Doesn't matter if it's a doe or a booner. I still owe it to the animal to recover it. This type of question came up at a Bowhunting course I took last fall. I took the course so I could get license in other states. Anyway the same type of question was asked. We had to answer the questions in front of everyone and that included a CO and the instructors.

After about half an hour of people honestly answering what they'd do in the situation a deputy CO chimed in and told us basically that Game Law requires you to retreive you animal, but at the same time they (CO's) have no authority to let you or help you with getting your deer from posted property. But he also said that if you went and got your deer on posted property they( co's/Police) could not prosecute you. The landowner could press charges but the likelyhood of conviction would be about zero.

We all thought why the heck would a Co tell us this at a course supposedly teaching us laws and ethics of bowhunting? Why do you think he told us?