I'd like feedback from deer hunters.

[hawgchaser]

I'm a non deer hunter. I tried it a couple times and it didn't take with me. My 14 year old grandson hunts with his dad & loves it. His mom called last night and told the story of him shooting a huge 14 point buck (on private land). He was getting ready to field dress his trophy when a guy comes up and claims it was his deer. According to his mom (guaranteed biased reporting), the deer was just grazed and was not obviously impaired when my grandson shot it. I have my share of trophies (9) in what my wife refers to as "the dead animal room", but I don't think I could take a deer from an excited young hunter...regardless of the trophy qualities. Knowing him, he was probably so excited & talking so fast it would have sounded like a foreign language. I'd like to hear from some of you deer hunters, please.

[highlife4me]

I would give the kid the deer.

[6arrows]

Well if the guy was following a good blood trail it usually would be his deer. But if it was just a nick of a wound it would be grandsons buck. and even i did make a good hit on it and i walked up to a excited kid I dont think i would say any thing but good luck. I will tell you a story about 3 years ago rifle hunting i put 3 good holes in a nice 9 pointer i was on a good blood trail next thing i hear is a whole clip being emptyied well i got up to the old guy he was so excited and asked if i was on a blood trail i said yes i was he was a tough old buck i saw all the holes in this thig i said you tag the deer congrats the next year he brang me my rack after all he was running dead and my deer. now the old man is gone i still walk by that spot and think of that man

[6arrows]

+1000000000

[LOTWSvirgin]

Whats was this guy doing on the private land anyways

[walleyeking19]

Whats was this guy doing on the private land anyways

You can follow a wounded animal across property lines as long as you shot it on your land. If I'm not mistaken

[jay83196]

Pretty sure need land owners permission..

[eyeguy 54]

you can track a wounded deer if not posted. if not posted you must leave if landowner says leave. if posted you need permission. page 6 and 7 in regulation book.

[PropsterII]

So what happened, did the guy bully the young man out of the deer or did they get others involved and settle it reasonably?

[hawgchaser]

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So what happened, did the guy bully the young man out of the deer or did they get others involved and settle it reasonably?

I can't say if my grandson was bullied or not, but he did let the other guy take the deer. I'm anxious to see the picture(s) of the deer and either hear from my grandson or see the original shooter's wounding shot in the deer. Thanks for responding, guys. I didn't think I was alone in thinking most hunters would defer to the young hunter, but I've taken enough meat over the years, so that is way down on my list of reasons to hunt/fish.

[LOTWSvirgin]

You can follow a wounded animal across property lines as long as you shot it on your land. If I'm not mistaken

No you cant blood trail or not Even if its not posted it still is not worth going into look because all the land owner has to say is that it was posted his word against yours and usually goes in the land owners favor I was tolds this by a CO

[eyeguy 54]

by law you can track a wounded animal on unposted land and must leave if told to leave. the land needs to be posted properly also, can't just say it was posted. I went thru this a few years ago when a gal called me in. CO talked to me as I was gutting the deer after it was drug off her unposted land and said I was perfectly legal as i knew I was. I wrote her a nice letter afterwards and said I would be happy to help her post her land if she wanted help. It's still not posted.

[PropsterII]

Hawg chaser, I commend your grandson for doing what appears to be the right and honorable thing. It's unfortunate that the youngsters have to teach us older guys now and then. On the other hand if it was mortally wounded by the other hunter then he was within his rights I guess. Be interesting to hear if you ever find out the details.

[Boar]

Ok,so properly posted is how much distance between signs? I have nodoubt that a deer can lead you right between them an never see a sign. crossing rivers ect.. how many signs dose one need to put up in order for a traker to come across one while following a blood trail. not being sarcastic cause i had it happe opening day, I thought whos walikng in on my hunt i went over to investigate an here the neighbors had follewd a blood trail onto our land, I asked them if they knew they were on our property an they said yes we triald a deer here, I said please finish quietly an resume ur hunt on ur side an they polietly obliged. I also told them they walked in on my hunt with my daughter an were very opplogetic. Not anythign to get ruffled about, but I know that i would litterlay have to have a sign every 5 ft to seen in the thick stuf they came thru. We are currently working on boundaries an this spring they agrred to join us an really set up a line with clear flags an signs. Its a good thing but can be frustrating even when they ment no harm or wrong doing an decide to retrieve a deer during a tiem when deer seem to doing their morning stretch an browse.

