Consider this !

About 4 years ago we were camping out west of Rocky Mountain House. A moose was hit out on the highway by a pickup truck. The truck was buggered and the moose was even worse, but still fighting to get away. The driver called the RCMP to come out. The Officer arrive and decided the put the moose out with her 9mm. I suggested that I grab my shot gun and a slug and put it our right away. She insisted with the 9mm. Well 6 shots later the moose was still alive (I don't even think she was aiming), jumped up, ran 20 feet and layed down in the ditch again still breathing. I noticed she had a shot gun in the squad care and asked her to take care of the moose properly, she said she didn't like using the shot gun and continued with the 9mm. After a couple more rounds of 9mm the moose finally decide it had had enough and finally quit breathing. What a display. :roll:
 
haggisbasher said:
If driveing on the hwy., you see a deer hit by another vehicle and although it's still alive, it's in terrible pain and legs/shoulders smashed so it will die.

I know that i personally would pull out my rifle and put it out out its pain right away.

Could i (would i) be charged from a legal point of view ( let's say if a conservation officer happened to come by shortly afterwards ) for dischargeing a firearm at the side of the hwy ., although it's out in the boonies with no dwellings in sight :?:
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I was in that exact position when I hit a deer last year on the way to hunt camp, in the dark, before the season openned. I figured it would be hard to explain a bullet hole in the head to a CO, so even though there were two rifles in the Jeep, I stood on it's neck, and cut it's throat. Ten minutes later the deer was still alive, and i'd been kicked. So I stabbed it in the heart. It died a few minutes later.
Bigredd says I could have cut the spinal cord at the base of the brain. I didn't think of that. (Maybe next time).
When the sun came up I found I was soaked with blood from the knees down. It wasn't a pleasant experience, but one that had to be done. If it happened again, it would depend on the circumstances if I'd shoot it or not.
That time, I was on a lonely stretch of highway with no whitnesses, and an hour and a half from camp, where I'd have to hang the deer.
 
Yeah...always approach the animal from the spine side and near the head, a kick can maim or kill you... even from a small deer :idea:
You put the knife in under the ear above where the jaw hinges and angle it towards the base of the brain.
Unsure of the right spot??? Put your index finger behind your earlobe and push into the soft spot... wiggle your jaw up and down ... can you feel that opening between the skull and jawbone hinge???? thats the spot... push a knife in there toward the base of the spine and it shuts them off like a switch :wink:
 
Gatehouse said:
I had to deal with this exact thing a few years ago.

I saw a doe that had been struck (on a paved highway) and she was still moving.

I stopped, saw that her leg was almost ripped off.

I pulled out my rifle and shot it.

I broke a few rules:
Shootingin a highway

Shooting a doe

Shooting a deer out of season.

I dragged it to the side of the road. I don't know how many cars may have passed but at least one ot two, probbaly.

In the end, I called the CO's form a pay phone and told them what had transpired without leaving my name. Word got back to me that they were fine with it.

It's the right thing to do, regardless of the law.
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Now you would proberly be charged!! :roll: :roll:
 
A little story along these lines, from here in Vancouver Island...

A few years ago a nice young lady I worked with at the Local SPCA was driving to work and came accross a deer that was -just- hit by a car.

The deer had a broken leg, he people from the car where crowding around it very upset, and wondering what to do.

Then along came this other guy who opend the 'trunk of his car' and said "I'm taking it home and hitting it in the head with a shovel" :shock:

Even at 100lbs soaking wet she told this poacher what he could do with his Shovel idea!

As a Horse dentice by trade, and very comfortable handling large animals, and with the help of the people from the first car she managed to get the deer wrapped up and secure into the back of her truck, and off the a local vet nearby that treated our wildlife cases in a matter of min'.

Turns out the deer had to be put down in the end due to the amount of internal damage that wasn't visable on the outside, but at least it went free of pain.

Later that day a local CO said that he would have authorized/had no problem with someone with a rifle putting the deer down right then and there, but commended her on her efforts to try to save it, and her keeping it out of the hands of the poacher.

I guess best to know the local laws, and esp' the disposition of your local CO...ie, Cover your ass.
 
BIGREDD said:
Yeah...always approach the animal from the spine side and near the head
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I did! I found out that deer can extend their hind legs a bit over their shoulders, even when you are standing on their neck. Oh well, all I got was a black and blue middle finger. Didn't even lose the nail.
 
It's great to see, for the most part that the greater portion of people responding to my question are of the same mind as I am.

As hunters, we all are in agreement that we try our best to ensure that any animal that we shoot is killed instantly, therefore the animal does not run and suffer!

So, based on that idealistic approach, legal or otherwise, when /if we come across an animal suffering from the circumstances described, most of us would do the "Right Thing" as Hunters :!:

That, IMHO, is the right thing to do :!:
 
Had an experience where a relative found a fawn hit and dazed. It was still on the highway (major one) and so she pulled over pulled it to the side and took it unconscious to our nearby farm. It woke up an hour later with bruised face but looked ok. So she took it back realtivly close to where she found it and let it go. I talked to a a local CO by phone a little while later and he said emphatically you should have left it on the road. You should never even move them. :( I just don't get it.
 
he said emphatically you should have left it on the road. You should never even move them. I just don't get it.
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What don't you get :?: ... the fact that deer carry ticks that can give you lyme disease... or the fact that it might have regained consiousness in the vehicle and hurt the dumb human or itself... or maybe the fact that the minute she handled the fawn she put her scent on it she doomed it to rejection from its mother and likely starvation and death. :?
The C.O. was right your relative was stupid... :roll:
 
I'm not sure about the scent and rejection thing.

I have seen plenty of human handled Fawns and other animals returned and taken back with their mothers.
 
In Ontario you can take the meat, you just need to make sure you tell someone it was hit on the road and wait for them. We were told that if it was during legal shooting times they would not look at the bullet hole as long as it was injured on the road, the problem occurs after dark, then the gun laws creep in. My cousin hit one with his van going out to the phone, it was not seriously injured but the OPP told him that if it was laying there the only way they could have finished it without being charged would be to use a knife. I would think twice about shooting it on the side of the road, I live in a very bad area for firearms and hunting.
 
No laws saying you can't discharge a firearm at night, you can't hunt at night, but your not hunting.

this is unless you have some local laws or special provincial laws where you live.

(you poor bastards that live in Ontario I feal for you)
 
Hit a deer going Turkey hunting a few years back. it was 4:00am all was dark. The deer was trying to get up and was completely mangled doing the chicken on the side of the road. I didn't even bat an eye, I pulled my shotgun out of the case, unlocked it walked up to the deer and shot it point blank in the head with a #4 mag turkey load. Locked my gun back up drove away feeling

1. good because I did the right thing,

2. scared because I knew that if I got caught I would be in a pile of ####,

3 pissed off because I smashed the headlight front quarter panel and drivers door of my car and I only had basic insurance.

I did go Turkey hunting, made it in time but didn't get a turkey.
Would I do it again

YES YES and YES.

Camper
 
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