Ethics question - Tagging deer
#101
RE: Ethics question - Tagging deer
ORIGINAL: davidmil
And for those that say if you kill it it should be tagged. Are you willingto waste a tag ona deer you may run into with your car????
And for those that say if you kill it it should be tagged. Are you willingto waste a tag ona deer you may run into with your car????
#104
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Ohio
Posts: 7,876
RE: Ethics question - Tagging deer
ORIGINAL: 121553
I've feel bad about the 5 road kill deer I've gotten but I'm not going to be hunting for the next 5 yrs for nothing in voiding my tag. I've even utilized some of these deer.
I've feel bad about the 5 road kill deer I've gotten but I'm not going to be hunting for the next 5 yrs for nothing in voiding my tag. I've even utilized some of these deer.
2 different things here.
#106
Fork Horn
Join Date: Apr 2004
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Posts: 219
RE: Ethics question - Tagging deer
ORIGINAL: mobowhuntr
In MO, it's law that you are supposed to tag any animal you hit, whether you recover them or not....
In MO, it's law that you are supposed to tag any animal you hit, whether you recover them or not....
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.
#107
RE: Ethics question - Tagging deer
ORIGINAL: farm hunter
A better (harder) question - what do you do if you find "your" deer 1-2 weeks later? Then what?
FH
A better (harder) question - what do you do if you find "your" deer 1-2 weeks later? Then what?
FH
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).
#108
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.
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.
#109
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?
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!
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.
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.
#110
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...
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...