I think that it would not be a recovery unless you are willing to put your tag on it.

"Bogobble-- I totally disagree on this one. I didn't find my 9'er till the
next mornin, and the yotes had already got to him. ya'll tellin
me I didn't recover my deer? of course i did! it wadn't my
intention for the yotes to find him first."

Bogobble has the exception to this rule as he found the deer in time to more than likely salvage the meat if the yotes hadn't got there first.

My brother-in-law has a friend who shot a nine point this year and didn't find it until 3 weeks later. He had pushed the deer to early and it ended up only 450 yards from his stand but he didn't find it until the yotes pulled it out of the brush. He had not ever shot a deer and got out of the stand too soon then pushed it too fast. He has the rack in his garage but failed to tag it. I don't consider this a recovery even though it is obviously the deer he shot.



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