Found a dead one BEFORE the opener!
 

This is the kind of thing that really irritates me. Yesterday (the day before Opening Day), I went to one of the areas that I've hunted for over 20 years just to trim out the approach trail I'll eventually use. When I got close to one of my favorite tree stand sites, I smelled a rotting smell . . . and started looking for what I KNEW was close by.

I found her. A HUGE doe lay about 25 yards from my best tree stand tree. She was smelling pretty bad, but had absolutely NO damage yet from other animals, etc. I estimated that she had been shot the evening before -- TWO days before the season. She was enormous and completely intact with no holes on the "up" side, so I turned her slightly to see what caused her death. Some intestines began to appear that were already sticking out of the hole in her guts!! [:@][:@][:@] Some &*%$@* hole shot her before the season and then lost her to boot! [:@]

This is the 3rd year in a row that I've found a dead deer in that area in the early season that somebody wasted. The entire area will stink for a few weeks now and some idiot will be bragging to his buddies that he "stuck one, but couldn't find her."

That really ticks me off![:@]

RE: Found a dead one BEFORE the opener!
 

That sucks man.............[:'(]I guess I'm pretty lucky. I haven't had any problem with poachers where I hunt!!!

RE: Found a dead one BEFORE the opener!
 

That's terrible. [:'(] I hope the s.o.b. gets caught.

RE: Found a dead one BEFORE the opener!
 

That really sucks DaveH I hate people who cant follow the rules and have to be @sses like this hey were in Harford County do you live I am In Street by Dublin on Rt 543 Good luck to ya:)

RE: Found a dead one BEFORE the opener!
 

we found 4 deer deer's poached with rifle last rifle season that pissed me off .hope that was the last of that bs

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I know exactly how infuriating that is. I just want to scream at people sometimes. Good luck with that deer not ruining your spot.[:@]

RE: Found a dead one BEFORE the opener!
 

It is extremely difficult for me to even understand a person who has absolutely regards for the laws and or others.
Unfortunately we're breathing the same air as they are--wish that could have been different too.

RE: Found a dead one BEFORE the opener!
 

With no exit wound and no arrow sticking out, is it possible that it was another kind of wound? Perhaps a perferated ulcer or maybe an injury? We're always quick to blame someone but maybe it wasn't a poacher?

RE: Found a dead one BEFORE the opener!
 

They poach around here all the time

RE: Found a dead one BEFORE the opener!
 

Havent had that problem here wher ei hunt either.