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What Would You Do?
I want to see what the general response is before I post the outcome.
Say you out riding your dirtbike one weekend and almost run over a very nice buck laying in the middle of a trail. When you bo back to check it out you see that it is still alive but in very bad shape. It is very skinny, having trouble holding it's head up, and you can see a large very infected hole in the back of its neck from about fifteen yards away. It just lays there and looks at you. Here is the dilemma. It is in city limits. You can hunt in the city with a bow, but not on weekends. Also, you have used both of your city tags. What would you do? |
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Call the game warden and explain the situation. They would have the authority to allow you to shoot the deer and I believe that in most states they have tags they can issue you for a "humane kill" so it won't count against your regular tag.
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Call the game wardern
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ORIGINAL: NavyDeerHunter Call the game warden and explain the situation. They would have the authority to allow you to shoot the deer and I believe that in most states they have tags they can issue you for a "humane kill" so it won't count against your regular tag. Ditto! |
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Same as above...call the game warden. They'll probably kill it and let you claim it.
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I would call the game warden.
Germ might try to spoon him. I'm just sayin:D |
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Here's where I get off the beaten path.
The FIRST thing I'm gonna do is dispatch the animal. THEN....I'll call Chris (game warden). I'd tell him the scenario that unfolded....and roll with the punches. Just as "ethics" is doing the right thing ....even when doing the wrong thing isn't against the law.......it has a transverse. I'm dispatching that animal, first. Jeff |
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ORIGINAL: SBGobblers I'm dispatching that animal, first. |
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I would have introduced him to the knife.
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I also know my game warden. He'd simply tell me "thanks"....and then we'd figure out what to do with the dispatched animal when he got there. That's me personally, though. You guys have to figure out what's right, for your individual circumstances.
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I'm with you SB, killing the animal would be the humane thing to do, but I doubt most of us are on a first name basis with our GW. Hell, around here they are just waiting on a reason to haul someone in and this would be the perfect opportunity.
ORIGINAL: SBGobblers I also know my game warden. He'd simply tell me "thanks"....and then we'd figure out what to do with the dispatched animal when he got there. That's me personally, though. You guys have to figure out what's right, for your individual circumstances. Jeff |
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ORIGINAL: SBGobblers I also know my game warden. He'd simply tell me "thanks"....and then we'd figure out what to do with the dispatched animal when he got there. That's me personally, though. You guys have to figure out what's right, for your individual circumstances. Jeff |
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Call the game warden andlet them issue a tag for it.
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I go with calling the game warden. Let the game warden make the call.
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well i have came up on a deer like that befor but it wasnt hunting grounds you couldnt hunt this but i guess someone was an i called the Gw they said they would be out to look at the deer in a hour or so i waited 6 hours at my house about a 100 yards away still with the buck in view i called back they said they would be out no1 ever came out so when night fall hit i went back with a flash light to see if the deer was still alive if i found the deer alive my choice was call the police an have them put it out or take my 357 an put it out my self so as i entered the woods i heard or seen nothing but i shined the flash light up on the deer it was dead walked up poked it with a stick i didnt wanna spook it an get messed up but i went and seen it was dead gutted it out and dragged it out their is no law on taken a dead deer out the woods if u have no weapons no matter what they think nothing really they can do if you did not shoot it i have been stoped but dnr befor while walking threw the woods an found deer not bloated an gutted it out an dragged it an dnr said nothing but ask me what happed and i told him the truth so u have many opions pick your best an rule your last out
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I'm going to shoot first and ask the warden later. Down here that's usually the thing to do. Of course if I was in a northern state or a stste where the wardens were the kind that liked to write people up, I'd probably be more cautious.
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Punctuation?
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Punctuation? lol Jeff |
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ORIGINAL: Monsterhunter0021 well i have came up on a deer like that befor but it wasnt hunting grounds you couldnt hunt this but i guess someone was an i called the Gw they said they would be out to look at the deer in a hour or so i waited 6 hours at my house about a 100 yards away still with the buck in view i called back they said they would be out no1 ever came out so when night fall hit i went back with a flash light to see if the deer was still alive if i found the deer alive my choice was call the police an have them put it out or take my 357 an put it out my self so as i entered the woods i heard or seen nothing but i shined the flash light up on the deer it was dead walked up poked it with a stick i didnt wanna spook it an get messed up but i went and seen it was dead gutted it out and dragged it out their is no law on taken a dead deer out the woods if u have no weapons no matter what they think nothing really they can do if you did not shoot it i have been stoped but dnr befor while walking threw the woods an found deer not bloated an gutted it out an dragged it an dnr said nothing but ask me what happed and i told him the truth so u have many opions pick your best an rule your last out Monsterhunter0021, I am NOT trying to be a jack@**, but I don't even bother trying to read your posts anymore because it is like one big jumbled up bunch of words. I am not a teacher or an english major. We all make mistakes, but I think I speak for more than myself when I ask you to please try using a little punctuation in your posts. If nothing else just throw in a period every now and again. More people will attempt to readyour postsand take you more serious. Sorry if I offended you in ANY way. Thank you, Jacob P. -TEMPORARY THREAD HIJACK OVER- |
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Amen
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I would call first, no doubt. You never know what kind of mood the Game Warden is going to be in, like others said, it's not worth the risk.
