov. Tim Pawlenty today said the buck he shot at Saturday (Nov. 7) morning at the 7th Annual Governor’s Deer Opener has not been found.
Six to eight people — “including me,” he said — looked for the better part of two days for the deer but the blood trail dried up, said Pawlenty, who left the opener on Saturday for a political engagement in Iowa.
It’s not uncommon, explained Pawlenty, to “graze” a deer hunting and that’s what happened.
The governor said he took a 175 yard to 200 yard shot at the buck.
“I do it from time to time,” Pawlenty said of practicing shooting.
A brother had sighted in the scope on the rifle he used deer hunting, he said.
[...] been brutal: “Gov. Pawlenty shoots deer, leaves it to die,” wrote one blogger. “The buck apparently didn’t stop anywhere,” wrote [...]