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Wildlife Leaflet 295 
os 54, Ill. | July 1947} 
DEER MORTALITY FROM GUNSHOT WOUNDS 
By W. Leslie Rovinette, Biologist, Wildlife Investigations on Public Lands 
Division of Wildlife Research 
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INTRODUCTION 
Managers of deer herds are frequently confronted with the need for more 
information regarding the extent of losses sustained by deer through the ani- 
mals becoming crippled during the hunting season. Information on this subject 
in the literature is very limited. 
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Sanders (1939) any concluded from sample cruises on the Chequamegon ja eloned 
Forest in Wisconsin in 1937 that there were 68 wounded or dead, legal and il- 
legal, bucks, does, and fawns left in the woods for each 160 legal bueks re- 
moved from the forest. In 1938 a similar survey gave 60 as the loss through 
crippling for each 100 bucks removed, 

Leopold (1933) said that replies to a questionnaire sent to a list of 

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