Legal Scenario for ya.

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You shoot a deer bow/rifle just at the end of legal light. It is dizzling rain a bit, and you loose blood, and decide to take up where you left off early next morning.

Not 50yds from where you left off the night before you find your deer(you know its the same deer). The problem is, the coyotes/wolves have it torn it up.

What do you do?



Legally: You cut your tag, because you are done! WHAT DO YOU DO?
 
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Call the MNR and report poachers in your area? :p

Do we really need to have a poll on not breaking the law here?
 
It gets even more complicated if the day of retrieval is outside of the hunting season. If that's the case, call Natural Resouces and tell them what happened.
 
You can't tag it as you can't really prove it is the same dear you were shooting at. Who's to say that while looking for your dear, you didn't just happen apon one that was killed by coyotes?

If you shoot a dear and it gets away and then another hunter (or predator) kills it, who gets to claim the dear/kill?

As far as I'm concerned, you didn't kill that dear, the coyotes did & therefore, it's theirs.

Back off & get your own dear!!!
 
Like some one else mentioned unless you can prove one way or the other the deer is the one you shot in the deer in the governement's eyes isn't yours. They have to prove it is to charge you. It basicly comes down to your call one way or the other.
 
New member & my My first post!:)
Tag the deer it is the right thing to do!:)
Here is Another scenario.
You are duck hunting you have shot & retrieved four ducks! You have winged another four & lost them! Do you carry on shooting until you have your bag of eight, winging & loosing another ten, or call it a day?

I think we all know what the ethical thing to do is!;)
Spy
 
If it is my Deer..then yes I tag it...you could call the CO's and hope they feel sorry for you but I believe if you identify it as the deer that you shot you are SOL.....
 
Spy said:
New member & my My first post!:)
Tag the deer it is the right thing to do!:)
Here is Another scenario.
You are duck hunting you have shot & retrieved four ducks! You have winged another four & lost them! Do you carry on shooting until you have your bag of eight, winging & loosing another ten, or call it a day?

I think we all know what the ethical thing to do is!;)
Spy
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No offense but your first post is just silly.

I don't know anybody who stops hunting until they've reached their limit IN HAND!

When you're fishing, and you're allowed five, do you stop after five bites, or do stop after you actually catch five fish?

Sheeesh!

PS - I've never heard of anyone actually tagging a found carcass and calling it a season either!
 
Spy said:
New member & my My first post!:)
Tag the deer it is the right thing to do!:)
Here is Another scenario.
You are duck hunting you have shot & retrieved four ducks! You have winged another four & lost them! Do you carry on shooting until you have your bag of eight, winging & loosing another ten, or call it a day?

I think we all know what the ethical thing to do is!;)
Spy
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Congratulations on your first post.
It is certainly nice to see someone on here think of ethics, instead of just, "is it legal?" And might I get caught?
 
Northman999 said:
No offense but your first post is just silly.

I don't know anybody who stops hunting until they've reached their limit IN HAND!

When you're fishing, and you're allowed five, do you stop after five bites, or do stop after you actually catch five fish?

Sheeesh!

PS - I've never heard of anyone actually tagging a found carcass and calling it a season either!
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Using that fishing analogy is comparing apples to oranges with the situation he brought up. Its much different having a fish bite then winging a bird (which is probably going to die or is dead and you can't find it). Ethically I agree with spy, I shoot 8 ducks regardless if I can find them all or not my count is 8 in my mind.
 
This happened to me last year. 10 mins of light left shot a really nice whitetail (just under boone) and hit him a little far back (liver). Pushed him through two bluffs and he he never offered another shot. When legal time ended called it a day and went home to return in the morning. In 12 hours the coyotes had found and pretty much cleaned him up. I could have wrote him off and kept hunting but already had my muley so meat wasn't an issue and was hunting this deer for a week. I cut my tags and tagged the carcass and horns and left with horns and a bunch of pics just incase the local C.O. gave me grief over any of this.
On a side note I have no clue how much meat a coyote can pack away in a night or how many it would have taken but they must have ate 75lbs of meat off this deer. I was amazed at how fast they could clean up a full grown whitetail buck.
 
Spy said:
New member & my My first post!:)
Tag the deer it is the right thing to do!:)
Here is Another scenario.
You are duck hunting you have shot & retrieved four ducks! You have winged another four & lost them! Do you carry on shooting until you have your bag of eight, winging & loosing another ten, or call it a day?

I think we all know what the ethical thing to do is!;)
Spy
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Yup, practice more until you don't wing 4 in a day.
 
If tagging the yote eaten deer is the right thing to do if you find it next day than why is it ok/legal for you to go home because it is dark and walk away from finding your kill? This makes no sense.
What if you find the arrowed deer a week later dead and not eaten by yotes do you still tag it and take it home?
But now you can't tag it because the deer you shot and tracked this morning ran by the one you shot and lost last week. Now you are a poacher. Phone the CO and he charges you with poaching and wasting meat because you were a bad shot on the first deer.
Use the SSS or give up hunting.
 
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If you shot a moose hamstrung by wolves and you put it out of its misery would you punch your tag? It is part of nature's way. Are you interferring with the process? When I stumbled onto two wounded moose, we shot them and delivered them to the CO. Nothing said. Nothing asked for. Nothing offered for our efforts either . . . mind you two of us were peace officers but he could have at least bought us a coffee . . . standard bribe!
 
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