I think I just found my Halloween buck!
#22
RE: I think I just found my Halloween buck!
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
I just want to know what the consensus is for protocol. I'm serious. If I keep this buck/rack as my own....I'll tag it and be done with buck hunting this year. If I don't tag it......he ain't mine...and I'll keep hunting.
I just want to know what the consensus is for protocol. I'm serious. If I keep this buck/rack as my own....I'll tag it and be done with buck hunting this year. If I don't tag it......he ain't mine...and I'll keep hunting.
#24
RE: I think I just found my Halloween buck!
Crazy... Can we see a picture of the rack?
Here he is....
#25
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Blossvale, New York
Posts: 21,199
RE: I think I just found my Halloween buck!
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
I just want to know what the consensus is for protocol. I'm serious. If I keep this buck/rack as my own....I'll tag it and be done with buck hunting this year. If I don't tag it......he ain't mine...and I'll keep hunting.
I just wanna know what the right thing to do is.
TEmbry....I'd rather have closure and know.....v. an unknown. If a deer is dead, anyways (there's definitely a dead buck. That I know).....I'd like to put some closure to this.
I just want to know what the consensus is for protocol. I'm serious. If I keep this buck/rack as my own....I'll tag it and be done with buck hunting this year. If I don't tag it......he ain't mine...and I'll keep hunting.
I just wanna know what the right thing to do is.
TEmbry....I'd rather have closure and know.....v. an unknown. If a deer is dead, anyways (there's definitely a dead buck. That I know).....I'd like to put some closure to this.
#26
RE: I think I just found my Halloween buck!
Jeff,
I wouldn't tag it unless I found the broadhead. I like the metal detector idea.
I would do a euro on the antlers and tell the story as it happened. Some stuff just never gets figured out.
This is hunting not stem cell research. It doesn't have to bethe huge ethical issue/debate that is brewing.
I wouldn't tag it unless I found the broadhead. I like the metal detector idea.
I would do a euro on the antlers and tell the story as it happened. Some stuff just never gets figured out.
This is hunting not stem cell research. It doesn't have to bethe huge ethical issue/debate that is brewing.
#27
RE: I think I just found my Halloween buck!
I'd have to agree with you Jeff that it'sgot to beyour buck. Seems to me he circled back to his bedding/core area where you originally shot him. How many other nearly identical 8 point bucks are there in the area that got shot in nearly the identical spot on the right side and ended up in the very location you shot yours. No doubt in my mind its the deer you hit. He looks about like a deer would look that has been laying there in cold weather for a month. Congrats on the recovery. Glad he wasn't a completly lost deer. Don't worry about losing the meat. There are plenty of other does to be had for eatin'. He looks like a nice one at that, now tag him up and enjoy your success this season!
#28
RE: I think I just found my Halloween buck!
I would do a euro on the antlers and tell the story as it happened.
_Dan.....I think he's mine, too (or...the one I shot).
I won't likely ever know, though.
I can see the ehtics police reigning down if I took another buck, though. Call me a skeptic.
#29
RE: I think I just found my Halloween buck!
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
Hey Kevin.....that's logical.Thanks.
_Dan.....I think he's mine, too (or...the one I shot).
I won't likely ever know, though.
I can see the ehtics police reigning down if I took another buck, though. Call me a skeptic.
I would do a euro on the antlers and tell the story as it happened.
_Dan.....I think he's mine, too (or...the one I shot).
I won't likely ever know, though.
I can see the ehtics police reigning down if I took another buck, though. Call me a skeptic.