my youngest son was on his way to work last Friday and spotted a deer in the ditch partially filled with water, it had been hit by a vehicle or? Was injured anyway! It was in the water and couldn't get up. It kept laying back down but the head was going under the water. What a horrible site! He Ph'd home to have us contact Conservation to deal with it. Yeah right, they took the info down and exact location and said they would send out someone lickety split! Bull F'en Chite, the deer was still there at the end of the day on his way home, drowned! I think they just say that it will be dealt with right-o-way just to put the callers mind to rest! This is the second time something similar has happened! I call azz-hole on this Department on this subject! Gonna hafta start carrying a humane purposes vehicle gun in all vehicles!
Had to mercy kill a deer on the way home. Someone missed their shot.
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I'm First Nations, so I have the ability to hunt whenever I "need" to. But even I have ethics when it comes to hunting. I never hunt pre-season, never at night, and I never go after young or female animals. Even if I see a beautiful buck, if its still too young, I don't shoot it. Plain and simple. I don't trophy hunt but I make sure its worth the kill. Half the people I know though, are exactly like whoever did this. Half of them spotlight hunt or just shoot anything as long as they come back with something. I went out 7 times last season and never came home with anything, I saw an outrageous amount of animals but nothing I deemed worthy of taking. Its sick how many poachers are out there.
good on you, hats off to you my friend! That's the way I like to see it! Good luck with the right meat in the freezer!
The issue isn't the poor shot... that could happen to anybody and it is very unfortunate when it does... but the fact that it is out of season makes the shooter a poacher (if it was private non-treaty land a First Nations hunter would be poaching also)... if it was a legal shoot for some other reason, ie. Nuisance deer permit or First Nations on crown treaty land, then it is just an unfortunate situation... I don't know of anyone who "intentionally" wounds animals... a wounded animal saddens any hunter that I know... but many should be more selective of the shots they take.
