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"Playing under the table and dreaming"

Sounds like a really poor attempt at recovery to me!<img src=icon_smile_dissapprove.gif border=0 align=middle>I could not be very proud of that deer!

That is a sad thing to hear...setting a bad example. I can't beleive he would write something like that and then surprised buckmasters would put it up... Guess we here at hunting.net know better than to be lazy like that.
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They have alot of nerve calling that story 'Never Give Up' after not finding the deer that night he GAVE UP and the next morning instead of looking for the deer he went back and hunted his stand again. While hunting the next day he kept hearing crows in the area and it didnt even occur to him what that was all about. Well duh. PICK UP.

If Zafts buck is questionable this one is definitely a pickup! I can't believe this guy had the gall to publish the story!

if you can track the deer you shot--then you recover your deer anything else??????????????
WHAT CAME FIRST--THE GUY NEXT DOOR FINDING THE HEAD OF A RECORD BOOK BUCK OR THE GUY CLAIMING HE SHOT THAT RECORD BOOK BUCK?JUST DOESN'T SEEM LIKE A RESPONSIBLE HUNT--AT ALL!!

Has anyone written to buckmasters about this? I think we should, and am heading that way right now...My beef is he was back in his stand and did not put in the effort at recovery.

--Jim

In fact, here is what I sent:

Mr. Piper,

I read the article, &quot;Never Give up&quot; by Keith Bailey online at http://www.buckmasters.com/buckmaste...0123Never.html
and I was rather displeased with it.

It seems from the article that the hunter shot a nice deer, but did very little to recover the animal. In fact, the next morning he was back on stand. I believe an ethical hunter who believed he had shot a deer would have spent more time searching for the deer. In fact he claims he found the deer a mere 40 yards into the brush, I guess from where he shot it. I understand deer can be hard to find, but searching into the night and then going back on stand the next morning is not a standard that I feel Buckmasters should portray.

The honest and effective was to use this article is a case in point to discuss how to recover a deer before the meat spoils. It sounds like with a little effort the author could have recovered the deer and been back in the lodge by noon the next morning with a little effort. The author should not be proud of this hunt as the meat was spoiled thanks to his lack of effort. Perhaps if he had spent 3 days searching before he found it I would feel differently, but in my point of view his lack of effort in recovering the deer was poor judgement.

I enjoy the articles and the website but hope to see some better articles than this in the future (as I have in the past).

--Jim Lemanek
St. Louis, MO

I sent it to Ken Piper, [email protected], on-line editor. We will see if he responds.

--Jim

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