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you are hunting u only have a buck tag u see a badly wounded doe do u shoot it or not

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I would call Fish and Game Dept.

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i'd shoot it , i would rather pay an illegal deer fine , than to see a poor animal suffer !

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same here

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Heck no! I don't like seeing an animal suffer anymore than the next guy but I sure ain't gonna risk my hunting privileges over it. The coyotes will take care of it. Thats nature. It isn't always pretty.

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call the game warden. sometimes they even give the go ahead to put it out of its missery and then they come out and deal with it legally but call the game warden first!!!

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No tag no shoot for me. I hate to see animals suffer but I also just can't abondon the laws either. Even if I thought itwas the best orright, it is illegal and therefor to me it isn't the right thing to do under the circumstances.

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If I didn't have the proper tag, I would pass. The loss of property and hunting rights is just too much to risk.
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that's a tough one! In all my years of hunting, have never been put in that spot. I have however dispatched wounded bucks, ending my hunt, but never doe w/only buck tag possession

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Call game warden.In the eyes of the law it would be considered poaching if you take a doe under those circumstances.Like Introc said the coyotes will take care of it.

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Ok about the same situation.I've been POed with my neighbor,agreed he don't come on my property and I don't go on his.He has said he would put a bullet in me.

I have shot two Deer that made it to his place that I know I could finish off,but because of this I haven't.

The last Deer I could have shot a second time,I seen it humped up in the brush,but it was on his property.

Ok what would you do?

big rockpile

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regardless of the past issues, I'd give him a call & let him know about the wounded animal on his property. Maybe he'll let you on, probably not. I think the animal deserves that much respect, rather than a slow death.

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Unfortunate situation. Legally, you are not allowed on his land so you really have no option. You either let the coyotes find it or you call your neighbour and tell him the situation. The chance you are taking is that he may let you on to humanely dispatch of the animal or he may get some easy meat for his freezer. With the second option, there is no right or wrong, it now depends on his ethics. Hopefully he makes the right decision. Good luck.
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I agree! Do what he said!

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i would do what i thought would be best at the time....if i feel there is no other choice and that the suffering is unbearable, yeah, i'm going to shoot it...if i didn't have a tag, i'd still end it's suffering, but i'd always call L.E. and let them know what i had done and then deal with the consequences...i will not watch any animal suffer....i'm sorry, it's not in me...
The other day i got into a similar conversation with an officer....he was cleaning his truck out from a road kill...well one he had to put down...i told him i wouldof donethe same , even if i had to stick it , lol....he said no i wouldn't,that it was an illegal method of killing....told him the same thing, i will try to get L.E. to do it , but if they were a ways off, i would do it....i'm sorry....hopefully i'll never have to do it.......

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If you dont have a tag, don't shoot!

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I would have to shoot it and take my chances

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I've put down to badly shot deer. One had both its front legs shot off around the knee. the other was shot through its hindquarters and could hardly move. To me, my higher priority is to the animal, and because of that, yes I would put them out of their misery

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This Guy comes up here for a couple weeks a year.The second time I met him,he was Camped on my property with a couple other guys.I run them off.

Every year it has been one thing or another for the last 15 years.Last year he was setting on the Fence Line with his Son so he could hunt my place and his.I told him what I thought of it.He told me he seen me and should have taken a shot at me.This year he took five shots at the tree limbs over me.

He is mad because when he bought property back here he didn't think anyone would ever move back in here and he would have free range of the whole area.He offerd to buy me out for half what I feel my place is worth.

Nope anymore I'm not going to waste my breath with him.

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A piss'in match between two hunters is one thing but that just crossed the line. I would have called the law.

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You need to get the LAW out there before something bad happens.

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AGREED!!!

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X3!!!! Get the law involved! If he is shooting above your head, its only a matter of time before something bad happens!

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My peace of mind is what Ihave to livewith,would you sleep better to put it down or walk away.It is all up to you .How well do you sleep at night?I have killed 2 deer I have found along the roads still alive but could not get up . call me an outlaw if you want but I could not walk away and call that living right.May god be with you in every thing you do.

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For one thing the Law don't like coming here,because they don't have vehicals that can get back here.I've have drove them back here on Man hunts and to serve papers.

They really won't do anything until someone gets shot.

big rockpile

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i would shoot

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I'll never understand why post that ask people to admit to committing, or would commita crime are allowed.

The law is clear and they are responsible for letting the animal suffer, not me. When they stop treating me as a potential poacher (creating laws because someone might do something illegal) things will change.

My brother just took a doe that had been shot high in the spine. Had a chunk out of it. He had a tag for it and the animal on inspection would have recovered. He didn't know it at the time.

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i wasent asking anyone to admit to killing a deer illgaly jus a question to see wat sum outher guys would do in case faced with that choice

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Id wouldnt shoot if it was just a doe id feel bad but its not worth to never hunt again but i would shootif it had a fawn with it and then id use the sss (shoot shovel shutup

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Sip on a Beer with the DNR and when he tells you his true feelings....he says....shoot it....

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Youre never with out a doe tag in Wi. lol. So id have no problem shooting it. But if I had only a buck tag open. Id call the DNR first since I have their number on speed dial on my cell and see if it would be ok to shoot it and then dontate the meat.

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I have shot deer hit buy cars before and called the GW after abd the come out and take a statment and the deer.