Here is the background.

You live in a state where you can take 2 bucks per year. You are hunting one day and a legal buck comes into range and you mortally wound it. You look for it very hard and determine that you can not find it but you are 100% sure you killed it, and for the sake of this post it did die. Well the nextweek you are hunting a different stand and another legal buck walks into range, you shoot and recover this animal. Now if we can agree that the whatever you have that issues tags (NYSDEC in New York) issues them for management reasons most of the time. Thats why you only get 2 tags not 3.


This is the question.

You know that you have killed 2 bucks this season and have a tag left.

Do you hunt to fill that last buck tag?

To "tag" a deer.....you have to possess it.

Concur. I am not using a tag on a deer that I don't recover.

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It doesn't make sense, you know the buck is dead (how and why do you know this) but you can't find it? For the sake of this thread of course

Unfortunate as it may be. Say a prayer, they go get your second buck with the 2nd tag.

[quote]ORIGINAL: Bowtech 360

OH BOWTECH, tell em that is not a spelling error in your post!!?? Oh my, must be laziness not looking it up to see how "agree" is spelled. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm LOL

well this whole thing isa theoretical question, butim pretty sure that I have heard stories of people knowing they killed but couldnt find a deer.

I agree with the posts above. You cannot "tag"ananimal if you don'tposses ananimal to tag...

Add this twist--what if while tracking the first buck, you find the remains of the first buck you arrowed and it's antlers were still intact...do you tag it?