I'm not sure how long or hard he looked for it. I'm pretty sure he made and honest effort. He farms so he really doesn't get to hunt that much.
I said earlier that I didn't feel he looked hard enough. I said this because if I had shot this deer I would have rounded up everyone I could get and grid search for that deer. He did find it not to far from where they were looking so I think this deer should of been found. I wish I would have been around to help him look I'm pretty sure if I was, we would have recovered that animal.

Don't get me wrong this is a good guy were talking about. I just think he needed a little more guidence in this situation!

We don't have tags, so that is not an issue with me. We can kill 3 bucks per year. If this situation happened to me, I would consider it one of my 3 bucks only if I were 100% positive it was the buck I shot.

I agree, this is a gray area. If I were hunting an area where only one buck was allowed and I found a deer I thought I had shot 3 weeks earlier, I probably would not tag it. If only a couple days, yes I would tag it. Like someone else said, where do you draw the line....................

I only get one Buck tag a year and I would not tag a deer I found weeks after it was killed. What good does it do? I see no need in tagging a pile of bones. Everyone that hunts is going to loose an animal sooner or latter. If you were dove hunting and lost one or two would you count them or kill a couple more to make your limit. As long as someone doesn't waist on purpose I have no problem with it. I know a guy who shot a doe just to see if he could kill it and then left it in the woods. He said the land owner told him to kill the does to thin them out. I talked to the guy and told him he should never do something like that but I'm not sure it sank in. Something like that really burns me up.

Here in New York, I believe (don't quote me) that the law says if you find your deer and the meat is not able to be used, you are entitled to a new tag. My brother got a deer, and left it for a night. Next day it was just a rib cage, spine and head...picked clean by coyotes. He got a new tag. Not sure if that is still the law here.

tag it