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wow thats really said Prof, so in other words according to the authorities, he should have let the deer suffer additional time in order for them to arrive. Somethings wrong there in my book anyway. I think your friend did the right thing.

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Yes Bob that is about what it boiled down to. He would have had to call her and wait for the 35 minutes for her to get there before he could have shot it. He said that there is now way he could have stood to see her suffering anymore. He did do the right thing, and I would have done the same thing. I talked to another game warden about it once and he said that he would have used a roadkill tag with all the evidence there. It is up to the warden' s discretion I guess. But it was a bummer that he was done for the year. He only got about half the meat from it to boot. That wasn' t a good season for him.

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ijimmy,

I know what you were trying to say the first time, but the whole trophy vs. meat hunter argument[:@] really strikes a nerve with me and it just really bothered me. Sorry for the flame.[:' (]

Sad story there Proff....sorry it turned out that way. The authorities really need to get there head out of the sand on issues like that. Your friend did the right thing though.[:-]

FFTJ,

I understand completely.

RBH,

I follow you there. I still think there is a line....somewhere.


I likely would have tagged the deer the next day and asked the PGC for a new tag. Whether I deserve it or not is questionable....sort of -- if I shoot a gang green deer it isn' t fit for consumption. In this case the PGC will issue me a new tag. Isn' t this sort of the same deal? I mean a deer that' s been torn apart by coyotes, or anything for that matter, and not much left is certainly not fit for human comsuption, right? Same thing? Or different?

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I shot a doe last year and never found it. We are allowed one deer period out here, and even if I had found the doe after coyotes had eaten it I would still have tagged it. As it was I felt so bad that I considered myself done for the season and didn' t hunt anymore. I kept looking for the remains for several days afterward even though I don' t know exactly what I would have done had I found them. I don' t see anything wrong with asking the DOW for another tag. They should know whether or not they need to reduce the herd size and you will probably be given/not given a tag accordingly. JMO

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Proff, I feel for your friend. I agree he should not have had to tag that deer. Thats not right at all. I' ve been in a situation where a deer was nearly dead on the side of the road from being hit by a car and I shot it with a handgun. Does that make me a poacher? It wasn' t even deer season. I then called a game warden but I was not arrested for poaching.

Jason N I don' t think there is anyway to cover every case here but I see what you' re trying to say. The line can be hazy. A lot of it boils down to personal feelings. To answer your question if I shot a deer with gang green then I' d take the horns and go home. Coyotes gotta eat so they can have the rest. In my eyes you gotta look at the bigger picture. We' re talking about life, not a product at a store. If I kill a deer while hunting it, the above situation wold be an exception, then I took the 1 life I was licensed to take. If I lose the meat because of whatever reason then I chalk it up to experience and lesson learned based on whatever happened. Some things are out of your control and there are risks. There are no guarantees in hunting. If someone stole your deer out of camp, are you entitled to another tag? I think no, but thats just a personal feeling.

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Proff....it looks like he should have just shot that poor doe and went on with his business. Atleast that' s what I would have done. I can' t stand to see an animal like that in such pain. Nothing goes to waste in the woods!! And in this case he did the right thing.

As to the main thread...I guess that I feel differently than pretty much everyone that is responding to it. So I' ll just leave it at that. Don' t want to get into a peeing match on what or where to draw the line on such a thing.

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In reply to the initial question...I' m kinda cut and dry on this one. I think if you do not tag it, then you have little business hunting, much less bowhunting. As a bowhunter, I take additional pride in what we do, as I think we need to. We normally put in more work than a rifle/shotgun hunter, because we have to. And that work involves many things, one of which is being in constant contact (and good standing) with the landowners where this animal lay. In addition, many landowners prefer bowhunters as opposed to rifle/shotgun hunters. That being said, we need not only follow the rules to a ' T' , but also even go a step further if something may be legal but involves a moral judgment call of some sort. I personally see it as both, highly illegal and highly immoral.

This is all within our hunting family too, not even getting into the issue of anti-groups who would LOVE to catch wind of something like this. What many of these wacko' s wouldn' t give to have a picture of a rotted out carcass (regardless if eaten' by other predators...that part would never be told) with an arrow sticking out the side of it...know what I mean? Not good.

Just my two cents.

**just a side note, I was watching the O' Reilly Factor last night and he had a segment, which touched on anti-groups and their demonstrations. To be quite honest, I was somewhat shocked at what these people were doing outside of a fast food restaurant. They were all dressed up in fake fur outfits, chained at the neck, and COVERED in fake blood...all the while rolling around on the ground making as**s out of themselves. This was a serious head shaker for me, as I am honestly stumped how fence sitters would buy into this and not just think they were flat out lunatics?