not a clean kill

You did good, I wouldn't ever go back there and I would let them know why. Guide should get unemployed in a hurry if thats the kind of shooting he condones.
 
i feel you were in the right. probably the only reason the guide says you were wrong was they may have felt that you put yourself too close to a wounded animal? that would be my only guess as to anything you did wrong? not sure though. but i must say i would have risked it and put the animal down too.
 
You did the ethical thing. Were it I, I'd let the outfit know I don't plan to patronize them again if they can't recognize that.
 
Just got an email back from the ranch. the guide said he did in fact see that it wasn't down. and agrees that it should have had a second shot in her after only a few minutes, but yet still walked away from the animal. I am absolutely disgusted with both the guide, and the shooter. I will not be returning there ever again. and everyone right Shame on them. both of them.
 
You did right. Never let an animal suffer.

I'll relate what I saw last weekend too.

Last weekend was opening deer season here in Kentucky. My buddy shot a decent 10 pointer and as we dropped it off to get processed, I noticed a doe that had been head shot. Not my preferred kill method but hey, quick and painless, so I thought.

The boys working there pulled the doe up on a chain pull and got the skin off her. At that point, everyone was shocked to see that the doe had been shot at least 4 times in the top rear quarter. The shooter was in a tree stand and it looked like he shot right above her. Her rear end was tore up with bullet holes. She had also been shot once in the ribs. Finally, as mentioned, she was shot in the head.

As I looked at this doe, I guessed she was shot once in spine and dropped. As she tried to crawl away, they put 3 more rounds in her rear quarter without bothering to get out of the stand. Those didn't kill her, so the hunter got out of the stand and shot her once through the ribs. The shot was too far back for a lung shot, so it didn't do the job. Finally, they got around to killing her with a head shot.

Too me, if you can't do the right thing while hunting, you shouldn't be hunting.

Again, you did the right thing. I wish every hunter out there did too.
 
That is just bout the most darnest thing to watch a animal suffer! I would have finished him off, why watch him. That guy must have been speacial in the head!You did the right thing though going to go put it down instead of watching that..
 
You did the right thing here. The problem was the hunter was a disgrace and the guys that pass them selfs off as guides are the worse possible to allow the hunter to do nothing. They should have been telling the (hunter) to shoot again and again till it was died or made the finish shot them selfs. Sounds like a real first class operation so besure all know the name of this place so all can stay away.
 
Humane shot

First off I think you did the right thing.The person that I find at most fault is the guide he should have stayed until they were able to walk up and inspect the animal.It almost sounds like he was more interested in a profitable hunt than a proper one.
 
You done good.

I'd be interested in knowing the name of this place. If enough people call them and express their displeasure maybe they'll reform their standards.
 
I've never seen a better situation for the old saying....

"A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do."

You stepped up to the plate & did the right thing.

You ARE a man, and a respectable one at that.
 
Send the guide -- and the ranch itself -- a link to this thread. There is a clear consensus here about acceptable and unacceptable hunter ethics. That ranch will lose business if this is typical of their practices.

pax
 
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