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Last year while deer hunting(either sex)I mistakenly shot a wild llama far into the woods. There were no ranches or houses within ten miles. Rather than just leave it, I dressed it out, took it home and butchered same. Should I have just left it to rot? I was wondering what other ferrel domestic animals hunters have seen out in the wilderness? The meat was delicious, but there were a lot of neck bones which made great soups.
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Don't want to sound too critical, but you should know your target. Deer and llamas do not really look the same.
i've heard of another person doin this in montana. but he got fined and lost his hunting and fising privaleges for life, which is the way it should be. i don't mean to sound harsh but like huntcamp said, you should always positivly know your target. what if someone is walkin around the woods in carhartts? i just hope you learned from your mistake and take your time from now on.
huntcamp thats what I was thinkining, same thing happend in MT a cauple years ago.
You did the right thing in my eyes. I think I would have done the same thing.
Did you shave him to make a nice set warm clothes?lol I gotta agree that you should ID your taget.
a highschool kid about 3 years ago shot an elk with his 300 win mag at 350 yards, dropped it dead. as he walked up i guess he was within about 100 yards and he saw the huge tines and ran to his "huge deer." they didn't even dress the buck elk, instead he called the game and parks and turned himself in. he didn't get his hunting priveleges taken away at all. he was rewarded with his honesty and his fine was 200 dollars instead of what could of been over 700. at 300 yards an elk and a whitetail can look very similar. a lama and a deer? dude, you're kidding me right?
In the hunter safte course the teacher was a DEC and he sead that on opening day he walked up to some "hunter" from NY city that was cleaning a goat, he thought that he had shot a doe. If I were you I'd make some gloves.
You've got to know your target, and whats behind your target. Like just about everyone else here has said a deer and a lama dont look alike.
Just learn from your mistake next time and distinguish
the difference of your target from a lama to a deer......I'm glad you enjoy the meat......
I'm honestly speechless over this. Were you here in Montana where the other DIY llama hunters come?
if you cant tell what it is dont shoot move closer untill you can
That's pathetic.
First a question- What circumstance precluded the confusion in distinguishing the Llama and a deer? There has got to be a good reason.
Second- I am glad you chose to make use of the animal. The greater mistake would have been leaving it to rot.
The trouble, I hear, with eating Llama is that after several meals you begin to smell awful and have the uncontrollable urge to spit when you are ticked off... after all, you are what you eat!
Had a fella one day ask me while on horseback deer hunting if I was scared of someone shooting my horse? Not near as afraid of the person who shot it!
Llama? Deer? Deer? Llama? Person?
You scare me!
I din't know we had wild Llama's in this country. At least you ate it, but it should still be Alive in the 'wild'
I saw a llama in the deep woods hereabouts too. It was the talk of the deer camp. It had wandered waaay off a farm.
We just let it be.
On another occasion, I saw a car with a goat tied to it on the NY State thruway during the southern zone deer season. Guy looked happy with his trophy.
i've seen peackock before just walking through the woods. I probably would have left the llama alone and asked some questions about it or something to the local DNR you never know what's going on.
all i can say is i am glad you dont hunt in my neck of the woods . but good for you for eating it
There are just some things you don't tell...
cooner, I gave you a +1 because I was going to write the exact same thing. I also agree w/jlfreeborn, if I did something that goofy, I wouldn't tell.
Glad you ate it. but you do need to pay better attention.
hmmmmmmmm...
thats a pretty big mistake there dude...I would suggest some game identification classes and maybe a pair of eyeglasses..
i also wanted to mention i heard once of people strapping antlers to a goat and letting it run through the timber. whoever shot it or even at it was not allowed to hunt with those guys ever again. something to think about before you pull the trigger.
Sure it wasn't your neighbor's dog you ate? Not to sound harsh, but you shot an animal you couldn't ID. (?) That's worse than taking Texas-heart-shots (no offense to my huntin' bros' down south).
YOU SHOULD KNOW YOUR TARGET!!!THANK GOD IT WAS JUST A DAMN LLAMA.AT LEAST YOU ATE IT.AND WHO WANTS A BUNCH OF FERAL ANIMALS RUNNIN OUR GAME OUT OF HOUSE AN HOME.
