Legal issues aside, would you be willing to practice "catch and release" hunting. For example, if your state allowed you to hunt deer with a tranquilizer gun, which immobilized the animal long enough for a photo-op, and you would then simply make sure that the deer recovered and climb back into the stand.

If you took a deer that you wanted to take home, you could then cleanly dispatch the aenesthetized deer, while he was "sleeping."

Any thoughts? I was just kicking around some ideas after reading the "drugged deer" thread on the bowhunting board.

I think I'd support that type of hunting. It gives hunters a chance to "shoot" more deer, without necessarily removing them from the population.

Obviously, if you took enough photographs and measurements, a reproduced set of antlers could be made for a mount. Just a novel idea I had, and I thought I'd pass it along for some input.