Who's deer should this be?
01-19-2010, 12:45 PM
#31
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: On an Island in Vermont
Posts: 22,575
a's deer all the way.
01-19-2010, 05:32 PM
#32
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 411
I thought I knew the answer, but you all have some very good points. Really though, if A did not get a shot good enough to claim the deer without a second shot then B would have rights to it, and if it was me in that situation I would rely on B's decision as to whom the deer belonged to.
01-19-2010, 06:32 PM
#33
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 1,304
Without a doubt, it's A's deer.
A few times over the years we have had to follow a blood trail after one of 'us' fired the shot. It never occured to any of us that the killing shot gets the deer. We are always there to help our buddies. That could mean help dressing a deer, help dragging a deer or help finding a wounded deer. We help each other, never getting into a pissing contest of who's deer it is.
That's what friends do!
A few times over the years we have had to follow a blood trail after one of 'us' fired the shot. It never occured to any of us that the killing shot gets the deer. We are always there to help our buddies. That could mean help dressing a deer, help dragging a deer or help finding a wounded deer. We help each other, never getting into a pissing contest of who's deer it is.
That's what friends do!
In all my days, I'd never thought of it any other way.
iSnipe
01-19-2010, 09:28 PM
#34
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: New Hampshire
Posts: 3,406
I thought I knew the answer, but you all have some very good points. Really though, if A did not get a shot good enough to claim the deer without a second shot then B would have rights to it, and if it was me in that situation I would rely on B's decision as to whom the deer belonged to.
If you have to rely on 'B's decision to make that decision, well all I can say is you have a much different definition of what a friend is.
01-20-2010, 03:15 AM
#35
Dominant Buck
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Ramsey , Indiana
Posts: 22,545
If B is truly a bud he'll relinquish the deer to A, but in reality that doesn't happen often. The kill shot/possession gets it, which is how most game wardens will rule it.
01-20-2010, 03:58 AM
#36
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Hampton Virginia
Posts: 1,607
When I was 17 I shot a pretty nice buck at 20 steps and it ran 150 yards to the guy next to me. He was an older guy and said the deer was running fine across the field so he shot it. 10 years later when that guy dies the son gave me the horns and said that the deer was falling down and could barely move so he wanted me to have it. I thought I made a good shot but sometimes the deer just find a way to keep on going!
01-20-2010, 06:56 AM
#37
Typical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 564
Isn't that all that should matter in the eyes of a hunter that says anyone that breaks any hunting law no matter how trivial it is a no good wortless poacher (there are lots of members on this board that feel that way, yet not very many see that B has a legal obligation to tag the deer).
01-20-2010, 07:00 AM
#38
Banned
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: South Cackalaky
Posts: 124
So petty.....try it in a duck blind.
01-20-2010, 07:02 AM
#39
Fork Horn
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Warren MI
Posts: 450
A's deer and if B has a problem with that, then shoot B and problem solved.
