just watched a guy shoot a deer from the road
 

Today is opening day gun season and my day got cut short cause of my stupid cousins wedding. I was driving home to change and I see a pickup truck pulledover with a quad in the back then I see a guy get out with his rifle and lea it on his hood as I passed I looked to the left and theres an absolue monster standing there rite off the road like 10 feet in an open field. Im saying probly scored 170 inches and it was perfectly symetrical. I heard the gun shot and actually saw the deer run off slowly with its tail down so I no he got it :mad: he was literally a foot off the road when he shot:eek2:. People passing by had to have saw him it was unreal. A buck gets that big and is that stupid...i shoulda told my feeling on this i thought itd be obvious.....but it disgusts me what he did.how could u be proud of a deer u didnt hunt makes no sense i shoulda called dec

yeah, blame it on the buck and not the ******* poacher. You should have got his plate and reported him.

Yep, the guy needs busted for sure IMO.

I saw something like this happen once. Only the deer was hurt or something. It was standing out in a field next to the road and 2 guys were standing 10 feet from it talking about it. It just stood there looking at them. We left and came back about half an hour later and the deer was still standing there. A different truck was there this time and a guy got out and he had a gun. We stopped and talked to him. He said he thought the deer must have gotten hit by a car so he walked up to it and put a bullet in it. The deer didnt look hurt. it walked around a little bit and acted fine other than the obvious fact that it wasnt running from the people. (coulda been someones pet I guess) But this guy didnt shoot from the road. He walked 50 yards into the field.

AND one night we hit a doe so we called a cop. Before the cop got there the doe just laid there. STILL ALIVE. She got up and started walking. I got out of the car and walked up to her and just kept my hand on her back and guided her around in circles until the cop got there. She was hurt. The cop got out and shot at her 12 times and she didnt flinch. Then my brother asked the cop if he could shoot it because he had a shotgun in the car with slugs. So the cop said yeah. One shot is all it took. 10PM at night. Thats the only reason we didnt just shoot her right away. Oh yeah.. Brother was standing on the highway too. Just thought I'd share.

You shoulda layed on the horn and tried to get the deer to run off. I know he probably wouldn't since he was used to cars but it might have worked... Then flipped the dude off as you drove by.

well in some states you can shoot off the hood of the truck if you're past the ditch...

but i hear ya!

i dont think that deer was stupid at all he probly knew that field was a safe place till that a**hole showed up and made a stupid shot but i would of got his plates and reported it

It disgusts me that you didnt.
Whats the phrase? Oh, yeah. "If youre not a part of the solution, youre a part of the problem."

Exactly what I was thinking. Then start driving in a zig zag pattern because if he don't care to shoot a deer off of his hood he probably doesn't care to shoot YOU off his hood either! hahaha In VA they can take your truck if you shoot from it. Even if you are just leaning against it and not using it as a rest its still subject to siezure.

Was the road a paved and/or maintained road or a country dirt road?

What are the laws concerning shooting from a road in your state?

I don't know the facts about this guy and this buck but sometimes people just get lucky. If I were walking to a stand or driving down an unmaintained road and saw a bruiser standing there looking at me I would shoot too.

thats why hunters can get a bad name, people like that.

Your reasoning is complete bs. It makes no difference what kind of road you are on. It isn't whether it is legal to shot from the road it is an ethical thing. I know I would feel like a master hunter if I done that. And if you didn't have permission you would be tresspassing if it wasn't public land.

When I see a large buck in a feild driving to my stand to hunt I will stop admirer him and hope he makes it my way. But there is no way in hell legal or not I am shooting from the road or just off.

The only except to this would be a disabled person with a release from a DR and appoved my the state allowing him to hunt from his truck. I don't mean it ok if the said person drives around until he sees one to shot. The person should be hunting on ground he has permission to hunt and using his vechile as a stand not driving around the property.

I have watched them hunt that way in Texas on TV. Everyone just assumes the guy was doing something illegal. He may have owned the land and as long as he wasn't doing anything illegal more power to him.

Where in NY are you?

LMAO I can't believe that's even a legal law. One of the craziest hunting laws I've heard. Hun grab your coffee cup there's a buck in the field we're ditching it!!!!!!!!!!!!

Same law here, or one like it. If it's your land you can stop on the side of the road and shoot at anything on it.

