ORIGINAL: GMMAT
I just want to know what the consensus is for protocol. I'm serious. If I keep this buck/rack as my own....I'll tag it and be done with buck hunting this year. If I don't tag it......he ain't mine...and I'll keep hunting.
I just wanna know what the right thing to do is.
TEmbry....I'd rather have closure and know.....v. an unknown. If a deer is dead, anyways (there's definitely a dead buck. That I know).....I'd like to put some closure to this.
Would you tag a road kill? If you kill an unedible deer in most states the DNR will give you another tag. I don't think I'd try to get all bent out of shape about tagging a deer that died weeks ago and the meat was wasted. It's a FOUND deer. If the law there says to have the rack you must tag the deer, well hell, I'm leaving him lay. The rack is nothing special and hunting is much more fun than looking at the one that got away.