I agree, and as I stated; "KUDO's to your friend" and "Your friend did what I would hope all of us would do out of respect for the animal; end the suffering." I have made no ill statements toward him and apoligize if you have mistaken anything I originally replied.

The reason I made the statement concerning the CO or LEA's is because of the following: There is no way of knowing how an animal gets injured without witnessing the event. Could the injury have occurred due to a car-deer collision? In many states, Indiana is one, only a CO or LEA can put an injured animal down that was not known to have been injured by hunting methods. Legally that is.

I found this out the hard way after a buddies wife called after hitting a button buck in the head on her way to work one morning and said the deer was still alive and breathing. I worked second shift at the time so I went to the scene.

I arrive to find the animal very much alive and trying to raise its' head of the ground; his neck was broken a couple of vertebre behind the skull. This was during gun season, but I had my bow in the car so I finished him with a arrow through the lungs. Less than ten minutes later, nearly an hour after the accident, the sheriff arrived and then proceded to chew me a new rearend for doing what I believed at the time to be ethical for the deers' sake. Our hunting regulations booklets contain no such information stating the requirements in this type situation.

I could have lost my archery equipment, hunting prileges for up to five years and my vehicle. Fortunately I went away with a good reaming and a newly learned lesson.

If OK has no restrictions concerning downing injured animals, great. My comments directed at CO and LEA intervention was not intended to defame your friend or prolong the deers' agony. That was just my opinion; if you still have doubt, read my first paragraph again.







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