It really sickens me that some of these scum share the same woods with us. I took some deer that were smaller than I thought over the years (ground shrink), but I would never even consider leaving them to rot. These deer are usually the most tender eating anyway. I have met those that do leave them though. The most memorable was a guy who was poaching the property I hunt. He had just poached the trophy I'd been legally hunting for months while I had killed a small buck. He asked me if I was going to bother dragging it out--should just leave it there. I told him that I was as he shrugged. He was there again the next day to take additional illegal kills (we were allowed just one at the time). He had NO LISCENSE, NO PERMISSION, NO ORANGE and most lacking of all--NO ETHICS.

Today's small bucks are tomorrow's trophies.