A few years back, a couple of guys were hunting some land adjoining my brothers. One of them shot a 10 pointer and together the the 2 of them searched onto my brothers land, never finding the buck, couple days laterthe buck was foundwhile making the second outside round with a combine cutting soybeans. They never asked permission to look for the buck, had they done so, i know myself, my brother, and several friends would have come to aid them in the search. These guys had exclusive permission to hunt the land from which the buck was shot. I just always felt like they at least should have made a phone call and told my brother of the lost buck. atleast They did search. unlike............

2 years ago while rifle hunting some of his land, my brother saw several deer and a nice buck come out of the trees across the property line from him. as he was watching the deer, he heard a single rifle shot, he saw the buck hunch up and knew he was hit, the buck ran off about 300 yards to another patch of timber, the hunter who shot the buck never went to see if he hit it, not too look for blood or anything. guess he figured he had missed after seeing him run off so far, *shrug* my brother went and talked to the landowner who allowed him to look for the buck which he found just inside the timber where he last saw him, dead. they called the game warden and were issued a salvage tag. it was a nice buck with about a 6" droptine!

Guess what i am saying, if i couldnt get ahold of the landowner, i would call the warden so as to have his blessing and to have him oversee the extraction. and if i couldnt easily find it, i would continue to try to notify the landowner just to let him know he might find a dead deer.