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hunting question
- Thread starter ryanscott
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camper4lyfe
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I was taught during my hunter safety course that whoever shoots it first, and can prove it (blood trail), gets it.
davlandrum
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I'm going to say this is a situation that fits my signature line quote.
FrankenMauser
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My family has had a few occurrences of, "Hey, that's mine!" (Hunting in very low populations areas, oddly enough.)
Tow of the incidents didn't have a mark on the animal, other than the fatal shot.
In all cases... The choice made, was to avoid a confrontation with an angry person in possession of a firearm. They walked away, and let the jerks/idiots/terrible shots have 'their' animals.
Tow of the incidents didn't have a mark on the animal, other than the fatal shot.
In all cases... The choice made, was to avoid a confrontation with an angry person in possession of a firearm. They walked away, and let the jerks/idiots/terrible shots have 'their' animals.
We make a couple of drives during the season...all my uncles, aunts, cousins, sister and nephews and nieces and my daughters we get together (sometimes 50 strong) and we divide into two groups--sitters and walkers...The old and/or lame sit; the young and/or healthy beat the bush pushing the deer ahead of them to the sitters...who then proceed to shoot as many deer as they can--although the pushers do get chances at back-tracking deer as well...does, bucks, yearlings, hinds, hearts, stags even bear...
We are meat hunters, first and foremost, so head don't matter and the area we hunt allows both sexes...at the end of the hunt, whatever is shot is divided equally amongst everyone who participated...We also try to rotate the shooters and pushers on each drive and some of the older relatives or fiends are satisfied with shooting their animal and just let their sitting position go to a youngster...Everyone has a license and a tag and when all the tags are filled we stop...
This year we had 28 in total and got 26 deer (I got two, four of my daughters got one and the other two got two as well)...Everyone went home with most of a deer, all the hides get taken to the tanners and then turned into rendezvous clothes for those of us who participate, the rest into gloves and if there were any racks of note whomever shot it gets to mount them if they so wish otherwise they are turned into powder measures, buttons, knife or pistol handles, jewelry (especially rings) etc....
I shot this one lovely five point (or ten point western count) a 5 x 5 with thick base antlers and within two minutes of it dropping maybe 3 paces after I shot it, two hunters came out of the bush on its trail...I knew something was up so we met at the deer and they claimed they shot it and were tracking it and walking back along the trail there was a definite blood trail but all pink and frothy, lung shot, that would probably have killed the deer but not that day...One of the guys asks what I'm shooting, reaches into his pocket and gives me a cartridge as he shot the same...thing is it was his kill, slow and very painful for the animal kill but a kill nonetheless...Had he shot it in the rear haunch, sorry my kill!
The problem that arose is that they shot the animal from beside the mile cut dirt road onto my property, jumped the fence and tracked it so legally it still is my deer...If they shot it on my uncles property on the other side of the cut road and tracked it into my property, no big deal, they are doing the right thing by making an effort to retrieve their wounded animal...but then they would have ****** my uncle off and neither one of us had given them permission to hunt on our land...The next year they came and got permission from my uncle and my cousin who lives in the farmhouse on my farm (he leases the farm and house from me) and they were given it and have gotten it for about the last fourteen years now and they've always come out with at least one stag/buck...
We are meat hunters, first and foremost, so head don't matter and the area we hunt allows both sexes...at the end of the hunt, whatever is shot is divided equally amongst everyone who participated...We also try to rotate the shooters and pushers on each drive and some of the older relatives or fiends are satisfied with shooting their animal and just let their sitting position go to a youngster...Everyone has a license and a tag and when all the tags are filled we stop...
This year we had 28 in total and got 26 deer (I got two, four of my daughters got one and the other two got two as well)...Everyone went home with most of a deer, all the hides get taken to the tanners and then turned into rendezvous clothes for those of us who participate, the rest into gloves and if there were any racks of note whomever shot it gets to mount them if they so wish otherwise they are turned into powder measures, buttons, knife or pistol handles, jewelry (especially rings) etc....
I shot this one lovely five point (or ten point western count) a 5 x 5 with thick base antlers and within two minutes of it dropping maybe 3 paces after I shot it, two hunters came out of the bush on its trail...I knew something was up so we met at the deer and they claimed they shot it and were tracking it and walking back along the trail there was a definite blood trail but all pink and frothy, lung shot, that would probably have killed the deer but not that day...One of the guys asks what I'm shooting, reaches into his pocket and gives me a cartridge as he shot the same...thing is it was his kill, slow and very painful for the animal kill but a kill nonetheless...Had he shot it in the rear haunch, sorry my kill!
The problem that arose is that they shot the animal from beside the mile cut dirt road onto my property, jumped the fence and tracked it so legally it still is my deer...If they shot it on my uncles property on the other side of the cut road and tracked it into my property, no big deal, they are doing the right thing by making an effort to retrieve their wounded animal...but then they would have ****** my uncle off and neither one of us had given them permission to hunt on our land...The next year they came and got permission from my uncle and my cousin who lives in the farmhouse on my farm (he leases the farm and house from me) and they were given it and have gotten it for about the last fourteen years now and they've always come out with at least one stag/buck...
if you remain to hunt in the same spot after somebody has just shot isnt very smart bucause i dont know about where you are but in most places after a loud gunshot the deer dont really like to stay around that area.
I have shot deer and have had deer show up while I was gutting the first one.... Our (Nebraska) Firearm Season usually coincides with the peak of the rut, so bucks, particularly young ones, are absolutely brain-dead .... A few years back, I dropped a doe and and had to run a forkhorn off (I only had an "antlerless only" tag, or he'd have been bagged, too!) so I could field dress the doe......