A fellow from my hometown(50 miles southwest of New Orleans)was still hunting in one of our area swamps and killed the deer in thepreceeding picture. He had almost finished climbing his stand when he saw the deer about 100 yds. away. He watched it for a couple of minutes and when it finally picked up it's head and he saw the antlers, he shot it. Upon recovering the deer, he noticed a white tag with the number 52 marked on it (he did not see tag when he shot the deer). He brought the deer back to the camp and, of course, it was a sight for all to see.

After calls were placed and information on the deer starting coming in, it was soon found that the deer had escaped from a holding pen about 20 miles from the area it was killed - Hurricane Katrina had knocked down the fence holding the deer.

Now let's get one thing clear here..... THE HUNTER KILLED THE DEER IN A LOUISIANA SWAMP, NOT A FENCED IN AREA. AGAIN, HE DID NOT KILL THE DEER IN A FENCED IN AREA. I repeat this, because on Louisiana Sportsman website, people are giving him a hard time about killing the deer.

What are your thoughts?

I wish I had one like that!!

I would have shot him for sure

I think he killed a defenseless pen raised deer. Can't imagine being too excited over killing a helpless pet that has had it's instincts dulled by living in a cage.

Sad story.

By 'holding pen' I meant that the deer was free to roam a certain amount of fenced in acres (I don't know exactly how many)- sorry if there was any confusion.



Here's another question....

Should he be able to enter it into P&Y...... it gross scored around 160.

IMO he should not be able to enter it.

No.


Here is another question...........would he have shot it anyways had he known the full story??

If you mount him. I would keep the tag on the year for the story.
awesomebuck and awesome luck.

Man, what a bruiser. Good question about the P&Y. I don't know how they willhandle that one. My guess is probably not, because it was raised in a high fenced area? And maybe created by artificial insemination from a buck w/ good genes?

The fellow did nothing wrong or illegal- he saw a big deer eating, watched it for a couple of minutes and then shot it.

There is absolutely no fault on his part.

Any of you (as would I) would have done the same thing.





In saying that, I believe it shouldn't be entered in the record books.