RE: whose deer??
This can be a very touchy subject. I once shot a deer on my hunting lease and it ran onto another persons property. My lease was alot bigger than the adjacent property and the other land owner was mad that we hunted the boundries. I tried to explain to him that it is a 15 foot tall cutover and we could only hunt the roads and edges. He wasnt hearing it. The deer crossed onto his property and I called him to ask permission so to not get into any trouble. He then told me I couldnt retrieve it and to stay off his land because I probably shot it on his property. On the way back from my truck I heard his four wheeler in the woods. He was searching for my deer. When he saw my light at the property line he raced towards me and started yelling at me. I got into a heated argument with him. I then thaught better of the situation and called the game warden. When the game warden called him he tried to say it was his deer. He took me with him to find my deer. But it wasnt there. The warden later found it in the mans pole building laying on the floor. I got my buck back and got to laugh in the mans face later. The warden looked at the blood trail and could clearly see that the trail started well into my lease. The deer traveled only 70yds on to his property and that is where you could see the flat spot in the leaves and all of the blood with foer wheeler tracks.