If you have hunted long enough, then you have seen a wounded deer make its way across a property. Posted on 10/18/2017 7:43:56 AM PDT by w1n1
If you have hunted long enough, then you have seen a wounded deer make its way across a property.
For most of us, I have no doubt that ethical hunters would put a deer down that was wounded severely if the opportunity presented itself. Just last year, a mortally wounded deer ran across our property line and it was quickly put down.
It only took them 15 minutes later and the hunters who shot it came walking right through the field tracking it.
They heard our shot so they knew right where it went. After a few pleasantries, they took their deer and off they went.
So here’s the question though: How wounded does a deer need to be before you put it down and out of its misery? Read the rest of the would you shoot a wounded deer? story here.
I’ve shot several that weren’t wounded at all.
That’s the only thing that bothers me about hunting..
That you might wound an animal and it would scurry away and suffer a long and cruel death.
Kind of an odd question. A wounded deer means someone tried to kill it. Also, how is it possible to determine the extent of the wound of an animal just running by?
Let's just correct that.
So here’s the question though: How Tastey does a deer need to be before you put it down and out of its misery?
When deer are regularly hunted, they are an integral part of many field and forest environments.
If deer are not hunted, they quickly become an unmanageable population of disease-ridden, tick-ridden vermin.
That is what I was thinking.
#BambiLivesMatter
On my way to work this morning the car in front of me creamed a big buck pretty well with his crown vic. The buck was on the side of the road, writhing in pain. I almost stopped to finish him off with my .380 but decided against it. There were plenty of people stopping. I probably had the smallest gun there.
I mean, it IS rural Kentucky. :)
The only 8-point buck I ever got was wounded. Wasn’t much of a decision.
Well, first you do a triage to see how wounded the deer is...
The problem with civilization is it always leads to a population of navel gazers. Hunger and deprivation have a way of sharpening the mind.
That you might wound an animal and it would scurry away and suffer a long and cruel death.
Lots of hunters are looking for trophy bucks and don’t want to waste their tag on a wounded deer that isn’t one.
I believe that is the situation being posed.
The biggest problem regarding shooting wounded deer is sneaking a gun into the emergency room.
That makes sense. If I was one of those guys I’d not shoot it unless I could walk away and leave it for the coyotes.
If in season, yes.
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IMHO, a hunter has a moral and ethical responsibility to be intimately familiar with the capabilities and limitations of his weapon and his skill level. An ethical hunter will only take a shot that he has a high degree of confidence will result in a quick kill. Many (not all) crippling wounds could be eliminated by people applying the above principles.
I have found multiple dead deer with arrows in locations that appear to be non-life threatening.......they died from infections related to those wounds.
I confirmed this by cutting several open or seeing the heavy infection around the wound area.
A deer with any wound should be dispatched and the meat harvested (if the meat is good).
Suffering animals matter. At least to normal human beings. Even if they are not mortally wounded but suffering a lot it’s not like someone’s going to take them to the emergency room. I would imagine they’d need to be shot
I saw a guy in the ditch with a roadkill butchering it on the way to work a couple of years ago.
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