Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire I ended my deer season on opening day due to another hunter.

I saw a set of antlers sticking out of the brush today, I put my cross hairs on them and waited for him to get up. When he finally stood up I put one behind his shoulder, he jumped the fence he was laying next to and fell over. When I approached I noticed that some other sloppy hunter had already shot off his left hind leg, and blew off half his right hind quarter. I thought to myself that he was an amazing animal being able to jump a fence with his previous injuries and my 130 grain interbond through his lungs. Before I finished the job the other guy started his injuries were not immediately life threatening, he could have suffered for days. I am thankful that things turned out the way they they did, I put my tag on him and took him home.

You did the right thing, good job

If the meats bad call F&G, good chance they will give you another tag.

Today was opening day the wounds were pretty fresh

Good work

I collected a 3 legged doe late last year out of the kitchen window. The way she was hobbling about and with our coyote population it was better she die a quick death.

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A friend had that happen. Bow hunting, saw a small racked young buck obviously suffering and sickly acting with an arrow already through it's neck. Out of mercy he killed it and tagged it with his only buck tag even though it wasn't near the age and quality of deer he hunts. The old wound was festered badly too. Contacted local game warden, was issued another buck tag and thanked for being an ethical hunter.

Mistakes happen in the field and not all hunters are that good of a shot. Chit happens if you hunt long enough

Good show!

Been there, done that. It's not a hard decision to do the right thing.

Long time ago, I was sitting on a hillside and a gutshot doe came struggling by. I shot her with a DRT. I didn't know exactly what to do because I didn't have a doe tag. While I was thinking about it, a voice from behind me ask if I was going to claim my deer. Turned around and it was the game warden. I explained what had happened and that I didn't have a tag. He said that's Ok, he had spotted her earlier and had been following her to get her. He ask me to help him clean her and get her to the road. I did and he thanked me for the help.

I've done that a couple of times, once with a young four-pointer someone had gutshot, and once with another young deer some dumbazz had shot the lower jaw off.

Didn't hurt my feelings a bit, I fed the first one to the hogs and the second to the dogs.

I know I did the right thing by both deer. I don't like leaving anything to suffer.

Good choice the right thing to do.

Not an out of his misery story - but one of the nicest bull elk I ever shot was bedded and I shot him in place with follow-up shots to anchor him since he was close to a trail hunters used to climb up to the hunting area. When I got to him and tried to maneuver him he was missing his lower left leg below the knee. The knee was completely haired over and the stump was twice the size of the other knee. Animals heal sometimes from some injuries that you would expect to be fatal.

Always best to take them out when injured,I hate the thought of coyotes getting a free meal,

I shot a bedded buck one time that appeared to had been hit in the rear end by an auto as best as I could tell. I didn't realize it until I skinned it out. If it had not been hit would I had still had the opportunity at the shot?... who knows... stuff happens

A mechanic i work with shot a previously shot (as in it was mostly healed up on the outside) It was full of infection on the inside.

I've killed a couple with obvious wounds, one with an arrow sticking out of his backstrap that wouldn't let him lower his head enough to eat off the ground.

I didn't even walk up to the carcasses.

i killed a boar that had been shot in the head before, couldn't tell till the skull was bare and you could see the bullet hole in the skull that was still healing.

I took a nice mule deer buck several years ago about a week into the season that had been shot in the hip and the ankle on the same back leg. It was on a ranch with limited permission and not too far off the highway. I expect someone took some shots from the road but when the buck ran off never bothered to check on him for fear of a trespass charge.

I had permission on the ranch and jumped the buck just a half mile off the road. After seeing what had happened I checked out the bed. It looked like he'd laid there quite a while.

When I dressed him the meat on the injured hind quarter was noticeably warmer to the touch. The meat on the rest of the animal was edible but not the quality of every other mule deer we'd killed on that ranch.