How many deer do you injure and not recover every year?

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This pisses me off like nothing else. I overheard a conversation at the gym on Saturday. A young 20 something year old guy was bragging about how he had been out bow hunting last week and had shot and injured 3 deer. Three fukcing deer! Two he didn't even try to recover, one was a big buck that he spent an hour trying to track and gave up. It was all I could do to maintain my composure. I asked him if he was done hunting for the year and of course he said no. I told him in no uncertain terms that he was indeed done hunting for the year and recommended to him that he retake the hunter safety course. I also told him that I would be calling the TIPs line and reporting him. ####in poachers piss me off. I'm not perfect, I've lost 2 big game animals out of the 50+ I've shot over the years, but what some of these yahoos are doing is disgusting. 3 injured deer in 1 week. Makes me sick.

Ok, rant over.
 
The moron should have his hunting licence revoked!! If you hunt, you owe it to the environment and the animal to take it as cleanly as possible. I've personally never had to track an animal I just wounded. Lots of time at the range to keep my skills sharp, lots of time ensuring I have accurate ammo, and never taking an iffy shot, all these things add up. The thought of a wounded animal in pain dying in bush just infuriates me.
 
It' not a mentor problem. That's just a crappy person problem.
I have heard enough stories from, and about older guys, shooting a moose that then walked into a swamp and they just didn't want to go him. Or same thing with deer, "I tracked him 200M, wasn't worth the effort."
Crappy people come in all shapes, sizes and ages.
 
Sounds like that guy needs to spend less time at the gym and more time at the range/pit practicing marksmanship.
Probably doesn't know how to track well anyway, but needs to be taught to go after wounded animals.
 
I have lost one and taken about 60...... Tracked it for a whole day in the snow, but it circled back on its tracks several times and ended up losing it...... Still bothers me..... Found it two days later thanks to the crows...... Cut my tag and had to spend a long year between seasons thinking about it.....
 
It comes down to respect. Respect for the game animal and respect for our sport. This poacher had neither.
 
I hunted with a few guys (just acquaintances) who brought their 20ish son to hunt in muzzleoader season. They are meat hunters and brag about their hunts. The young fellow only comes to help them fill the freezer and never goes to a range. The old man just hands him a gun and lets him loose. Well he's never taken a deer but has wounded a bunch. Fellow who runs the deer camp would prefer that he not show up because he's the one who spends all night looking for the wounded deer most of which he never finds but that might lose him two paying customers.
I won't be sorry if they don't show up this year.
 
CanuckR said:
It' not a mentor problem. That's just a crappy person problem.
I have heard enough stories from, and about older guys, shooting a moose that then walked into a swamp and they just didn't want to go him. Or same thing with deer, "I tracked him 200M, wasn't worth the effort."
Crappy people come in all shapes, sizes and ages.
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I've been saying this for years, it's not one generation, every generation has their problem childs
 
The only reason I mentioned his youth was because of the way he was boasting about his "conquests" in public. I can't imagine an older poacher acting this way. My forehead veins were throbbing while I was educating him so hopefully he got the message.

I'm a bow hunter myself and I will never berate a fellow bow hunter that loses an occasional deer if the proper effort is put forth to locate it. It happens and its part of hunting unfortunately. All too often I hear about people with questionable archery skills taking 60,70,80 yard shots at deer and sticking them in the shoulder or hindquarters.

Somehow we need to teach and grade hunter safety students on respect for the animals they are harvesting.
 
I have no.problem shooting animals have a real problem when you don't hit them well and they suffer badly. It's cruelty imo. I remember when I first started hunting I wounded a jack rabbit broke his spine he was screaming g and screaming like a baby. It took a few minutes before i was able to put him down but it was some of the worse few minutes. I felt so bad almost gave up hunting after that.
 
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