ORIGINAL: huntingson
I was looking through my trail cam pics from the last couple of weeks and I saw numerous pictures of a fawn doe whose rear left leg is dead. The leg is swollen, the hair is falling off, the skin is discolored and quite nasty. It is not mangled as if it was broken, it just seems it got some terrible infection that is definitely going to kill her. So, there inlies the dilema. Should I shoot her out of season, obviously breaking the law,to put her out of her misery, or do I just let nature take its course? I am really torn by this. It is hard to see an animal suffering like that. Especially one that I have such an affinity towards. So, what would you do?
I was going to post pics, but it really is something you don't want to see. It is disgusting.
so you basically have to go hunting out of season and target a specific deer to harvest. I doubt that you would get caught but I would call the game warden and see if you could get some sort of permit. I do NOT want to get caught doing something like that (even if it is the right thing to do for the deer) by our local warden!