What would you do??
12-04-2005, 08:10 PM
#11
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 40,154
RE: What would you do??
I did the same thing with a 14 point years ago. Yes guys, he scored 14 points. He was just pushing big with a 6 point brow tine. Go figure. His back hip was broke and he was moving very little. I snuck up on him and dropped him into history.
This year I saw a severely messed up 8 point with a broken hip from at least last spring. I was going to drop him if I got the shot even though I'm holding out for something bigger in the contest. It was too bad to watch him drag his back leg around. He has survived all summer long like that but I still would have dropped him. I never got the shot but it needs to be done.
One other time I shot a deer with a messed up rack. When it came to butchering him, his hind quarter with the old wound, was infected real bad. I trashed the whole deer. Was that right or just paranoid? You tell me.
This year I saw a severely messed up 8 point with a broken hip from at least last spring. I was going to drop him if I got the shot even though I'm holding out for something bigger in the contest. It was too bad to watch him drag his back leg around. He has survived all summer long like that but I still would have dropped him. I never got the shot but it needs to be done.
One other time I shot a deer with a messed up rack. When it came to butchering him, his hind quarter with the old wound, was infected real bad. I trashed the whole deer. Was that right or just paranoid? You tell me.
12-04-2005, 08:27 PM
#13
Typical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Livonia,new york
Posts: 564
RE: What would you do??
i would have done the same thing. i also would have taken a real good look and see if it looked like CWD. doesn't sound like it from your post. poor guy sounded like he wouldn't have made it through the winter anyway. i think you did the right thing.
12-05-2005, 07:05 AM
#14
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location:
Posts: 21,043
RE: What would you do??
I'll go so far as to sy THIS, too....
I don't care if you had a tag left, or not. You did the right thing. If it happens to me....and I don't have a tag.....I'll still report it.....and look 'em right in the eyes.
What you did was humane.
Jeff
I don't care if you had a tag left, or not. You did the right thing. If it happens to me....and I don't have a tag.....I'll still report it.....and look 'em right in the eyes.
What you did was humane.
Jeff
12-05-2005, 07:13 AM
#15
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: OH
Posts: 379
RE: What would you do??
I wouldn't have tagged it, and I wouldn't have reported it either...if it looked like it was going to stay where it was for awhile, and I was near a road, I might try to call the game warden to let him put it down...otherwise, if it was obvious the thing was suffering, I'd just dispatch him quickly. Some game wardens would hammer you for that, because as far as I know, there isn't anything in the code about putting wounded deer down. 
12-05-2005, 03:50 PM
#20
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Virginia / West Virginia
Posts: 4,906
RE: What would you do??
I did the same thing 2 weeks ago.
It was opening day of rifle and I jumped some deer while walking in to my stand. They ran on the neighbors property, and a few minutes later I heard a shot. It was still dark, and I mean 15 minutes before light, way dark. I couldn't believe it, I could barely see the ground. So about 20 minutes later here comes this little buck hobbling along, shot in the hind qtr, dragging his leg. Pissed me off. I would never have taken that deer, but I was forced to put him down. Morons like that have no business being in the woods. [:'(]
The only consolation to it was that I had my young son come help me "find" the blood trail, trail it for me and find the deer, and help me gut and drag it back to the house. He was really excited about that, so a bad situation turned out good.He said. "man this is awesome!" Made my day
It was opening day of rifle and I jumped some deer while walking in to my stand. They ran on the neighbors property, and a few minutes later I heard a shot. It was still dark, and I mean 15 minutes before light, way dark. I couldn't believe it, I could barely see the ground. So about 20 minutes later here comes this little buck hobbling along, shot in the hind qtr, dragging his leg. Pissed me off. I would never have taken that deer, but I was forced to put him down. Morons like that have no business being in the woods. [:'(]
The only consolation to it was that I had my young son come help me "find" the blood trail, trail it for me and find the deer, and help me gut and drag it back to the house. He was really excited about that, so a bad situation turned out good.He said. "man this is awesome!" Made my day