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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????

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Should have been tagged antlered, because when he first saw the deer, it still had horns.

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i agree with smitty... it had antlers when it was hit..

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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.

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maybe its not the same deer.....

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Ithink you did the right thing by tagging it antlerless-even if it had antlers before you found it, dont think GW would like it too much bringing it in tagged as buck w/no antlers. jmo.

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I would tag it as antlerless.

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I never would have shot it in the first place.

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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.

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Well he shot it with a buck tag in mind! rcw280 this is different because we are talking minutes here not months. Should have tagged it a buck.

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Eastwood, yes he is sure it was the same deer, as i said the arrow never exited the body, so it was still stuck in there. My uncle identified it as his arrow. Unless some one shot the exact same arrows.....and also he found the identical antler he saw when he shot it. about 4 feet away. and rcw, im aware of the rules for antlered and antlerless in WI seeing as how i live and hunt in the state.

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tagged as antlerless .

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Here in Texas, if the antlers have broken through the skin, it is considered an antlered deer! If he shed them, then the skin would have still been broken. I don't know what the regs are in your state though.

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it depends on what I wanted to shoot next.......LOL;)

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It was antlerless when it was tagged.
Last year I heard a guy shot a buck; and when he found it, the antlers had fallen off. I am not sure how he tagged it.

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Tough call. I'd consider it an antlered deer, but try convincing the game warden of that. S

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[X(] IMO it's a no brainer. Use antlered tag. He saw the rack, took the shot and identified it as his. Same as if one side was missing, a shot was taken and the other sheared off after colliding with a tree. He's the fella that's gotta look himself in the mirror every night. Besides, can't you see a Game Warden saying, "excuse me pardner, do you always carry one side of antlers to do your rattling with"? " Oh, and by the way when you gutted your deer did'nt you notice that double-barrel he was sportin between them hind legs"?

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if you want to take a chance on a citation tag it as a buck but why pay the fine. also warden said even if shot as doe if broken antler was over 3 inch would have had t use buck tag did not matter what we thought it was.

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Ok first of all the antlers were not broken, they were SHED, not broken SHED which means there were no "three inch stubs" (rcw280). And Jimpok you might not know about rules for WI tags but it is buck or doe, its antler or atlerless, so if a nyb buck was shot, it would be antlerless cuz it has anlters under 3 inches. It has nothing to do with the sex of the deer.

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I would have put an antlerless on it if I had one. If not, it wuold have been my either sex.

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At the time all he had was 2 antlerless and a antlered, no either sex.

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If I was the game warden/conservation officer that stopped you, I'd probably let you go - but I bet many GW's/CO's wouldn't.

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Kimber Ruger, are you a GW/CO in real life?

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no, sorry, didn't mean to imply I was, just telling you what **I** would do as the officer.

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ooo ok. haha