YOU SHOULD KNOW YOUR TARGET!!!THANK GOD IT WAS JUST A DAMN LLAMA.AT LEAST YOU ATE IT.AND WHO WANTS A BUNCH OF FERAL ANIMALS RUNNIN OUR GAME OUT OF HOUSE AN HOME.
No excuse for that!
John makes a good point. Shooting it might not be so bad if you knew it was a llama and were consciously killing that llama. But you didn't.
yeah i agree no excuss sure it might be a lamma this time but whats it going to be next time? PAY ATTENTION AND ID YOUR GAME god i knew that before i even started hunting
but you did do the right thing some people would have made the mistake and just left the animal there to rot so at least you didnt waste it
we do have to give him credit for that
ya and atleast he knew it was a llama, we had a guy in montana a couple years ago that shot a llama and never knew it was a llama till he he took it to the processor! that guy was from NY to, hhhmmmm.....i think i see a trend here.
a wild llama "far into the woods" is a freebie. domestic critters are not to be in the woods. i've always wanted to try llama! PS: yous gut nutin to be apologizin fer anywho. good for you Sam, you fed your family and maintained the natural order of things in
the woods. you sir a true conservative and i salute you.;}
reading these posts has me convinced that most yous jerks never get out of your subaru's to hunt. no one knows what conditions were like when he Sam took that llama. was it morning or eve. was it sunny, overcast in the timber, raining, or last light at 150 yards in a bit of misty weather. let he who is without sin cast the first stone. seems to me no harm was done to anyone and nothing but good was the product. most y'all are nut right.
Wow... I hope you don't live anywhere near me. That is pretty sad. I guess you do get some credit for at least eating it though. Better to make use of it than to completely waste it.
As a Conservation Officer I investigated over 75 negligent shootings in 35 years. You will notice I said negligent shootings and not hunting accidents. Every time I investigated a negligent shooting it gave me cold chills when the hunter told me the hunter he had just killed looked like a deer. It was always a mystery to me but then there are people like you who admit to doing things like this. I taught over 500 hunter safety classes and I'm still teaching then as a volunteer and one of the main rules for a safe hunter was to identify your target. You need to enroll in a hunter education course before the next deer season, and tell me what state and where you hunting so I don't go anywhere close. Please take a hunter education course before you kill some legal law abiding hunter. PLEASE.
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Don't want to sound too critical, but you should know your target. Deer and llamas do not really look the same.
i've heard of another person doin this in montana. but he got fined and lost his hunting and fising privaleges for life, which is the way it should be. i don't mean to sound harsh but like huntcamp said, you should always positivly know your target. what if someone is walkin around the woods in carhartts? i just hope you learned from your mistake and take your time from now on.
I'm honestly speechless over this. Were you here in Montana where the other DIY llama hunters come?
all i can say is i am glad you dont hunt in my neck of the woods . but good for you for eating it
You've got to know your target, and whats behind your target. Like just about everyone else here has said a deer and a lama dont look alike.
if you cant tell what it is dont shoot move closer untill you can
First a question- What circumstance precluded the confusion in distinguishing the Llama and a deer? There has got to be a good reason.
Second- I am glad you chose to make use of the animal. The greater mistake would have been leaving it to rot.
The trouble, I hear, with eating Llama is that after several meals you begin to smell awful and have the uncontrollable urge to spit when you are ticked off... after all, you are what you eat!
Had a fella one day ask me while on horseback deer hunting if I was scared of someone shooting my horse? Not near as afraid of the person who shot it!
Llama? Deer? Deer? Llama? Person?
You scare me!
I saw a llama in the deep woods hereabouts too. It was the talk of the deer camp. It had wandered waaay off a farm.
We just let it be.
On another occasion, I saw a car with a goat tied to it on the NY State thruway during the southern zone deer season. Guy looked happy with his trophy.
huntcamp thats what I was thinkining, same thing happend in MT a cauple years ago.
You did the right thing in my eyes. I think I would have done the same thing.
