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Give it to the kid, i mean come on. That stinks that land owners can say no you can't go get your game, thats crazy
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Zap wrote:If you agree to flip a coin then you live with the result, not go to the media and ask for a do over....
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I would get way more pleasure from letting the kid have the deer. Its just a deer
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Turn the deer into two bucks.....
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I would get more satisfaction out of giving the deer to the kid myself, the kids father is a total tool for going to the media. why does everything have to be blown into a huge deal these days.
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Regardless of where the hit was, give the kid the buck. Congratulate the kid and let him know that you were happy to help him finish the deer off, but it is his deer. The kid shot the buck and doesn't understand that he didn't mortally wound the deer. He just knows that he shot the buck. He is an 11 y/o kid!!!
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I really think that if it wasn't mortally hit then he shouldn't get the deer. That is something we all have to go through in our hunting career, that being if we don't shoot well then we won't get to tag our buck. Teaching a child otherwise is not a good thing for hunters. Accuracy should be a foundational lesson that can only help him in the future.
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I know the kid is 11 and in away it should be the "right thing to do" but take away the age factor n I feel its the other guys buck. A leg shot is not a lethal wound. He will learn to shoot better. Its part of the game we all should know. If u don't kill it some one else might. Sorry kid. Id have gave it to him but still would understand if some one didn't.
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on the flip side the kid should know how things work in the deer woods. do you really want to mislead the kid into thinking any deer he shoots at is going to be his in the end? I learned at an early age that just because you hit a deer does not mean that its yours, finders keepers. almost 30 years ago I shot a big buck with my bow and looked for it for 3 days straight, my parents even let me take off school. on the 3rd day my parents got a call from a guy in town that wanted to speak to me about this deer. when I called and described the deer to him he said that he had found it but was not giving it to me, it was going to the taxi to get mounted. I cried over that deer, would still have been my biggest buck to date.
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We don't know for sure that the kids shot was the one in the leg...
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I personally would have given the kid the deer, but if i was his old man it would have been a different story. Although we have all done it, wounding a deer is unacceptable. And thats the lesson he has to learn. I being his father would have taught him that. On a second note in CT the law states whoever performs the mortal shot on public land owns the deer. If your the first there or not. If it runs onto private its up to the landowner. Most of the time landowners give the deer to the hunter.
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As I posted in Dan's thread about the wounded buck, just yesterday I shot one that an 11 year old had hit. Where did the 11 yr old hit it? I don't know. I didn't hit it first and was just doing a mercy killing, so I didn't even go up to the deer. By doing the right thing and putting it out of it's misery, and for immediately saying they could have the deer, I got permission to archery hunt his land (they only gun hunt) as the father of the boy respected how I handled the entire situation. I view it like this - it's getting harder every year to recruit and keep young hunters, and if my situation helped fuel the fire for this kid, then I feel even better about it. The father indicated that his kids have interest in bow hunting, but he doesn't have the time or knowledge, so they just never got into it. I am going to offer the father that I'll help the kids out, they can sit in stands I'll put on the land, etc... I have a lot of private land (and tons of public) to hunt, and one more private parcel isn't going to make or break my season, but if I can get two youngsters into archery hunting, I'd walk away feeling even better about the deal.
In the situation in the article, I personally would have given the deer to the kid for the reason listed above regarding keeping young hunters enthused of the sport.
In the situation in the article, I personally would have given the deer to the kid for the reason listed above regarding keeping young hunters enthused of the sport.
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Even if the kid hit it some where else I still feel the same. We all play by the same rules. 11 or 50 or 80 yrs old. Morally he should have given it to the kid..legally he is the owner. At some point in our hunting lives we deal with situations like this. We need to be prepared for it to go either way.
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If i felt like the hit as non-fatal and I finished it off then I have no problem keeping it. If I felt like it would be a fatal hit like a gut shot or broken shoulders and I finished it off then I would let any hunter keep it. I think the idea of a private land owner not letting a hunter access to track a wounded animal sucks. I understand they payed for the land and also pay the taxes every year but c'mon. I think in MI if you ask the land owner and they deny access then you can call a CO and they can help remind the land owner that it is a good idea to be nice.
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