Botched poaching attempt
 

I tried holding off posting this, because it really sickens me. This year I took a buck up in Wisconsin during rifle season. But this isn't your average buck, this is a buck walking around with holes in his head.

On opening morning, after sitting for awhile, I met up with some buddys. We were walking down a logging trail when my one buddy spotted this buck. The buck was acting real strange, he would walk down the trail, turn into the woods, then back up, almost like he was blind. He turned broadside at around 130 yards, and I took him. He didn't go far, maybe 30 yards.

Upon inspection I was shocked, he had a hole in his head that caught my eye instantly. I flipped him over and he had another hole, this one smaller.

His throat and stomach was full of feed corn, which doesn't suprise me. I'm guessing this buck was shot a few days at most before opening day. He was pretty deep in the woods and moving slowly to be shot that morning....


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thats sick[:'(]
i hate poachers they ruin the honest hunters hunts and the deer.[:@]

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That is really too bad.

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absolutely true.

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Yes, you are 100% correct. When I went to check in this deer, first thing the check in guy said...

"Why did you shoot it with a .22, you know that's illegal"

I thought great, now I'm going to get busted for this deer! Thankfully, the .30-06 left a good visual for him to see.

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they should crack down on the poacher..lots here in ILL they mostly "truck hunt" the 2nd season of firearms season


congrats on the buck tho if u know wut i mean

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You mean people there actually look at the deer you check in?

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they dont look at the deer in OK?

they look at the deer here i thought they always did everywhere.

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nice buck sad that people have to do things like that poching that is

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Nobody looks at your deer in Illinois for the past 2 years now. You call in by phone. They ask a few questions like length in centimeters from the tip of the hoof to the dew claw, etc. After you call in they give you a confirmation number for you to write on your leg or antler tag. I guess they do check deer in certain countys for CWD though. Used to drive to a check station where they would try to age your deer, wrap a check station tag through the leg, ask a few questions if your seen turkeys, coyotes, bobcats, etc. Then give you the harvest pin. Last year they mailed the pin to you. This year you had to find out who has them and go pick them up yourself. I understand even non-hunters were able to get the pins. Kinda takes the fun out collecting them....what a bunch of tight a$$'s

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Good thing you put him down Matt, my brother once shot one that had been shot through the flap of both ears.

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[:@]

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Nobody in MN even looks at our deer when we take the to a registration site! It really makes me mad!

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That is just what the anti's need is more of that. I hate poachers and I will do anything to stop them. If someone needsfood these days there is alot of help. Hell I will give them my deer,we have a bad rash of poaching going on around here , they just shoot and run ,leave the deer laying. What a waste. Good job on taking a deer that would of died of infection. You know I consider my hunting rights to be a privledge not a right so I treat it that way.

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I just don't understand what goes on in these people's heads....? It's just poor moral value I guess. You did the right thing by putting him down.
What did he have for horns? Just curious...

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i agree. you did the right thing taking this guy outta there.

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Glad that you got that wounded deer. Good on you for it.

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Poachers make me sick! Good that you were able to put him down.

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ya i actually got sick in my stomach from this

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You've posted one incident! Imagine, how many times does this happen across the USA each day/year!
That'll really make you sick!!!
Thank you for unselfishly giving up a tag to put this buck down. He may not be a trophy in the eyes of many, but:
He no longer suffers and I'll bet his loins and backstraps sure tasted good!

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Good Job Man !!! Right after I shot my Doe this year a buddie of mine shot a 8pt 182-lbs Buck that had a front leg brokethat apoacher shot with a .22 . I dont understand why people would do such things. Sick!!!!

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[:@][:'(]

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My first bowkill was a large doe that had been shot a couple of weeks earlier with a 22. I personally would like to hang a tag on every poacher I can get in my sights...

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u can use a .30-06 in illinios?

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my friend shot a buck with his muzzleloader that had a 22 bulet in it

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The post said it was shot in Wisconsin.