Dispatching your animal, quickly
09-08-2008, 07:49 AM
#41
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: New Jersey
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RE: Dispatching your animal, quickly
Luckily for me i havent had any spine shot deer, im sure it will happen eventually, but hasnt yet. I wouldnt think twice and would shoot until i ran out of arrows and then had to use my knife it the job still wasnt done.
09-08-2008, 08:03 AM
#42
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2003
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RE: Dispatching your animal, quickly
If the wrong thing is against the law, isn't that poaching Jeff?
J/k man. I've never spined a deer, probably because I usually only hunt 10-12 feet in the air, and hunt off the ground a lot. I've cut a deers throat before. I've also been kicked by a deer, the 2 seem to go hand in hand.
J/k man. I've never spined a deer, probably because I usually only hunt 10-12 feet in the air, and hunt off the ground a lot. I've cut a deers throat before. I've also been kicked by a deer, the 2 seem to go hand in hand.
09-08-2008, 08:10 AM
#44
Dominant Buck
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RE: Dispatching your animal, quickly
I've said that before.....and I guess I need to explain myself.
Ethics is doing the right thing....when even the wrong thing isn't against the law. That probably doesn't need explaining. I've also said that the converse of that statement is also true (IMO). That means....Ethics is doing the right thing......when even the "right" thing IS against the law.
Taking a weapon to dispatch a wounded animal at night would be a good exmple of what I meant. It's illegal....but IMO it's the "right" thing to do.
Ethics is doing the right thing....when even the wrong thing isn't against the law. That probably doesn't need explaining. I've also said that the converse of that statement is also true (IMO). That means....Ethics is doing the right thing......when even the "right" thing IS against the law.
Taking a weapon to dispatch a wounded animal at night would be a good exmple of what I meant. It's illegal....but IMO it's the "right" thing to do.
09-08-2008, 08:29 AM
#45
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2006
Location: MA
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RE: Dispatching your animal, quickly
You can't legislate morality andthere will always be a grey area between legality and ethics.
If you use your weapon to dispatch an animal after dark and get caught you should pay the price but that still doesn't mean you did the wrong thing. It just makes you an ethical poacher.
I would finish the job as well. Arrows are cheap
If you use your weapon to dispatch an animal after dark and get caught you should pay the price but that still doesn't mean you did the wrong thing. It just makes you an ethical poacher.
I would finish the job as well. Arrows are cheap
09-08-2008, 08:40 AM
#46
Dominant Buck
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RE: Dispatching your animal, quickly
You can't legislate morality andthere will always be a grey area between legality and ethics.
If you use your weapon to dispatch an animal after dark and get caught you should pay the price but that still doesn't mean you did the wrong thing. It just makes you an ethical poacher.
If you use your weapon to dispatch an animal after dark and get caught you should pay the price but that still doesn't mean you did the wrong thing. It just makes you an ethical poacher.
