Who gets it?
12-15-2014, 05:16 PM
#71
Fork Horn
Join Date: Apr 2014
Posts: 153
12-15-2014, 06:30 PM
#72
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Colorado
Posts: 9,557
12-15-2014, 06:34 PM
#73
Spike
Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 46
I would say the landowner was more accomodating than he had to be by agreeing to flip a coin. Even so, with a kid involved I would have conceded the buck to the young hunter and congratulated him and helped him with the recovery from my land. But that is just me.
By rights, the buck was the landowner's and he did give the kid a shot. Kid just got beat in the coin toss. Sometimes a boy needs to take it like a man to learn how to be one.
By rights, the buck was the landowner's and he did give the kid a shot. Kid just got beat in the coin toss. Sometimes a boy needs to take it like a man to learn how to be one.
I agree with this. Luckily here in Iowa you do not need permission to enter someone property while tracking a deer. But the one thing you better not have in your possession is your weapon. Then it becomes illegal to cross into the next property.
12-16-2014, 11:06 AM
#74
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Comance county, OK
Posts: 11,408
Oklahoma formerly had a law that allowed trespass while "searching for lost livestock". Not surprisingly, poachers, slob hunters and scofflaws used "searching for my lost livestock" as an excuse when caught trespassing. "I have the gun because of the wild hogs" was sometimes added.
Not surprisingly, land owners got tired of trespassing hunters and the legislature rescinded that old law a couple years ago. My complaints helped end that law.
Not surprisingly, land owners got tired of trespassing hunters and the legislature rescinded that old law a couple years ago. My complaints helped end that law.
12-16-2014, 02:11 PM
#75
Typical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Pa.
Posts: 502
Nothin better than classic Carson with the great Buddy Hackett.
12-16-2014, 06:22 PM
#76
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Penns Woods
Posts: 1,628
Well fellas,
I guess a lot of it depends on what kind of person you are on the INSIDE. Personally, I would have given the kid his deer and congratulated him. No coin toss, no... IT'S ON MY PROPERTY etc. If the deer was mortally wounded it probably went down (or was staggering) in front of the hunter that finished it off, he just wanted to claim it. It never should have came down to a lowly coin toss as far as I'm concerned.
Similar scenario happened to my niece when she was 16 yrs. old. She punched a 6 pt. buck (her first deer) through the lungs with a .243 and it turned and ran over the ridge top out of sight. While her Dad (my brother-in-law) was helping her track it, they heard a shot. When they crested the ridge they saw another hunter bent over the deer getting ready to gut it. My brother in law said the guy immediately went on the defensive and shouted "It's my deer!" My brother in law said the deer had a bullet wound just behind the shoulder and a bit high, but obviously through the lungs. He told the man..."That's my daughters deer." The guy said "Oh no, it was moving right along when I shot it." My brother in law said the guy shot it through the neck as it lay on the ground. He told me he picked it's head up by the antlers and could see the dirt and leaves that blew back into the exit wound because the flatland @#$%$# shot it after it lay on the ground dead. It was not a property issue, they were both hunting on a farmer's property who had allowed both permission. BUT, after that incident, the farmer who owns the land told my brother in law that the other individual would no longer be welcome.
It takes all kinds. Personally, I have no use for someone that will take a deer from another hunter... especially a young hunter or someone that's never harvested a deer yet.
BPS
I guess a lot of it depends on what kind of person you are on the INSIDE. Personally, I would have given the kid his deer and congratulated him. No coin toss, no... IT'S ON MY PROPERTY etc. If the deer was mortally wounded it probably went down (or was staggering) in front of the hunter that finished it off, he just wanted to claim it. It never should have came down to a lowly coin toss as far as I'm concerned.
Similar scenario happened to my niece when she was 16 yrs. old. She punched a 6 pt. buck (her first deer) through the lungs with a .243 and it turned and ran over the ridge top out of sight. While her Dad (my brother-in-law) was helping her track it, they heard a shot. When they crested the ridge they saw another hunter bent over the deer getting ready to gut it. My brother in law said the guy immediately went on the defensive and shouted "It's my deer!" My brother in law said the deer had a bullet wound just behind the shoulder and a bit high, but obviously through the lungs. He told the man..."That's my daughters deer." The guy said "Oh no, it was moving right along when I shot it." My brother in law said the guy shot it through the neck as it lay on the ground. He told me he picked it's head up by the antlers and could see the dirt and leaves that blew back into the exit wound because the flatland @#$%$# shot it after it lay on the ground dead. It was not a property issue, they were both hunting on a farmer's property who had allowed both permission. BUT, after that incident, the farmer who owns the land told my brother in law that the other individual would no longer be welcome.
It takes all kinds. Personally, I have no use for someone that will take a deer from another hunter... especially a young hunter or someone that's never harvested a deer yet.
BPS
12-17-2014, 04:34 AM
#77
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Comance county, OK
Posts: 11,408
Personally, I have no use for someone that will take a deer from another hunter... especially a young hunter or someone that's never harvested a deer yet.
Hunting is dying out in many states for a variety of reasons. Our sport needs young hunters.
12-17-2014, 07:48 AM
#78
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Virginia / West Virginia
Posts: 4,906
