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Post by span870 on Dec 8, 2011 9:41:08 GMT -5
I know a couple of guys on here know a heck of alot more about biology than I do so wanted to pose this question to them or anyone else that might know. Was muzzy hunting on saturday morning and found a year and a half old ten pointer on my farm i hunt. He was shot through the shoulder mid way up. Perfect lung shot. The decomposition didn't seem that bad to me. Not a whole lot of smell and the yotes still hadn't hit it at all. What i noticed was that he still had swollen up ticks on him. My question is how long a tick will stay on a deer after its dead? By my math if he was shot the last day of shotgun that would have made him 6 days dead. Would think the yotes would have gotten him by then or he would be more decomposed. The shot was good enough and the hole big enough I really don't think it would have been to hard to blood trail and the shoulder was broken. Hate to see any deer poached but that one had potential. 2nd question. Am i right that it would have been illegal to cut the rack off it without dnr approval?
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Post by countrystyle56 on Dec 8, 2011 11:15:36 GMT -5
I am pretty sure you have to call a CO and have the animal checked out before you can remove the antlers legally. I know in IL they give you a set of numbers to keep with the rack.
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Post by Indyhunter on Dec 8, 2011 20:46:28 GMT -5
I dont know about the tick question, all i know is they all deserve to die. As far as the rack, yeah i believe you need dnr approval. I thought the law stated you needed some type of tag or permit etc to be in possession whether it be a deer tag or otherwise written by dnr/county officer. I do know my son put down a wounded buck a few years ago that was alive but couldn't move any longer. After checking the deer we noticed he was full of infection and losing hair in several spots around his body (falling out, not from coyotes etc). I got in touch with a CO that was helping to cover the county, and he told us that we could cut the rack and keep it but the rest of the deer must remain and he didn't have to use his tag for it. I'm not sure if that meant he was too busy to come give us one, or that it wasn't needed. I'm sure to be safe it is best that some type of documentation should accompany the deer. I just went on what he told me.
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