Another Ethical Question

[trky chsr]

With the second controlled hunt coming up next week I thought this a timely scenario. You're on public land in your stand and you hear shooting off in the distance. An hour later you hear a couple of shots much closer. A half hour after that a deer comes along (make or model doesn't matter) with a broken leg. Boom! You kill it. A short while later another hunter comes along tracking the deer and claims he shot it (first). Who tags the deer? TC

[trimmer21]

The shooter that KILLS the deer whether someone else is trailing it,or not. The FWCA is quite clear. Deer must be tagged immediately and at the site of the kill. Too bad for the other hunter,but,dems da breaks.

[rick_iles]

The shooter that KILLS the deer whether someone else is trailing it,or not. The FWCA is quite clear. Deer must be tagged immediately and at the site of the kill. Too bad for the other hunter,but,dems da breaks.

Sounds about right !

[Greenhorn]

The guy that kills the deer. The other hunters needs to practise shooting. Had he target practise, he would have killed the deer.

[Fox]

We had one pass by my dad and I, no doe tags at the time, it was a yearling with a limp, it sucked that we could not take it.

You finished it off, you tag it.

[GuyJR]

In our organized camp we have a first blood rule. This comes more in to play if it has nice head gear as we share the meat evenly. In your situation, it's your deer.

[GuyJR]

But I might add, it if comes to you with a definite kill wound and you just finish it off I would say it's not your deer. Just my 2c.

[johny]

It is a condemnation of the shooting skills of some Ontario hunters that leads you to ask such a question.

You shoot/it dies/it’s yours… The shooter that KILLS the deer whether someone else is trailing it, or not.


Still what about GuyJR who says: “it if comes to you with a definite kill wound and you just finish it off I would say it's not your deer”.
Lamentations for anyone who has to hunt so close to another hunter that a “dead deer running”--- let’s say75 yards max--- could end up in your sights.


But that does specify a distance.
Well shot ---75 yards would be long run.
If you shoot/finish a staggering deer that was shot by another hunter just 75 yards away, well you are absurdly close to the other hunter

200+ yards from the initial shooter?—well that’s a bad shot. If it ends up on someone else’s property and they “finish/shoot” the deer—I’d say it’s theirs.

The whole question makes me glad I live up north where this is almost never an issue.

[JBen]

The Buck my friend shot 2 weeks ago, on crown land went about 100-150yards Easy. Have no doubt if I checked my gps log, that (100 yards) would be the minimum.

As we were gathering our gear to track it, ( We met at the trucks as it was getting close to last legal) we heard a shot from nearby. He naturally was worried that someone else had just finished it. Given its meat is now in my freezer (we found it about 10-15 minutes after that shot) I suppose the "worries" he's a bad shot are past.

Hunt with a guy that shot a doe in the neck (archery), it went a good 200 yards before it sprayed blood everywhere and dropped like a rock on the spot "there", a good 200 yards away.

Funny thing about Adrenaline.
It can give humans "super" strength, some people have been known to lift cars to save another life. If you talk to EMS they will have all kinds of stories about the "walking wounded and walking dead". People who get out of mangled cars and walk, sometimes on crushed bones and worse.

Heck if some humans have been know to be fatally shot, yet find their ways to hospitals, or run a few hundred yards....make it all the home before piling up in their drive ways..........Many hunters, don't understand why sometimes their meat taste like hell. Don't understand that that farther it runs, the more Adrenaline was coursing through its veins, and lactic acid build up...


Strange things happen, and Adrenaline can cause all kinds of "not possible" things to happen.
*****

If someone finishes an animal, be it a WT, Bear or other. Whoever finishes it tags it. Would in theory save arguments. However I've always wondered how two guys standing in the woods, looking at a dead buck with two holes in it know which hole, belongs to which person. Maybe it was the second shooter that gut shot it, but because it was close to death anyways, that was the proverbial "straw".


Thankfully, the law resolves the argument, at least with respect to who tags it.

[skeeter1]

I had this happen to me two years ago, other hunter on neighboring property shot it with buck shot and it ran past me (still quite strong, but hit). I finished it off and let the other man have the deer (but I do agree I could have kept it as I finished it, but IMO it would have died eventually had I not shot it). The other hunter has happily surprised I let him have it.