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Would it wear your tag?
12-28-2007, 07:36 AM
#41
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Cenral Illinois
Posts: 3,180
RE: Would it wear your tag?
If you are spending $400 for meat, check into a mental institution first, then go buy 1/2 a cow.
I'm tagging it, especially if it is out of state, since the deer that I would be shooting is meant for the wall.
I'm tagging it, especially if it is out of state, since the deer that I would be shooting is meant for the wall.
12-28-2007, 08:01 AM
#43
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: North Lima Ohio & Clarion Pa
Posts: 6,453
RE: Would it wear your tag?
Of course. I shot it and killed it. The time and eventsthatoccured between letting the arrow go and arriving at the downed animal have nothing to do with the fact that I hunted and killed the animal that my tag allowed me too.
12-28-2007, 08:05 AM
#44
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: NW Oklahoma
Posts: 1,166
RE: Would it wear your tag?
Ok since everyone here follows the hunting regs to the letter of the law, how about this. Are you obligated by law to tag the deer? If you are, then tag it. If you are not, which I'm pretty sure in most states you are not, then you are under no obligation to tag it. In other words, it's up to your own discretion.
12-28-2007, 08:08 AM
#45
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Bowie, Md
Posts: 149
RE: Would it wear your tag?
ORIGINAL: isatarak
Ok since everyone here follows the hunting regs to the letter of the law, how about this. Are you obligated by law to tag the deer? If you are, then tag it. If you are not, which I'm pretty sure in most states you are not, then you are under no obligation to tag it. In other words, it's up to your own discretion.
Ok since everyone here follows the hunting regs to the letter of the law, how about this. Are you obligated by law to tag the deer? If you are, then tag it. If you are not, which I'm pretty sure in most states you are not, then you are under no obligation to tag it. In other words, it's up to your own discretion.
12-28-2007, 09:09 AM
#46
Typical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: westchester, ny
Posts: 678
RE: Would it wear your tag?
After re-reading the original post I would like to add to my first response. If I was on a out of state hunt and paid $400 dollars for a tag, I would be hunting for antlers not meat. If I recovered what I set out to tag(a big bucks' antlers), regardless of time frame, I would definitely tag it and I'd be ecstatic that I connected and the trip was a success.
12-29-2007, 05:39 PM
#47
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Central Minnesota
Posts: 9,445
RE: Would it wear your tag?
ORIGINAL: davidmil
OH bullhockey. Put it this way, if you wound an animal on the first day of a 10 day hunt do you burn your tag and quit hunting? I appreciate the animal and place value on them, but I refuse to put them on a pedistal and call them Gods. With your line of thinking if you wound an animal you got to tag it. We have things happen and mother nature cleans them up. Do you tag a deer if it runs out in front of your car? It's the same animal that you just fed to the coyotes... why wouldn't you tag that one. It has nothing to do with respect for the animal.Some people want to place the animal on a pedistal in one case but not another. I admire and love them, but I'm not willing to give them more value than what they are, a resource to be used and admired. They're nearing problem sized herds in many areas. One fed to the coyotes won't make a lot of difference. It's unfortunate, but those things happen. I'm not ready to declare myself the martyr and tag a sack full of bones. The law doesn't require it. In fact, if I shoot a sick deer they'll give me another tag in most cases. It's all in the management process. Kills, wounded and lost are all figured in. I don't need to burn that tag to prove I have respect for the animal. In war we shot someone and left him where he fell. No one expected us to build a shrine or offer up some type of token "Respect for the animal". I don't feel I need to do that for Gods gift to us... venison.
OH bullhockey. Put it this way, if you wound an animal on the first day of a 10 day hunt do you burn your tag and quit hunting? I appreciate the animal and place value on them, but I refuse to put them on a pedistal and call them Gods. With your line of thinking if you wound an animal you got to tag it. We have things happen and mother nature cleans them up. Do you tag a deer if it runs out in front of your car? It's the same animal that you just fed to the coyotes... why wouldn't you tag that one. It has nothing to do with respect for the animal.Some people want to place the animal on a pedistal in one case but not another. I admire and love them, but I'm not willing to give them more value than what they are, a resource to be used and admired. They're nearing problem sized herds in many areas. One fed to the coyotes won't make a lot of difference. It's unfortunate, but those things happen. I'm not ready to declare myself the martyr and tag a sack full of bones. The law doesn't require it. In fact, if I shoot a sick deer they'll give me another tag in most cases. It's all in the management process. Kills, wounded and lost are all figured in. I don't need to burn that tag to prove I have respect for the animal. In war we shot someone and left him where he fell. No one expected us to build a shrine or offer up some type of token "Respect for the animal". I don't feel I need to do that for Gods gift to us... venison.
12-29-2007, 06:20 PM
#48
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Phoenixville, PA USA
Posts: 5,541
RE: Would it wear your tag?
I said I would tag it, but it really depends on the pick up laws in the state. If the laws require that I tag it, then I would and then call the DNR and report what happened. Hopefully I'd get a replacement tag. If the state allows pick ups without tagging the animal I would pick up the rack and keep my tag. I'm not going to waste my tag on something that got picked over by animals if I don't have to, but if the law requires that I do, then I will tag the deer. It all comes down to the laws of the state I am in.
