That's wrong, the land owner did not shoot the animal andtherefore is not responsible for it.

By your logic, if someone in a car hit a deer and itran onto your land to die,you go out to see whathappened and because you are standing next to the deer on your property, youwould get a ticket because you wasted the meat??

That law you stated is common in most states but applies ONLYto the person who SHOT it.

Something dosen't jive with that story.

I don't see what's wrong with it or about it. If someone refuses to let you come onto their land to retrieve your deer then they have effectively taken ownership of the deer. If the deer now belongs to them but they refuse to do anything with the deer then it iswasteof game. If they don't process it, they should get a ticket. If they do process it, they should provide a tag and tag it or get a ticket for not tagging the deer. Otherwise they should allow the deer to be retrieved.

I understand what you are saying, but just because the owner does not let you on their land does not mean they have assumed "ownership" of the deer.

Just like the car hit, are you saying that everybody who has had a deer die on their property that was not killed by them should either tag that deer or get a ticket?

You see it makes no difference what killed the deer (car, hunter, old age etc...) if that deer ends up on someones property they do not have to let anyone on it to retreive that deer, and they don't have to buy a tag either. It's private property and unless the owner killed that deer they have no responsibility to it.

I will say it again that law is specifically written to make huntersuse every legal resource they can to retreive their quarry and thus reducing "wasted meat"

This has gotten like a war between land owners and line rats.I think you would have to look hard to find a land owner that would not want to help you find your deer.But that said Some of you jerks top all.I can give you the name of aidiot that wanted to see if he couldkill a doe with his pistol the results were a gut shot doe in my front yard,my wife was not happy.
A little respect goes a long way.Maybe setup back 100 yards or so to avoid the problem or if you plan to hunt on the line you might want to ask permission first.Those of you that think sneaking is ok just make it worse the the guy that trys to be upright.
Really all I'm saying is pissing off land owners has caused alot of hard feelings that need not be.You will aways loose.

And to shootnmiss its like asking how much something cost.If you have to ask you can't afford it.[:@]

bawanajim-

Man your a tough sob. When you rag on me it's like pissing in the wind gonna get ya no where. Honestly youand your opinion don't mean s**t to me.So if I were you I would just quittyping, your wasting your obviously wellthought out reponses.


Oh yea and your a jackass![8D]

Yea but who loves YAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!

I didn't read through all 13 pages of this thread, but I will say that unless the law says you can pursue game onto private property, then you're probably S.O.L.. Since you had a deputy and a game warden out there and you still didn't recover the deer, then I'd guess that your state law was not on your side. In Iowa, thankfully, wehave a law that says that a hunter may pursue game onto any property provided that he does so unarmed, and that the animal wasshotat a place where the hunter was legally allowed to be and the animal then crossed over onto the other property (if you shot across a fence where you weren't allowed to hunt, you're not only out of luck, but you're also probably goingto get a citation).

Mike

Shoot better...cripple the animal...or just go get your deer and clear out for da cops come......Thats part of hunting too! You can please everyone so ya gotta please yourself!