I'm still a little unclear on something.....

Did your "stupid cousin" have a wedding OR did your cousin have a "stupid wedding."

Last year while driving down the highway, a beat up old car made a u turn in front of me heading back in my same direction. He flew off the highway probably going 40 mph, down an embankment and into the ditch. Just ahead of where he was stopping there were two does beside the highway. I blew my horn and they ran into the bushes. In my rearview I could see the man getting out of his car, but he was too late. As steep as the embankment was he probably had a hard time driving out of the ditch.

You should hear the stories I have heard about guys who have hunted with the indians up here. They go out at night in a pickup. A driver, passenger with a spotlight and a guys in the bed with rifles. Shine em and shoot em.

Even thinking about it makes me angry. If I ever saw somebody poach off a road I would have pulled over, called the police, the wardens and anybody else who would answer the phone.

That's no better than the people who shoot deer in their backyards in residential areas. They think they can get away with it because they use a bow.

This is why they make cell phones....I got a Game Warden on my speed dial..I've dealt with many folks out breaking the law fishing {Mostly cast netting for bass}

I carry binoculars to get the tag #.

A license plate and a call to the warden are easier than trying to weigh your chosen decisions later.

so u guys would be ok if the guy goes on the other side of the ditch and shot it if its not posted?

Let's see: Broad daylight, eye witnesss, vehicle description, license plate number, description of the perp, description of the deer, etc, etc. No call to DEC?? Am I the only one doubting this story. Yup:hit::hit:, as stated earlier, more than just a little part of the problem.

Ethics is nothing more than your personal beliefs. If you don't want to shoot from a road then don't but if someone else shoots from a road and isn't breaking any laws then let that person be.

I don't know the NY laws and I am not going to look them up but my reasoning is completely sound and legal depending on where you are hunting and what road or type of road you are on. Sometimes I climb a tree sitting right on a dirt road. Shot a buck last year right smack in the middle of a dirt road from 30 feet up in a tree. Regardless if I am walking, driving or sitting... if the deer is there and I am not violating any laws that deer is getting shot. Here in Florida you can shoot from a vehicle or boat so long as all vehicle/boat movement from the motor and/or sail has stopped and the motors are turned off. Certain roads you can not shoot from but certain roads you can.

What I get with your reasoning is that suppose you took a trip to Alaska to hunt caribou and a heard of caribou happen to walk a couple hundred yards from the front door of camp you would pass and walk miles in instead of taking a shot in your undies so you could feel like a "master hunter"? I'm gonna shoot from the front porch in my undies.


Same thing.... could be perfectly legal depending on where you live.

exactly! what difference do you think it makes to the deer anyway, how far away from the car youre standing, when you send a speeding chunk of lead through its body? why does everyone have to act like hunting has to be "hard" to be ethical. Personally I dont care how people kill their deer, just as long as they wait till the season opens and take only what they have tags for.

If I was talking about the people who did it legally I wouldn't have posted it.

holy cr** guys i said i was sorry i didnt call....why do people get murdered and people hear the gun shot yet nobody calls....cause people thi.k someone else will do it..was i his property idk i didnt get out to talk he was in jeans thats why i dont think so...thought this wa s a website to tell about huntin and interact i didnt no it was a website to rip on the thread poster..i said i was sorry i didnt call i cant change it now..my dad was drivig the car and he didnt turn back we just kept going. so how bout everyone takes a chill pill

If I saw a big buck from the road on state property or land I had permission to hunt on, you better believe Im gonna get out and try a shot from OFF the road. If that deer wants to just stand there, its his fault. Its perfectly legal if youre off the road and its land that youre allowed to hunt here in Indiana. Its illegal to shoot from a road. Thats how the DNR gets people with their decoys. They cant get them for poaching simply because their decoys arent real. All they can get them for is shooting from the road. If you have the opportunity to take a huge buck LEGALLY, why not do it? I would.

I'd do it if its legal. Deer arent religious icons. I dont worship deer like hindus worship cows. I show them deer enough damn respect as it is. Let the babies walk, admire the mothers, watch small bucks and let them just keep walking. Try and help them get better nutrition and all that good stuff. And I dont attend the Church of the Deer. Some people are just odd. Deer worshipers. lol.

Just my 2 cents. Not yours :)