[Boar]

Sorry didnt mean to highjack the thread this direction. I woulda hav give n the kid the deer.

[Jeff13]

I've never shot a monster buck and would not be able to take it away from a 14 year old hunter if I had just grazed it. I hope he didn't bully him.

[96trigger]

Yep, give the kid the deer, no question. Shot a buck this weekend and watched it cross the fence, called the neighbors to see if I could go in and get it, they said wait until they went in for lunch around 11:00. I didn't even need to wait, at 11:00 they brought the buck down for me, they went and found it. I don't know if they didn't want me back there, or if they were just being neighborly, either way I totally understood, and he must have been pretty easy to find because they only new my general location.

[nonteepical]

the guy should of asked your grandson to get his dad or an adult so he could make his case, theres an intimidation factor for a 14 year old to give in even if he feels he has the right to the deer. i shot a deer in the heart one time and that guy ran over a hundred yards, so i wouldn't necessarily just give the kid the deer because he's a kid, it would be a better learning expierence for him if the two parties came to a decision of who had the killing shot.

[deerminator]

I understand the need to encourage youngsters to hunt but I don't see the merit in just saying they get the deer no matter what because they're a youngster (regardless of what had happened here). I think we need to teach them about life too - and that if they shoot a deer that someone else had made the killing shot on a minute or two before, that the right thing to do is to let that person have the deer. We all know a deer can go hundreds of yards if not more after a lethal shot. It's not about being a meathog or trying to take a deer away from a youngster. Bottom line is if my neighbor put a killing shot on a deer, it ran across onto our property and I shot it, I'd help him drag it back question. And I would expect my son to do the same if it was the first deer he ever shot. I would also expect my neighbor to do the same if it was the reverse situation.

Again, I'm not commenting per this specific situation. Sounds like the grandson did an honorable thing regardless of who was right or wrong. I was just stating my general thoughts on the matter regarding if someone made a lethal shot and then a youngster shot it again. Maybe this makes me a jerk but I think it's the fair thing and what I'd want my son to understand versus him feeling he was entitled to something.

[shortfatguy]

Not enough info to make a call. How far had the deer gone after the first shot? Where was it hit? Both make a difference. Hope your grandson doesnt get discouraged and gets back out there and shoots a big one!

[Wanderer]

I'm with the last two posters on this one.

[Archerysniper]

I would have given the deer to the kid however it must have been bleeding good enough for the guy to track it to his stand.

[hockeybc69]

How do we know this deer wasnt on its death run, and your grandson is the one that grazed it, thinking he killed it??

I think we need to know a lot more about the situation than what we have presented so far....

I cant make a call on it based on the info provided.

[Big Dave2]

How do we know this deer wasnt on its death run, and your grandson is the one that grazed it, thinking he killed it??

I think we need to know a lot more about the situation than what we have presented so far....

I cant make a call on it based on the info provided.

For me personally it would make no difference which one of us made the killing shot. I would say "nice deer" to the youngster and go hunt some more for another one. There are always more deer. There's no way that I could feel good about it knowing I took it away from a 14 yr old any way.

I might feel different if the deer hadn't been on someone else's land and shot a second time but based on the info I have in the story, I give it to the kid.

Maybe its just me but i am always a lot happier to watch a kid bag game than I am to bag it myself.

[hockeybc69]

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i am always a lot happier to watch a kid bag game than I am to bag it myself.

Agree completely. But we dont even know if the kid bagged the game or not.

Tell ya what. If I was on a buck of a life all fall, made a killing shot finally and find some kid with it, I have no problem dealing with his Dad to get to the bottom of it if I truly made a vital shot on it. Shouldnt be hard at all to prove who killed it or not. There was either a blood trail, or there wasnt....

If it was grazed by the initial shooter(as claimed by initial poster), there would be no blood trail..... Case closed. Kid gets the deer.

Lets just give a trophy to every kid that played football this fall.... I always love that one...