Check This Out
12-25-2003, 06:52 PM
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Fork Horn
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Southern Wisconsin
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Check This Out
Alright about a week ago during late bow my uncle shot a nice 10 pointer with one side busted off, so acually it was a 5 pointer. Anyway he thought o yeah musta just got busted off. Ok he goes to look for the deer for about 3 hours, can't find. He knows he hit it because he SAW the arrow anter the body. Goes home goes back out with his son until its too dark to see. He goes out and has looked everywhere he thought the buck might have ran, he checks one more place that he has no faith in finding the deer in, but lone and behold, he finds it, only, its a doe????? He walks up to it and thinks, wat the heck im positive he had 5 points. Then he looks up and finds the side on the ground about 4 feet away. He concludes the buck didn't get it busted off, he sheded one side then got shot, then sheded the other before he died. He figures out that the reason he couldn't find any blood trail is beacuse the arrow entered from above but didn't exit the bottom, so the body cavity just filled up with blood, and none leaked out. So he tags it with his antlerless tag. I think that he should look into the exact rules on that, is it considered antlered, or not, it was antlered when he shot it soo...??? I mean that was a waste of a good doe tag, so what do you think it should have been, antlered, or antlerless????
12-25-2003, 08:39 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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RE: Check This Out
I am going to have to diasagree with you guys. yeah your right it had antlers when he shot it but is he tagging the deer alive when it had an antler or now when it is antlerless? Its an antlerless deer ur bringing to the tagging station. so unless they have a "had one antler when i shot tag" then i would tag it antlerless.
12-26-2003, 10:53 AM
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Fork Horn
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Wisconsin
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RE: Check This Out
antlerless her in WI it must have 3 inches of antler on deer. anumber of years ago took what we thought to be a big doe but when we got to it both horns were broken off at about 2 1/2 inches and put on antlerless tag. When registering a warden was there and ask him and he said even though at one time it was a legal buck with the horns broken had to use antlerless.