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Post by diehard on Aug 9, 2010 22:01:50 GMT -5
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Post by Decatur on Aug 9, 2010 22:36:49 GMT -5
I love unique racks!
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Post by electrician on Aug 10, 2010 4:31:47 GMT -5
 this was sent to me last fall from around white county area. |
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Post by bigballer on Aug 10, 2010 6:16:09 GMT -5
I've culed two bucks in the last three years that had messed up racks. And I put down one buck in bow season about 5 years ago that I let the yotes have... Man that thing just stunk when I got too it. All three were shot in the leg with either an arrow or bullet. Sometimes you just have bad shooters in your area. That pic of the lady with the buck looks like that buck was old... I shot one when I was 17 that was a spike (one antler was 14 inch's long with huge base and the other one was broke off at 6 inch's) he had a little more gray on him then this one looks to have though... But that is a neet rack!!!  BB Keep us updated! |
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Post by oldhoyt on Aug 11, 2010 6:38:39 GMT -5
Deer are tougher than you might think. They survive quite well on 3 good legs. Since the rack is messed up due to injury there's no reason to "cull" such a deer. Also, I don't think it is legal to shoot a deer only to leave it to the coyotes.
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Post by Woody Williams on Aug 11, 2010 7:11:47 GMT -5
Deer are tougher than you might think. They survive quite well on 3 good legs. Since the rack is messed up due to injury there's no reason to "cull" such a deer. Also, I don't think it is legal to shoot a deer only to leave it to the coyotes. He will not pass on that antler deformation IF he gets a chance to breed. I would not "cull" him with my one and only buck tag. I don't think diehard said anything about leave it for the coyotes.. Electrician, That is one widl looking rack. Any idea what caused it? |
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Post by Decatur on Aug 11, 2010 11:43:04 GMT -5
Also, I don't think it is legal to shoot a deer only to leave it to the coyotes. It's not. It's considered wanton waste, which is against the law. |
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Post by oldhoyt on Aug 11, 2010 13:44:18 GMT -5
Woody - Diehard did not say anything about coyotes but the poster above my earlier post did. The rationale was that it was obvioulsy infected as it stunk when he got close to it, so decided not to tag.
I can almost see feeling bad for a wounded buck that is not really what I'm after and burning my buck tag on it, but not quite. I would shoot a wounded doe, and tag it, if I thought most of the meat would still be good. Otherwise I'd pass.
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Post by Woody Williams on Aug 11, 2010 14:05:21 GMT -5
Woody - Diehard did not say anything about coyotes but the poster above my earlier post did. The rationale was that it was obvioulsy infected as it stunk when he got close to it, so decided not to tag. I can almost see feeling bad for a wounded buck that is not really what I'm after and burning my buck tag on it, but not quite. I would shoot a wounded doe, and tag it, if I thought most of the meat would still be good. Otherwise I'd pass. OK.. sorry I missed that. |
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Post by throbak on Aug 11, 2010 15:15:30 GMT -5
hope this is not to off post but 2 years I jumped a buck in my warm season grasses he was tending a doe that he had literly bred to almost death she couldnt get up ,this was in early oct.BTW, I drug her to some shade and called the CO to see if it was ok to shoot her and not tag he told me if it was shot it had to be a bow or legal weapon AND TAGGED,shedied the next day with the buck still trying to get her up to breed some more
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Post by bigballer on Aug 12, 2010 6:40:53 GMT -5
Well if what I did was agains't the law then so be it. I put that buck down after watching it for 4 hours and it had went no more than 100 yards. Has nothing to do with my buck tag because I'm not out there hunting bucks I'm out there hunting deer. I don't know how that deer had lived as long as it had. In my mind there was no way that deer was going to live. And I was just doing what I thought was right. I took it as just like a deer that's been hit by a car. Your not allowed to shoot them either. But I have. I don't like to see an animal suffer. In my mind might not have been a lawful thing but it was the right thing. I'm sure I've done other things wrong in my life as well. Far from perfect.
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Post by Decatur on Aug 12, 2010 6:42:53 GMT -5
I agree with you Bigballer.
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Post by schall53 on Aug 12, 2010 8:48:10 GMT -5
SSS
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Post by oldhoyt on Aug 12, 2010 10:28:38 GMT -5
S-S-S if you must. S-S-Type? Not so much.
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Post by throbak on Aug 12, 2010 12:26:04 GMT -5
I concur also but I was thinking in no way shape or form am I going to take a chance loosing my LT licence
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Post by bigballer on Aug 12, 2010 13:16:48 GMT -5
So here's question for you then. You shoot a buck but don't find it. Then shoot another buck the next weekend. And you while tracking that one find the first one because of the smell. What do you do. Or you find it five or six day's later even if you hadn't shot one. Do you tag it. I know I've done that before. And I've found deer the next day that the yotes got to first. I didn't tag those... I mean I understand the law but sometimes I think common sense would take over and everyone would understand. I don't know. Just a thought!
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Post by oldhoyt on Aug 12, 2010 15:12:50 GMT -5
You have no responsibility to tag a deer that you did not find after shooting it.
You do have the responsibility to make a strong effort to find any deer you have shot. I know many that do not even come close to this standard, but that's another subject.
I've gone looking for deer the next day, and even the next day. Have recovered several the next AM after shooting in the PM, but never found any later than that. The great majority of these were determined not to be fatal hits, but still you track until you can't track any more, and then you just look in circles or a grid, likely cover, water, etc. You never know.
So the scenario is, say I shoot a buck and can't find it right away. I do find it the next day or so, but the coyotes had found it first. It has a great rack, but the meat is shot. To take the rack legally I'd need to tag it, but would get no meat. Will I burn my buck tag? Will I leave the rack there for the rodents? Will I come back at some point and just take the rack without tagging? Honestly, I'm not certain, but I'm leaning toward leaving the carcass until it is picked clean and returning in the spring to get the rack. I have found quite a few dead bucks months after the season and have taken some antlers for various uses. That's probably against some law somewhere too.
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