Years ago (before I was born) my father was attackedin camp (camp director at a summer camp) by a black bearin far northern Wisconson. It happened during pre-camp before the kids showed up,at night in the pitch black.This was before theyhadlamps up in the camp (1963), he was only armed with a .22mag Ruger sixgun.Well to make a very long story short aftera longpainfull fight with this bear that lasted for some time, he was able to kill it. In the morning he called the game Warden. When the Game Warden arrived my dad showed him the area that it took place and the chunks of skin the bear "removed" fromhim. Well the Game Warden was pissed and told my father he shouldn't go around shooting the bears and accused him of poaching. Well that charge didn't last too long and the whole matter was settled with a call to the wardens supervisor. The Warden did however take the bear, my dad thought he should have been able to keep it after what he went through to get it!:Dbut understood why he took it.;) |
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It needs to be put down by someone, ASAP.
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There is what is on paper, and then there is real life. Real life is when we are forced to make decisions on the fly, and do not have in our possession "the trustystate game handbook" that wouldn't cover this topic anyway. I have a simple rule that I try to follow in these situations, that may or may not help. Do what you feel is the right thing to do. Since some will feel different than others, there will be no right, or wrong answers.
Like I said before, I would have killed him right when I found him, to end his suffering. Since I didn't havea gun or bow it wasn't hunting, so I would behead him and mount his head on the handlebars and go about my day with my new friend. |
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ORIGINAL: Killer_Primate I would behead him and mount his head on the handlebars and go about my day with my new friend. |
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I'd put him out of his misery. I wouldn't want a deer that was skinny with a gapping wound. It probably wouldn't be fit to eat.
I'd end its misery and walk away. No calls, no dragging it home, just end its misery and leave it there. It would have died a long agonizing death anyway. It would take a warden hours to arrive if they ever did. The deer is near death and consulting a warden doesn't ease its pain. This is what I'd do. In my heart, it is the right thing to do. |
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Well, since I seldom carry a gun while riding through the park I guess I'd make a phone call.[8D] IF I had some sort of weapon... I plead the 5th.
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Ok, here's what happened. The guy who almost ran it over lives about a mile from where the buck was laying. So he rode home real quick and grabbed his bow to put it out of it's misery. He put a perfect shot on it and it ran about 10 yards and collapsed. Hereis the weird part. When the bucked jumped up half of it's rack fell off. When it collapsed the other side came off. This deerwas so bad that my buddy didn't even attempt to save the meat. The smell was putrid.
Thanks for all the responses. I just wanted to see were I stood in the general consensus on what was right. I know what was donemay be illegal, so I won't even post what state it was in. It was a awsome buck for where it was.But in this situation I believe that what was morally and ethically right was the right choice. Here's a pic of the rack.  |
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tough situation...know its illegal but know the deer is suffering..if i know its not going to make it i will help it die quicker..sounds like the wound was badly infected and he wasnt going to make it so i say good call. the rack falling off is signs of stress and maybe not eating because he was sick and weak..when deer are stressed or ill they often shed early..
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I would have put him out of his misery since I don't have the GW's number on speed dial. [&:]
...and I would not have bothered telling them anyway. |
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Thats why I keep a copy of my hunting regs in my truck incase I need to get in touch with one of the wardens. One quick cell call and I would have put him down and ended his misery. Everybody wins
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ORIGINAL: *JB* I would call the game warden. Germ might try to spoon him. I'm just sayin:D  |
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find a way to kill it, legal or not its the ethical thing to do IMO
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Depending on where you are,do you have a phone,do you have a knife-gun-club. How far gone is he? Are you putting yourself at risk?a big buck wont stop fighting till he is dead.Dont trade places with him laying in the trail!!
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