if you look at some of her other posts, you are right on ....

That's really what it's all about after all...just opening eyes. I too learned a lot and hey I'm no saint either. Here is part of what I FIRST posted on this matter:


As you guys see I too struggle with this, I know full well it's easy to type absolutes like "I will not" or "I'd never" but the truth is we don't TRULY know what we would do until it happens and as to date this hasn't happened to me. As I first posted, I'd like to believe I'd act accordingly.....But I do know I'd be one pissed off dude, not at the law but at how a fellow man could be so rude and disparaging to another person as to not let a lawful and ethical hunter recover their kill, that's beyond me. It's one thing to not want strangers on your land (I get that), but once the situation(s) have been brought to light to STILL not allow access is bordering on criminal itself and I find it completely and utterly appalling.[:'(]

Great debate and thanks for being civil........(there's that word again)

P.S.
Tony, I don't necessarily like to use "set up" questions, but sometimes not showing your hand is the best way to get your point across.It wasn't meant to paint you in a bad light (you know that) and I appreciate your honesty, nothing wrong with your answer either. As I said, I completely see the other side of this debate and I too took some things from it to "chew on".

Very intersting debate and topic.

If said deer was gut shot on yourlandand bedded within range on posted land, would you shoot across the line for a sympathy kill? Potentially leaving your arrow on private land.

It all comes down to physically being placed in the situation, not hypothetically. A live, but certain to be dead deer, would probably have different results in the poll. Yet, the same criteria by definition of posted land is the same. As BigJ stated, everyone hopes they could make that "moral" decision of obeying the law. Yet, as Quik has posted, written law can be construed and twisted to manipulate other law. I think in this case it would come down to a conscience rule and as long as no malicious intent was done to retrieve the animal, a minimal fine might be the worst of it. I would think they would have to show an intent to trespass, shooting said animal across the line, rather than physical trespass on recovery. Don't cut the fence, tear up the land with a 4-wheeler or stop for a glass of wine in a cabin and I doubt you would face any conviction of trespass.

As for the questions at hand. I would not shoot the deer on posted land. I'd see it as more of a test for the other land owner when he sees that buck the next season on my side of the line. But I guarantee I would recover the animal, in this case a deer, I shot on legal groundthat crossed onto privatized land.Until the point of thatanimal crossing the line their is nothing wrong with my actions, I took it legally and I'll recover it wherever it lays rest. I can choose its demise, but I cannotpredetermine it's instincts of flight. As for my question, I would shoot a mortally wounded deer on private land that I initially shot on permissable land, I'd have to finalize what I started.

The sad part is, with the commercialization of hunting and the direct management of wild animals for private enterprise it's only going to get worse.

Someone here probably already said this, I would take the shot; as far as retrieving the deer, I would re-ask the owner, maybe get a game warden to persuade the owner, and if that didn't work, I would not risk the ticket for trespassing probably. Maybe I should have not even put myself it that situation at that point, maybe I should have thought about hunting away from the owners land. Lets be honest alot of us would not react the same way we post if the situation presented itself.

After reading the shed thing, I thought I would resurrect thisthread for the sake of recanting my vote publicly ..... I originally =said I would get the deer that was shot on my property and fell on the neighboring property ... I now am convinvced that BigJ and, I hate saying this one, BawanaJim are right ...... respect of someone elses rights should trump our subjective thoughts on what is right ....

It's JUST a deer.

Yessir .... Jeff, you said that earlier, and as hard as that was for me to swallow .... you were right.

Thats something you can count on Just Like the sun rising in the East,

I just bought your new book ......"Humility, and How I Obtained It"

I'd try not to put myself in that position but if faced with it....
1.Wouldn't shoot.
2.I'd recover the deer

My Dad shot a buck once and it died on anothers property.It was close to the fence and he didn't ask for permission.Well hewas caught in the act.The owner told him he was taking the deer,soDad volunteered to gut and help drag it out.The guy declined his services and they parted ways.As far as I know there were no hard feelings on either end.The moral of the story is if your going to dance you have to pay the band.