Would you take this shot?
03-04-2008, 08:57 PM
#41
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: SE Ohio
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RE: Would you take this shot?
I suppose, I'd take some heat for it, but I'd shoot BOTH of them to end their misery, and I'd do that with full knowledge that I live in a ONE BUCK state. Because I believe it is the ethical, humane, and correct thing to do.
03-04-2008, 09:04 PM
#42
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: hunterdon NJ
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RE: Would you take this shot?
i would have to say from the ethical stand point, that killing one and cut off the rack of the other would be the right but also, the truth is that no deer is going to stand still while you walk up to it with a hacksaw
03-04-2008, 09:11 PM
#43
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: HENDERSON KY USA
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RE: Would you take this shot?
ORIGINAL: KodiakArcher
No question and I don't care how big or small they are. Either you shoot them and they die relatively quickly or you leave them and they die a long, agonizing death at the hands of starvation or coyotes. I'd hate to be the one trying to saw them apart if one was still kicking; so if it was a one buck area I'd call a buddy to shoot the other (I'd even take the smaller one). Fair chase or not, it's just the right/humane thing to do.
No question and I don't care how big or small they are. Either you shoot them and they die relatively quickly or you leave them and they die a long, agonizing death at the hands of starvation or coyotes. I'd hate to be the one trying to saw them apart if one was still kicking; so if it was a one buck area I'd call a buddy to shoot the other (I'd even take the smaller one). Fair chase or not, it's just the right/humane thing to do.
03-05-2008, 07:07 AM
#46
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: North Lima Ohio & Clarion Pa
Posts: 6,453
RE: Would you take this shot?
HMMM for those of you who said there are no legal issues. Would this not (as they stand) be the definition of taking refuge in water?
A condition in which it's illegal to shoot deer in both Ohio and PA that I know of. How about your State?
Also even if that wasn't a concern, would you not be just as worried that the one you shot would drag the other down and drown it?
I don't think I could do it. I really don't!
A condition in which it's illegal to shoot deer in both Ohio and PA that I know of. How about your State?
Also even if that wasn't a concern, would you not be just as worried that the one you shot would drag the other down and drown it?
I don't think I could do it. I really don't!
03-05-2008, 07:37 AM
#47
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 2,358
RE: Would you take this shot?
I'd call F&G, I wouldn't feel right about killing one of them since I don't think it would give me a good memory to look back on about taking a really nice deer. After the call to F&G I may change my mind depending on what they say.
03-05-2008, 08:58 AM
#50
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: York,Pa
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RE: Would you take this shot?
ORIGINAL: GR8atta2d
HMMM for those of you who said there are no legal issues. Would this not (as they stand) be the definition of taking refuge in water?
A condition in which it's illegal to shoot deer in both Ohio and PA that I know of. How about your State?
Also even if that wasn't a concern, would you not be just as worried that the one you shot would drag the other down and drown it?
I don't think I could do it. I really don't!
HMMM for those of you who said there are no legal issues. Would this not (as they stand) be the definition of taking refuge in water?
A condition in which it's illegal to shoot deer in both Ohio and PA that I know of. How about your State?
Also even if that wasn't a concern, would you not be just as worried that the one you shot would drag the other down and drown it?
I don't think I could do it. I really don't!