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What do you do?? I had a nice 8 point buck (that I have passed in archery season) come in on another property adjoining my property where a hunter who has never hunted this spot before(as far as I know) and stop within 100 yards he shot 2 never hit shot a 3rd time the deer ran off to the woods and he shot 4 more times without hitting it. It ran to the fence where it jumped into a cut corn field that I did not have permission on. I stopped it with a grunt. I looked at it through my scope and seen the let front leg dangling. No holes and no blood coming from it. My question is do you take the shot on another persons property that you do not have permission on to put down an injured deer.
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personally i would take my chances i cant stand to see and animal suffer
Alot depends on if you know the person and if its posted or not. I would take the shot If I knew the person or knew if the land is not posted. Especially on a wounded deer. What was that guy shootin with? Thats alot of shells and lead flyin through the air to not hit something!!
Trust me I wanted to shoot the deer I had him stopped within 100yrds it would have been a certain final shot. I did not know landowner or the hunter. It sounded like a 12 guage. I imagine that he is just some guy that hunts opening weekend puts no time into scouting sighting his weapon in or hanging stands. He obvisousley is just a deer shooter not a hunter.
Tough situation. I probably would have shot and then sorted it out. Worst case scenario, you lose a deer you passed on already, but put it out of its misery. Sorry your neighbor is lousy.
Really hard to say. Shooting on another persons property is a really iffy situation. As stated before, it all depends on the relationship with the neighbors. But in all honestly, he wouldn't have gone far after I had him stopped and he was wounded. Most neighbors will understand if the buck was previously wounded before heading on their property.
there is a fine line when it comes to that sometimes doing the right things involves doing the wrong the things
I would have put down the deer for the other hunter, and then sorted things out as they came.
Legally, no way you can do that. Ethically, I'd probably do it myself.
You would open yourself up to a law suit but it is right to put down a suffering animal.
Most jurisdictions I have hunted do allow you to pursue wounded game onto private land to dispatch it and end suffering. But you better be able to prove that it was shot on the other place. Personally, I would have dumped that buck to put it out of its misery, went to the property owner and asked to remove it. In the event that failed, I'd call the game wardens just to make sure that at least the carcass is taken care of. Depending on local regulations, the game warden might be able to retrieve it for you.
Incidentally, in the event that you happen to wound an animal that makes it onto closed federal property - game refuges, national parks, etc. - you need only contact the law enforcement officials at the unit and they will escort you to where you can either resume tracking or dispatch the animal. DO NOT enter the federal property first. If I could safely kill the wounded animal by shooting from outside the unit into the unit, I probably would. Not sure it is entirely legal and I was a park ranger for years. But it is entirely ethical to end the suffering quickly if possible. Most rangers would probably look the other way on this one. Key is to be able to prove you did not shoot the animal on the unit to start with. That's not always possible so I usually avoid hunting in the vicinity of a closed unit.
In some states its illegal to wound an animal and not make a whole hearted effort to recover the animal. In some states it is legal to go onto a person's property and put down an animal. It might tick the neigbor off but you are doing the right thing. Check your local game/hunting laws.
I ended up talking to the shooter a week later and we talked about the above situation. He thought that he had made a great shot on this deer and had no idea that I had watched the entire situation unfold. When he told me about it he said that him and his buddies tracked said deer for 2 days with no luck of recovering. He said they could hear it run through a standing corn field but it sounded like it would run a ways and then fall over. That is when I told him that he had shot the leg. It is my thoughts that he tracked it without the permission of the landowners so in my beliefs he was just as wrong as I would've been to shoot it. I now have permission to shoot onto said property all ways around this paticular woods. Also the shooter said he is more of a Coon hunter than a deer hunter but all of his friends had great deer on the wall and he wanted to be like them. He had the oppurtunity but without the practice and time invested he made a bad shot. Thank you for all of your responses and they will be remembered if and when this situation ever bears its ugly head again.
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personally i would take my chances i cant stand to see and animal suffer
Alot depends on if you know the person and if its posted or not. I would take the shot If I knew the person or knew if the land is not posted. Especially on a wounded deer. What was that guy shootin with? Thats alot of shells and lead flyin through the air to not hit something!!
Trust me I wanted to shoot the deer I had him stopped within 100yrds it would have been a certain final shot. I did not know landowner or the hunter. It sounded like a 12 guage. I imagine that he is just some guy that hunts opening weekend puts no time into scouting sighting his weapon in or hanging stands. He obvisousley is just a deer shooter not a hunter.
Really hard to say. Shooting on another persons property is a really iffy situation. As stated before, it all depends on the relationship with the neighbors. But in all honestly, he wouldn't have gone far after I had him stopped and he was wounded. Most neighbors will understand if the buck was previously wounded before heading on their property.
there is a fine line when it comes to that sometimes doing the right things involves doing the wrong the things
I would have put down the deer for the other hunter, and then sorted things out as they came.
Legally, no way you can do that. Ethically, I'd probably do it myself.
You would open yourself up to a law suit but it is right to put down a suffering animal.
Most jurisdictions I have hunted do allow you to pursue wounded game onto private land to dispatch it and end suffering. But you better be able to prove that it was shot on the other place. Personally, I would have dumped that buck to put it out of its misery, went to the property owner and asked to remove it. In the event that failed, I'd call the game wardens just to make sure that at least the carcass is taken care of. Depending on local regulations, the game warden might be able to retrieve it for you.
Incidentally, in the event that you happen to wound an animal that makes it onto closed federal property - game refuges, national parks, etc. - you need only contact the law enforcement officials at the unit and they will escort you to where you can either resume tracking or dispatch the animal. DO NOT enter the federal property first. If I could safely kill the wounded animal by shooting from outside the unit into the unit, I probably would. Not sure it is entirely legal and I was a park ranger for years. But it is entirely ethical to end the suffering quickly if possible. Most rangers would probably look the other way on this one. Key is to be able to prove you did not shoot the animal on the unit to start with. That's not always possible so I usually avoid hunting in the vicinity of a closed unit.
Tough situation. I probably would have shot and then sorted it out. Worst case scenario, you lose a deer you passed on already, but put it out of its misery. Sorry your neighbor is lousy.
In some states its illegal to wound an animal and not make a whole hearted effort to recover the animal. In some states it is legal to go onto a person's property and put down an animal. It might tick the neigbor off but you are doing the right thing. Check your local game/hunting laws.
I ended up talking to the shooter a week later and we talked about the above situation. He thought that he had made a great shot on this deer and had no idea that I had watched the entire situation unfold. When he told me about it he said that him and his buddies tracked said deer for 2 days with no luck of recovering. He said they could hear it run through a standing corn field but it sounded like it would run a ways and then fall over. That is when I told him that he had shot the leg. It is my thoughts that he tracked it without the permission of the landowners so in my beliefs he was just as wrong as I would've been to shoot it. I now have permission to shoot onto said property all ways around this paticular woods. Also the shooter said he is more of a Coon hunter than a deer hunter but all of his friends had great deer on the wall and he wanted to be like them. He had the oppurtunity but without the practice and time invested he made a bad shot. Thank you for all of your responses and they will be remembered if and when this situation ever bears its ugly head again.
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