I was hunting this friday on the east side of the mountains. Well I really messed up a shot on a nice buck and don't know what happened with the shot. We watched him run across the coulee onto land we didn't have permission to hunt. I was about to do the right thing and drop him, but just about then, the land owners come into view and prevent me from making a safe kill shot as they are on the other side of the deer from me. They watch the deer, obviously wounded, for several minutes(I think waiting for me to finish it off on their land, so they can call fish and game(they are the people in the area that post their land and hunt everybody else's land without permission)). They later admitted that they wanted to bust me for shooting a deer on their land. Well, the deer was finally spooked and jumped a fence, never to be seen again. We searched everywhere within a 1 mile radius not even to find a blood trail. I accepted 100% responsibility and have already beaten myself up over it 1000 times. I don't want this to turn into a well you shouldn't have taken that shot thing, I have put myself though that already.
Luckily, other neighbors came by and said they got a dandy buck and found a fresh bullet in the lung, turned out to be the buck I messed up the shot on. Well I am not worrying about a buck dying a horrible death and not being used for food, I am FURIOUS, about the people that would not do the right thing, or let me do the right thing. At that point in time, I could care less if they finished it off an took it, I wanted it to be humanely finished.
Has anybody else, ever experienced a similar thing, or are these the only jerks in the world?
There are always a-holes like that. If they talked to you and told you that they wanted you to get in trouble,I would have told them what scum they are. I would have not been gentle.
I would have had to say something than if he reply I would have whipped his ass in a New York minute that sucks and yes my the guy that lives acrost the street he shot a nice ten point we let him come on our land and get it everything is apple pie shot a doe and he said no my dad was pissed and ever since we had problems and to top that he found the deer and hung it in his front great guy.
I can't stand those type of people! It's bad enough that they were just waiting to get you in trouble for doing the right thing, but even worse that they wouldn't do it themselves or let you do it, regardless of who takes the meat.
BTW, thebadger, please use some punctuation in your posts! It's very hard to understand what you're trying to say.
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I shot a deer and it jumped a fence into a Wildlife Refuge where no hunting is allowed. I watched it lay down but after 20 minutes it got up and walked away. I thought about putting a stalk on it and finishing it off with another arrow but then thought better. I did not want to go into a Wildlife Refuge with a weapon. No buck. We went in the next day and found no sign. There was nothing I could do.
Several years ago I shot a nice 14 point buck and it ran into the same Refuge. We went in, again without weapons and found this buck and he is now on my wall.
Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. If doing the right thing, you lose a deer, that's life. The less time you spend in front of a Judge explaining your case, the better. You did right.
In Virginia, if something like that happened, we are supposed to call a game warden and have him escort us to the deer. As long as we have the warden with us, we can do that. As for the tools in the OP, I think one of our wardens would probably lecture them about responsibility. They're cool like that here.
