Just a curious ethicsquestion: you're sitting a stand during extended/doe season, 14 or better buck walks out within 50 yrds, what do you do???? BE HONEST!!!!!!!!!

Let him walk, it is not worth taking a chance on getting caught. Personally, I wouldn't feel right. MHO. BTW, I filled my 2 buck tags in 2000 and had to watch a bigger buck walk by at 10 yrds. a week later. Then I missed him this season as a big 10 pt. Oh well, I had my chance.

A friend of mine shot a wallhanger 8 pt. in handgun season(antlerless only) a couple of yrs. ago. He finally confessed it to me 3 weeks later in Feb. because he didn't feel right about it, of course I didn't help him feel right about it either!

I'd pass it up and follow the law. I know a lot of people who have shot bucks during the doe season, some by accident and others by greed. It's just better to follow the law and get him next year.
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Ethics has nothing to do with it. Its illegal.

if you gotta bow here its legal cause buck season is concurrent with buck season with bow but with a rifle id let him walk I HAVE BEFORE thats half the reason i dont doe hunt

Take a picture, get him on video, or stand up and introduce myself to him, but I'm not shooting. I know that we get in some "holier-than-thou" type discussions on subjects like these, but if anyone doesn't think that's an honest answer, shoot him yourself. I'll report you before the buck hits the ground.

Edited by - GoTres on 01/02/2002 15:40:04

It has never occured to me to shoot any deer that was not legal. If it's bucks only, I enjoy watching does, and vice versa..and That's BEING HONEST!

We all get tempted,But how we react is the difference between a poacher and a hunter.I'm a hunter

I am sure it has happened to most of us. I have made honest mistakes hunting and I am simpathetic to others which so the same. If your family is starving and you shoot a deer to feed them I would probably turn my head, but if I see that deers head on your wall you will be hearing it from me. I am not inclined to turn people in most of the time but in this case the violation is so blatant I think I would.