DaveInOh,

I would like to say congrats on doing the right thing...even if you were bending the law. A few years back I saw a fawn get hit by a car as I was coming home from my stand after dark. I stopped to see the deer and to my amazement, it was still alive. When I got home I called Missouri Dept. of Cons. They were understandably a bit busy being the first week of gun season. They said to call the police and have them put it down. Since we lived outside of city limits, the city police couldn' t come out and the sheriff wanted to take up to 3 hours (if at all) to do it. I decided to go back and take care of it myself, even if it meant paying a fine for " harvesting an animal after legal shooting hours."

Sometimes you have to follow the INTENT of the law and not the LETTER of the law.