Drswoll69
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If your ever unsure on something, call your local game warden to be safe .Spinning off the other Mercy Kill thread…
At what point is it legal or illegal to ‘mercy kill’?
If your ever unsure on something, call your local game warden to be safe .Spinning off the other Mercy Kill thread…
At what point is it legal or illegal to ‘mercy kill’?
No idea how someone would be able to walk away from the deer or the cow because of some print in a book.
I've had 2 wardens over the years try to pull this junk and threaten to ticket me.I once passed a doe that was hit by a car on my way to work. It was in the middle of a busy highway and obviously paralyzed. I called both DNR and sheriff to see if I could put it out of it's misery before the morning traffic picked up (I'm certain someone would've called me in had I done it without permission). I was told NO by both. Felt pretty bad for that deer.
That's surprising, I've had the opposite experience in WI. We found a buck behaving strangely, not scared of humans in the middle of opening day of rifle season. This was a high CWD area so we called the DNR and they told us to shoot it and leave it. They came out a day or two later and picked it up, tested positive for CWD. This was also on private, not sure if that makes any difference.Took me 8 hours to finally give a mercy kill in WI a couple years ago.
My bird dog pointed a nice 10pt while out looking for roosters with a buddy one morning and we found a bedded buck that couldn't get up with an arrow through the guts. The poor thing was all emaciated and had been there for a while. Seeing as how I hunt that area frequently, I didn't want to dispatch with my shotgun and had left my knife at home. Took me 8 hours of being passed back and forth from DNR to County Sheriff to get in touch with the warden who told me we could only intervene if we had a tag for the animal and took it via a legal weapon for the season. So I tracked down a buddy to buy a bow tag and we hiked back out to dispatch him. Tried to salvage meat but it was all ruined and he had already lost a lot of muscle mass.
Sad deal that is way too overcomplicated. Probably that way because some a**hat used the excuse or abused it in a nefarious manner. If I didn't hunt that area frequently, I probably would've just taken care of him on the spot but I didn't want any potential headaches.
I agree - 2 years now I have used my antelope B tag on "mercy kills" in that my last 2 B tags were used to dispatch (and take the meat) from wounded does. This was done legally within the scope of my tags. This is as far as I can or will take it.I appear to be the odd one out. No way am I risking getting my gun confiscated, fines, court cost and loss of hunting privileges over something like this. It sucks, but is what it is for me.
Had a similar experience a few years ago on a very nice buck. He had no obvious signs of injury, and we suspected he had been hit by a car or broke his back fighting with another buck.Took me 8 hours to finally give a mercy kill in WI a couple years ago.
My bird dog pointed a nice 10pt while out looking for roosters with a buddy one morning and we found a bedded buck that couldn't get up with an arrow through the guts. The poor thing was all emaciated and had been there for a while. Seeing as how I hunt that area frequently, I didn't want to dispatch with my shotgun and had left my knife at home. Took me 8 hours of being passed back and forth from DNR to County Sheriff to get in touch with the warden who told me we could only intervene if we had a tag for the animal and took it via a legal weapon for the season. So I tracked down a buddy to buy a bow tag and we hiked back out to dispatch him. Tried to salvage meat but it was all ruined and he had already lost a lot of muscle mass.
Sad deal that is way too overcomplicated. Probably that way because some a**hat used the excuse or abused it in a nefarious manner. If I didn't hunt that area frequently, I probably would've just taken care of him on the spot but I didn't want any potential headaches.
Seriously?? Other hunters are the reason poachers get caught 99% of the time. I could care less if people are watching me because I'm following the rules. There are far fewer wardens than what is really needed to enforce game laws. Having hunters in the field help is far from a problem.That's one thing I see as wrong with the hunting game - everyone is so worried about what everyone else is doing. Folks can't give anyone the benefit of the doubt, and instead have F&G/GW on speed dial, ready to save the world from all the bad people - of which everyone else falls into that category.
That's why.
I can see it now..Something of note: there is a precedent for cell phone companies aiding poaching investigations by giving law enforcement lists of folks who were active in an area during a certain period of time. Your private activities are not private.