Doe season disaster

[venisonassassin]

Went out with a couple friends last Saturday in a public marsh working through some bedding areas trying to roust up a couple does since neither one of them had shot a deer yet. We had pushed through the bedding areas that I know of and weren't having any luck, lots of beds but no deer. After all that we decided to just spread out and work our way through some cattails and tall grass back to the truck. So we regroup, spread out and start walking this tall grass, all of a sudden my buddy calls me over to " check this out". I go over there and he found a blood trail. At first I thought no big deal, but then just for kicks I start following said blood trail in one direction. Ten yards later I said " there it is! " , there was a dead deer. Thinking maybe it was a doe someone had shot and never recovered. I walk up to this thing and here it's a big buck! Couldn't believe it, upon further inspection it had just been shot very recently because it was warm and the body was limp and it was darn cold out that day.

We're standing around this thing wondering what we should do with it. If we tamper with it then we look like poachers. If we let it there and leave then whoever shot it will be back to take it illegally. We decided we would rather see the dnr seize it than let the poachers have it so we called the dnr and they sent a warden out. We showed him where it was and he figured whoever shot it would be back for the rack so he was gonna do a stake out. I hope they nailed those suckers.

It ticks me off, we work our tails off to try and kill big bucks like this legally and guys go and shoot them out of season. Damn shame. BTW it was like a 17 or 18" wide 10 pointer, about 130" 4 1/2 year old buck by my best estimate.

[Dewey]

Probably was going to let it lay till Monday and tag with his bow tag!!

I could see making a mistake if it's a very small buck like a 3" spike......but a 130" 10 pt That's poaching if I ever saw it. Hope they catch the idiot!!

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[rudy78]

maybe they shot it with a new kind of arrow, lol. I hate poachers such hope they nail them!!

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[venisonassassin]

maybe they shot it with a new kind of arrow, lol. I hate poachers such hope they nail them!!

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After we showed the warden he rolled the deer over and there was 3" by 3" hole in the lungs, the shot was perfect. That was the only hole we found and the warden thought it looked odd. Also, I back tracked the blood trail before the warden got there and found a good sized chunk of lung. And yes, I doubt it was mistaken for a doe.

[BigHunt]

maybe they shot it with a new kind of arrow, lol. I hate poachers such hope they nail them!!

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ha ya the heat seeking buck arrow

[adrenalin]

Exact reason why the doe only season shouldn't exist. I'm sure several bucks lay and rot out their.

[Sam Ubl]

Wow... Did you take a pic with your phone cam or anything? What about the warden, did he call you and tell you what happened? I would have thought that perhaps he would have let you have the deer after that initial night of staking out. Damn, see, that's why it would be awesome to be a warden... I'd think it would be pretty sweet to stakeout something like that. Dude would never see it coming.. He'd walk up to the buck in the dark and all of a sudden, "DON'T MOVE!". Hearing things like this is sickening, especially when the rest of us who mind the laws pass big ones up to be legal, all the while some dumb@ss shoots the big one we let go to abide the law. Some people could care less when it's on public land - they think, well, it's not my land and I could get away with this so why not..

[venisonassassin]

Wow... Did you take a pic with your phone cam or anything? What about the warden, did he call you and tell you what happened? I would have thought that perhaps he would have let you have the deer after that initial night of staking out. Damn, see, that's why it would be awesome to be a warden... I'd think it would be pretty sweet to stakeout something like that. Dude would never see it coming.. He'd walk up to the buck in the dark and all of a sudden, "DON'T MOVE!". Hearing things like this is sickening, especially when the rest of us who mind the laws pass big ones up to be legal, all the while some dumb@ss shoots the big one we let go to abide the law. Some people could care less when it's on public land - they think, well, it's not my land and I could get away with this so why not..

My buddy's got pics on their phones. I don't have a camera on my phone but can receive pics but they are not great. It was a nice buck man, and it had a beautiful cape, no rips or scars. We hinted at wanting it but never asked directly. I don't think it would have been legal any way you look at it. My one friend just wanted the meat. I imagine the warden reports should be public record, does anyone know? I suppose I could call the guy, I am curious.

Also, there were a couple suspect individuals in the parking lot when we walked back there. Two guys with guns in one hand and cases in the other like they were waiting for a ride. We went and waited in my truck for awhile then they just walked off into the marsh, strange.

[venisonassassin]

Exact reason why the doe only season shouldn't exist. I'm sure several bucks lay and rot out their.

If you shoot one incidentally that is all that would happen is you have to pay the processing fee for the food pantry donation. That is what the warden said.