Did you shave him to make a nice set warm clothes?lol I gotta agree that you should ID your taget.
a highschool kid about 3 years ago shot an elk with his 300 win mag at 350 yards, dropped it dead. as he walked up i guess he was within about 100 yards and he saw the huge tines and ran to his "huge deer." they didn't even dress the buck elk, instead he called the game and parks and turned himself in. he didn't get his hunting priveleges taken away at all. he was rewarded with his honesty and his fine was 200 dollars instead of what could of been over 700. at 300 yards an elk and a whitetail can look very similar. a lama and a deer? dude, you're kidding me right?
In the hunter safte course the teacher was a DEC and he sead that on opening day he walked up to some "hunter" from NY city that was cleaning a goat, he thought that he had shot a doe. If I were you I'd make some gloves.
Just learn from your mistake next time and distinguish
the difference of your target from a lama to a deer......I'm glad you enjoy the meat......
I din't know we had wild Llama's in this country. At least you ate it, but it should still be Alive in the 'wild'
i've seen peackock before just walking through the woods. I probably would have left the llama alone and asked some questions about it or something to the local DNR you never know what's going on.
There are just some things you don't tell...
cooner, I gave you a +1 because I was going to write the exact same thing. I also agree w/jlfreeborn, if I did something that goofy, I wouldn't tell.
i also wanted to mention i heard once of people strapping antlers to a goat and letting it run through the timber. whoever shot it or even at it was not allowed to hunt with those guys ever again. something to think about before you pull the trigger.
Sure it wasn't your neighbor's dog you ate? Not to sound harsh, but you shot an animal you couldn't ID. (?) That's worse than taking Texas-heart-shots (no offense to my huntin' bros' down south).
Wow... I hope you don't live anywhere near me. That is pretty sad. I guess you do get some credit for at least eating it though. Better to make use of it than to completely waste it.
As a Conservation Officer I investigated over 75 negligent shootings in 35 years. You will notice I said negligent shootings and not hunting accidents. Every time I investigated a negligent shooting it gave me cold chills when the hunter told me the hunter he had just killed looked like a deer. It was always a mystery to me but then there are people like you who admit to doing things like this. I taught over 500 hunter safety classes and I'm still teaching then as a volunteer and one of the main rules for a safe hunter was to identify your target. You need to enroll in a hunter education course before the next deer season, and tell me what state and where you hunting so I don't go anywhere close. Please take a hunter education course before you kill some legal law abiding hunter. PLEASE.
That's pathetic.
Glad you ate it. but you do need to pay better attention.
hmmmmmmmm...
thats a pretty big mistake there dude...I would suggest some game identification classes and maybe a pair of eyeglasses..
YOU SHOULD KNOW YOUR TARGET!!!THANK GOD IT WAS JUST A DAMN LLAMA.AT LEAST YOU ATE IT.AND WHO WANTS A BUNCH OF FERAL ANIMALS RUNNIN OUR GAME OUT OF HOUSE AN HOME.
John makes a good point. Shooting it might not be so bad if you knew it was a llama and were consciously killing that llama. But you didn't.
we do have to give him credit for that
a wild llama "far into the woods" is a freebie. domestic critters are not to be in the woods. i've always wanted to try llama! PS: yous gut nutin to be apologizin fer anywho. good for you Sam, you fed your family and maintained the natural order of things in
the woods. you sir a true conservative and i salute you.;}
reading these posts has me convinced that most yous jerks never get out of your subaru's to hunt. no one knows what conditions were like when he Sam took that llama. was it morning or eve. was it sunny, overcast in the timber, raining, or last light at 150 yards in a bit of misty weather. let he who is without sin cast the first stone. seems to me no harm was done to anyone and nothing but good was the product. most y'all are nut right.
YOU SHOULD KNOW YOUR TARGET!!!THANK GOD IT WAS JUST A DAMN LLAMA.AT LEAST YOU ATE IT.AND WHO WANTS A BUNCH OF FERAL ANIMALS RUNNIN OUR GAME OUT OF HOUSE AN HOME.
No excuse for that!
yeah i agree no excuss sure it might be a lamma this time but whats it going to be next time? PAY ATTENTION AND ID YOUR GAME god i knew that before i even started hunting
but you did do the right thing some people would have made the mistake and just left the animal there to rot so at least you didnt waste it
ya and atleast he knew it was a llama, we had a guy in montana a couple years ago that shot a llama and never knew it was a llama till he he took it to the processor! that guy was from NY to, hhhmmmm.....i think i see a trend here.
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