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Post by schoolmaster on Nov 12, 2012 11:41:14 GMT -5
So do you go ahead and try and shoot another buck if you have wounded one and lost it or do you count it as your one buck for the year and just hunt for does?
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Post by ridgerunner on Nov 12, 2012 11:45:50 GMT -5
I would be done for the yr... But the laws allows you to keep hunting..if I wound a buck that's my buck that yr.. I've only lost one buck in 30 yrs hunting, so it's a non- issue for me... I will not take anything but a for sure shot in my mind.. Sometimes to a fault
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Nov 12, 2012 11:46:04 GMT -5
If I've exhausted all my options for looking for the deer and am unable to find it. It's time to get back in the tree and try for another.
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Post by Hoosier Hunter on Nov 12, 2012 11:57:20 GMT -5
If I've exhausted all my options for looking for the deer and am unable to find it. It's time to get back in the tree and try for another. Dave. You're still 100% legal.
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Post by Woody Williams on Nov 12, 2012 12:01:09 GMT -5
If I've exhausted all my options for looking for the deer and am unable to find it. It's time to get back in the tree and try for another. Ditto.......
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Post by HuntMeister on Nov 12, 2012 12:09:08 GMT -5
If I've exhausted all my options for looking for the deer and am unable to find it. It's time to get back in the tree and try for another. Ditto....... ^^THIS^^
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Post by mkfrench on Nov 12, 2012 13:01:46 GMT -5
If I've exhausted all my options for looking for the deer and am unable to find it. It's time to get back in the tree and try for another. I agree 100% And I have to call "BS" to anyone who says they'd "be done" for the year.
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Post by boonechaser on Nov 12, 2012 13:06:42 GMT -5
LOL. Definitely be back out to redeem myself. Don't see ETHIC'S being a issue.
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Post by freedomhunter on Nov 12, 2012 15:58:26 GMT -5
never would have killed my biggest buck if I hadn't started hunting again after 9 days of searching for an even bigger archery 160 class 9 point that probably died on his feet chasing does and got scooped up by someone a mile from where he was shot
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Post by M4Madness on Nov 12, 2012 17:32:48 GMT -5
I've wounded bucks that I SWORE had to be dead, only to find out later that they were still very much alive.
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Post by parkerbow on Nov 12, 2012 19:16:05 GMT -5
It's part of hunting. We do not intentionally wound deer, it just happens sometime and yes they are tough and alot of them do survive after being hit.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2012 20:10:03 GMT -5
Nobody intentionally wound deer but a lot of hunters make really stupid decisions that result in wounds and lost deer. That's the part that is unethical
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Post by ridgerunner on Nov 12, 2012 20:11:58 GMT -5
Ain't too many of you boys that would be hunting any of my property... You wound one you're done for the yr... No BS!
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Post by ridgerunner on Nov 12, 2012 20:12:48 GMT -5
Just like Alaska...ask uncle Ted
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Post by firstwd on Nov 12, 2012 21:47:02 GMT -5
Ethics are individual, legal is for everyone. Read Federal waterfowl regulations, a wounded bird is a bagged bird. State deer regs says an unrecovered deer doesn't count.
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Post by ridgerunner on Nov 13, 2012 5:52:34 GMT -5
I know what the regs say.. But if you can't put a kill shot on a deer and wound it you should be done..a lot of these guys wounding deer don't practice shooting like they should before season... That's with gun or bow if I wound a buck my own rule is I'm done....you can do whatever you like... He'll I know guys that wound 4 or 5 deer every year... Same guys
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Post by turkeyscout on Nov 13, 2012 6:53:18 GMT -5
If I've exhausted all my options for looking for the deer and am unable to find it. It's time to get back in the tree and try for another. .......................this is where i stand!
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Post by mkfrench on Nov 13, 2012 12:04:08 GMT -5
I know what the regs say.. But if you can't put a kill shot on a deer and wound it you should be done..a lot of these guys wounding deer don't practice shooting like they should before season... That's with gun or bow if I wound a buck my own rule is I'm done....you can do whatever you like... He'll I know guys that wound 4 or 5 deer every year... Same guys Just so I'm clear on your "stance". You have a 20 broadside shot at a calm deer, you settle in to you anchor, everything is "perfect", squeeze, and the deer jumps the string, loading up his back legs while turning and you in hit in front of the shoulder. You quit hunting bucks for the year, right?
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Post by joeyb on Nov 13, 2012 12:09:08 GMT -5
If I've exhausted all my options for looking for the deer and am unable to find it. It's time to get back in the tree and try for another. -Agree. I wounded a really nice buck last year. I was sick about it. I searched high and low, had a dog come in, and considered stopping deer hunting for the year. Wounding an animal is the worst thing about hunting. Luckily, I sucked it up and I was given a second chance, and that 2nd chance was my breakfast this morning. But we forget that hunting wasn't started for bone and management of bucks. It's about harvesting meat for the table. If I need the meat, I'm going to fill every tag that I'm legally allowed to fill. Plus just because someone wounds a deer doesn't mean they're automatically not practicing. I shoot year round... leagues, family and friend tournaments, and just for fun. I make sure I'm dead on by Oct. 1st. Sometimes a limb, a weed, a gust of wind, or a nervous twitch can send an arrow an inch in the wrong direction. Sometimes you wont even know why your seemingly perfect flying arrow didn't do the job. It happens. It's just fine with me if someone quits after wounding and not finding their deer. Hey, send those bucks you're passing up my way. If you don't, then someone else usually will.
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Post by bowhunterjohn on Nov 13, 2012 14:16:16 GMT -5
since video taping in 2007 my eyes are open to the things that can happen after the arrow is released. Deer move, jump , duck and turn and it can and does happen to everyone that hunts sooner or later.
I've seen a buck shot through both lungs, maybe a little low, but through both lungs, healed over and then shot dead during gun season
Somewhere there was an archery hunter thinking he made the perfect shot and never recovered the deer and it never died.
If a hunter makes every single effort to shot their weapon proficient, practices, takes good shots and makes every single effort above and then some to retrieve the animal and just does not find it, I have no problem with them continuing to hunt that season for another buck
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