Have you ever found someone else's dead deer?
10-25-2008, 12:39 PM
#11
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RE: Have you ever found someone else's dead deer?
I find on average three to four uncovered deer every year on the public ground I hunt. That is usually in bow season alone ! Last year I found a six point and three doe. The year before besides the few doeI also found a buck with it's antlerssawed off. What a shame.
10-25-2008, 01:05 PM
#12
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Virginia / West Virginia
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RE: Have you ever found someone else's dead deer?
I found a big doe 2 years ago out behind my house. I was on my annual "go pick out a Christmas tree" walk with my family,and we walked up on her. She was still warm....gut shot (gun) with NO blood around at all. Hole was plugged up. It was a Sunday afternoon....we can't hunt on Sundays here, and by the looks of it she was probably shot Saturday evening and ran over onto my property. It definitelytook her a while to die. I gave her to my neighbor. He was happy 
I have found other deer that I know were road hunter losses over the years, one was a nice real 8pt for our area. Around 115". It had been gutshot and ran a good ways from the road. (out of season too.. [:@])
I have found other deer that I know were road hunter losses over the years, one was a nice real 8pt for our area. Around 115". It had been gutshot and ran a good ways from the road. (out of season too.. [:@])
10-25-2008, 03:21 PM
#14
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RE: Have you ever found someone else's dead deer?
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Many many moons ago when I was stationed in North Dakota I was walking out the long way from a bow hunt and found a small fork buck laying about fifteen yards just inside the woods. I walked out into the field and waited about ten minutes to see if the only other person who was allowed to hunt this property would drive by. Right as I was getting ready to go talk with the farmer who owned the property about the dead deer a guy drove by asking if I had seen a deer come running out of the woods wounded.
I Told him no but I had found a dead buck and it was in the woods behind me about fifteen yards. The guy was so amazed I did not take his deer he offered me twenty dollars))). Needless to say I turned it down, come to find out he was the adjoining property owner hunting on this property. He was so impressed that I did not bag and tag his deer he offered to let me hunt his property.
So in the end I did the right thing and got about 1000 more acres of land to hunt))).
Dave
Many many moons ago when I was stationed in North Dakota I was walking out the long way from a bow hunt and found a small fork buck laying about fifteen yards just inside the woods. I walked out into the field and waited about ten minutes to see if the only other person who was allowed to hunt this property would drive by. Right as I was getting ready to go talk with the farmer who owned the property about the dead deer a guy drove by asking if I had seen a deer come running out of the woods wounded.
I Told him no but I had found a dead buck and it was in the woods behind me about fifteen yards. The guy was so amazed I did not take his deer he offered me twenty dollars))). Needless to say I turned it down, come to find out he was the adjoining property owner hunting on this property. He was so impressed that I did not bag and tag his deer he offered to let me hunt his property.
So in the end I did the right thing and got about 1000 more acres of land to hunt))).
Dave
Well done.
10-27-2008, 12:38 PM
#15
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
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RE: Have you ever found someone else's dead deer?
Ihave only found one. It was on Public land in the big woods of the Shawnee National Forest while still hunting. It was a good sized Doe found mid-morning on the opening day of slug season. She was hit a little far back and was just starting to stiffen up. I backtracked the blood trail until it ended without seeing any sign of who had shot it. I just resumed my hunt and left it laying. I checked on it the next day and the Coyotes had eaten a good deal of it.
10-27-2008, 12:48 PM
#16
Typical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Southern Maryland (St. Mary\'s)
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RE: Have you ever found someone else's dead deer?
Several. Last year I found the body (less the head) of what had to be a very, very nice buck. I came across the smell first and followed it about 80 yards to the carcass. Only the head had been taken off of what was a very big bodied deer. I was the only one with permission to hunt this property so itmademe even more angry that someone had done this on top of tresspassing. I think I know who did it, but the land owner did not want me to confront him.
10-27-2008, 02:21 PM
#18
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RE: Have you ever found someone else's dead deer?
I found this one.
Through some interesting circumstances, I was able to find who had shot him (during shotgun season, five weeks earlier) and give him the rack.
Through some interesting circumstances, I was able to find who had shot him (during shotgun season, five weeks earlier) and give him the rack.
10-27-2008, 02:35 PM
#19
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Florissant, Missouri
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RE: Have you ever found someone else's dead deer?
I was back in the woods with a couple of my buddies playing paintball about 3 years ago. Me and one of my buddies were hiding behind a big pile of branches and leaves and he was kinda sitting down on a stump. Then I heard him cursing and he stood up and got shot. Then he showed us what he was sitting on. It was hind half of a doe that was half hanging out of the pile. Arrow still sticking out of it. It was pretty nasty at that point though. It looked as though it had been there a while.
10-27-2008, 02:39 PM
#20
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Blanchester Ohio USA
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RE: Have you ever found someone else's dead deer?
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I have found other deer that I know were road hunter losses over the years, one was a nice real 8pt for our area. Around 115". It had been gutshot and ran a good ways from the road. (out of season too.. [:@])
I have found other deer that I know were road hunter losses over the years, one was a nice real 8pt for our area. Around 115". It had been gutshot and ran a good ways from the road. (out of season too.. [:@])
BTW the only one I found was right near you in the public area just east of Charles town. It was a buck shot in the rear. It stunk and was in some think stuff. Obviously someone had jumped it and slung lead at it. It was dead a week I'm sure. It was a small 4 or six point.