[Dewey]

Wow... Did you take a pic with your phone cam or anything? What about the warden, did he call you and tell you what happened? I would have thought that perhaps he would have let you have the deer after that initial night of staking out. Damn, see, that's why it would be awesome to be a warden... I'd think it would be pretty sweet to stakeout something like that. Dude would never see it coming.. He'd walk up to the buck in the dark and all of a sudden, "DON'T MOVE!". Hearing things like this is sickening, especially when the rest of us who mind the laws pass big ones up to be legal, all the while some dumb@ss shoots the big one we let go to abide the law. Some people could care less when it's on public land - they think, well, it's not my land and I could get away with this so why not..

Also, there were a couple suspect individuals in the parking lot when we walked back there. Two guys with guns in one hand and cases in the other like they were waiting for a ride. We went and waited in my truck for awhile then they just walked off into the marsh, strange.

Did they have backtags on? Shoulda wrote down the numbers just in case they were the guys.

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[venisonassassin]

Wow... Did you take a pic with your phone cam or anything? What about the warden, did he call you and tell you what happened? I would have thought that perhaps he would have let you have the deer after that initial night of staking out. Damn, see, that's why it would be awesome to be a warden... I'd think it would be pretty sweet to stakeout something like that. Dude would never see it coming.. He'd walk up to the buck in the dark and all of a sudden, "DON'T MOVE!". Hearing things like this is sickening, especially when the rest of us who mind the laws pass big ones up to be legal, all the while some dumb@ss shoots the big one we let go to abide the law. Some people could care less when it's on public land - they think, well, it's not my land and I could get away with this so why not..

Also, there were a couple suspect individuals in the parking lot when we walked back there. Two guys with guns in one hand and cases in the other like they were waiting for a ride. We went and waited in my truck for awhile then they just walked off into the marsh, strange.

Did they have backtags on? Shoulda wrote down the numbers just in case they were the guys.

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I didn't want to make any false accusations so I didn't look. They were young, that is one thing i noticed. I was young and dumb once upon a time.

[dan]

One of the 1st T-zone doe hunts they had by me a local guy and his kids pull up my driveway and ask if I want to see the kids 1st buck... I know its does only so I thought they were kidding. I went out to the truck and they had a buck in the back of the truck with a tag on it... I said, this is doe season? The kid ( about 12 or 13 years old ) smiled and said, I couldn't just let the biggest buck I ever saw walk past, what was I supposed to do? Then his Dad procedes to tell me that they called the warden and told him they "accidently" shot a buck and he came out a registered the buck and told them they could keep it, didn't issue a fine, but told the boys not to do that again.
The warden should of seen those boys driving from house to house showing it off...

[Brad]

One of the 1st T-zone doe hunts they had by me a local guy and his kids pull up my driveway and ask if I want to see the kids 1st buck... I know its does only so I thought they were kidding. I went out to the truck and they had a buck in the back of the truck with a tag on it... I said, this is doe season? The kid ( about 12 or 13 years old ) smiled and said, I couldn't just let the biggest buck I ever saw walk past, what was I supposed to do? Then his Dad procedes to tell me that they called the warden and told him they "accidently" shot a buck and he came out a registered the buck and told them they could keep it, didn't issue a fine, but told the boys not to do that again.
The warden should of seen those boys driving from house to house showing it off...

That is 100% the parents fault. The kid obviously was not raised proper, be it hunting or life in general if that was his response. I would say the kid needed to learn a very hard lesson right there, too bad they didn't get a ticket and lose the deer, this example only fueled the fire to do it again because he knows he got by with it this time. That parent should be ashamed of themself, and the kid should not be in the woods if that is how he conducts himself.

[venisonassassin]

One of the 1st T-zone doe hunts they had by me a local guy and his kids pull up my driveway and ask if I want to see the kids 1st buck... I know its does only so I thought they were kidding. I went out to the truck and they had a buck in the back of the truck with a tag on it... I said, this is doe season? The kid ( about 12 or 13 years old ) smiled and said, I couldn't just let the biggest buck I ever saw walk past, what was I supposed to do? Then his Dad procedes to tell me that they called the warden and told him they "accidently" shot a buck and he came out a registered the buck and told them they could keep it, didn't issue a fine, but told the boys not to do that again.
The warden should of seen those boys driving from house to house showing it off...

Yeah, that's just teaching a kid bad ethics. I can't believe they let him keep it.

[Bowhunting Brian]

Exact reason why the doe only season shouldn't exist. I'm sure several bucks lay and rot out their.

it shouldn't matter. rules are rules. even if the doe seasons were eliminated, these guys would find other ways to poach. a poacher is a poacher. what a shame on the guy who shot this deer only to leave lay.