RE: Ethics question - Tagging deer
 

If you kill a deer with your car you do not have to tag it. You can call any law enforcement officer and they will tag it as a car kill. As a matter of fact (I asked a DNR officer this question) if you hit a deer and it does not die but is laying there with 2 broken legs it is against the law for you to kill it. You are supposed to call any LEO to come and kill it. Then he will tag it. He can give you the meat of these road kills but you do not have to tag them.

RE: Ethics question - Tagging deer
 

GMMAT

Do you pay taxes on money that you didn't make?


Hmmm....

RE: Ethics question - Tagging deer
 

BLOODY MARY TIME

RE: Ethics question - Tagging deer
 

Road kill tags here do not count as hunting tags. You just get a reciept from the law saying you have the right to it.

2 different things here.

RE: Ethics question - Tagging deer
 

May I suggest some Ezra Brooks.:D

RE: Ethics question - Tagging deer
 

I don't want to be nitpicky but since there were several that responded to this post, i just wanted everyone to have the correct information.In Missouri the deer tags we are are for transportion. Yes you must have one prior to hunting, becasue the deer is required to be tagged immediatly upon retrieval. But these tags are for the transportion on ther deer. with that said... here is what the MDC wildlife code book says about recovering and tagging deer. Any one can view this on the MDC website.

GMMAT per the Missouri Law you more than did what you are required to do. You made more than an honost effert to recover the deer. A 5 hour grid serch is more than what most would to recover a deer. You were unable to find it. That happens. I personally think you have ethically done what you needed to do.

(8) Hunters who kill or injure a deer must

make a reasonable effort to retrieve and tag

it, but this does not authorize trespass.

(9) Hunters who take a deer must tag it

immediately with the transportation tag portion

of the permit; detaching the transportation

tag voids the permit. Deer may be possessed

and transported only by the taker until

reported through the Telecheck Harvest

Reporting System. All deer taken must be

accurately reported through the Telecheck

Harvest Reporting System by 10:00 p.m. on

the day taken by the taker or in the taker’s

immediate presence. The Telecheck confirmation

number must be recorded immediately

on the deer hunting permit as indicated on

the permit, and immediately attached to the

deer by the taker. The transportation tag and

deer hunting permit with confirmation number

must remain attached to the intact or

field-dressed carcass until the deer is

processed. All deer must be reported through

the Telecheck Harvest Reporting System

prior to processing or being removed from

the state.

RE: Ethics question - Tagging deer
 

Darn it! I was going to ask that exact question.:)AND my answer to it would be NO. Yes, I caused this deer's death but its not use to me...now. No tag.

Jeff, you are overthinking this stuff WAY too much!You act asif the DNR is a god and willcomdemnyou if you don't tally every deer death you are responsible for.They realize these exact situations mayoccur and I'm sure they have some way of accounting for it (estimate).

RE: Ethics question - Tagging deer
 

So you find your deer 2 weeks later, Duc....and KNOW it's the same deer you killed, earlier.....and you keep hunting with that tag?

No wrong answer to that question, I guess.

Me......I get two bucks/season in my zone (Eastern zones get 4). If I were to arrow an 8-pointer (for the sake of the scenario depicted).....and find him 2 weeks later......I now (in my eyes) have 1 buck tag left.....and I report the 1st kill. I killed it. I need to tag it.

I'm not passing judgement on you.....just saying what I would do.

RE: Ethics question - Tagging deer
 

Yes I would. The Reg. book states that the animal must be tagged upon vehicle transport of the carcass or at conclusion of hunting hours.

Honestly, I didn't need a reg. book to answer that question. I already knew what I would do no matter what the book said. Call me unethical but it just doesn't make sense to me to tag something you can't use or enjoy!

As would I, if I wanted the antlers (AND I would). The book says I have to tag it before I transport the carcass anyway. Say its a real NICE 8 pointer andI wanted to get it mounted...gotta tag it anyway before showing up to the taxi.

Perhaps I don't give a darn about antlers and I found that 8 pointer a couple weeks later like you say. Then I wouldn't tag it.Why not Duc...its a buck ? No, just a doe with antlers. I would treat them both equally in the above situation.

RE: Ethics question - Tagging deer
 

To answer your question,

Nope. I would only tag something I kep, either meat or horns

if it were a buck I found 2 weeks later.. I'd tag it in order to legally keep the horns...