Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Deer Hunting Killed 3 deer today and couldn't lie out of it.

I was sneaking around in the woods today when I heard a deer blow up the hill near a windfall blowdown. My Binos revealed a doe kinda looking towards me at about 90 yds. I steadied my Tikka 7mag across a deadfall limb near me, and took the shot. Then I saw deer body move through the limbs... I aimed and shot again... then more body parts moving around.. so i shot again and it flopped over. WOW... I got one. Upon inspection... three deer lay behind the blowdown... two does and a yearling. I then panicked and hid the yearling under another windfall. Attached my two public land does tags and drug them down the hill in the opposite direction of my van, so I could drive around to them instead of a long drag back to my van... making for a closer drag with two deer to the closer road. As I'm walking back to my van... I'm thinking about what am I going to do with that yearling. I NEVER WASTE game, but what was I going to do.... and I wasn't happy about even shooting that second doe because one is enough per hunt ... NOT TWO .... let alone three. At my van the Badge Boys showed up with many questions. I instantly told them the story about the two does, and that one was an accident, in case two per day was illegal.,,which it's not... but i wasn't sure. They wanted to see the gut piles... where I shot from... and where the does lay... so I took them back and showed them everything except the yearling. The whole time my gut was turning over and over as the Holy Spirit was convicting me of that lie. Finally one guy said.. you shot three times and only killed two deer... I said yes sir... but then after walking another 10 steps I stopped, turned around to them and said... no... I killed three, and that I cannot lie about it any longer...do what you must, but I cannot tell you another lie. I then showed them the yearling and all hell broke loose with them and with my conscience of guilt for denying the Lord with that lie.

I tried to explain that both second and third deer were accidents... but it was all about the deception and lie... which I totally understood. I knew I had to come clean in order to live clean, because lying is never a part of my lifestyle. I'm always preaching against lying, and I knew i would be tested, but when it came, I folded and failed.
But now as I type this confession... I feel better inside... even though it will cost me money in court next month... but that's okay because money can NEVER be worth more than a clean conscience. On the drive home all I could think of was Bible Scriptures about satan being the Father of those who lie, and that no liars will ever enter Heaven... and the worst part was that I had denied the Lord... and that right there is what broke me up... and still breaks me up. Confession really is good for the Soul... and NOW... my soul feels good again with His Peace and Forgiveness.

I'm not sure why I'm revealing my sin today, but maybe someone can relate to it and find peace again.

Thanks Guys... May Jesus Bless You All in Many Ways.... Dan

PS... the testing of our faith is REALLY GOOD FOR US... even though it hurts... but only for a moment... eternity is nothing to play with... or dismiss.

So, what did we learn?

Hell, I just aim at schit moving around in the woods and shoot. That's hunting!

We all make mistakes.

Good on ya Dan for coming clean. Honesty is always the best policy. You will be forgiven.

Well, all liars will have their part in the Lake of Fire so honesty is always the best policy.

You did the right thing. I admire you for being a man and owning your mistakes. May God bless you

So, I’m a little lost here. Two deer in a day is not illegal, so why did they even want to go back and see where you killed them?

Odd story.

Like many I have read of his.

Hmmm...

Not sure what to make of that. Lying...

I do know you should be sure of what the hell you're shooting at. Body parts? Really? You should thank your lucky stars it wasn't another hunter. This is a good example to teach my Hunter Safety students. Unbelievable.

You aren't using "yearling" to mean fawn are you? Because a female yearling is just another doe.

It's admirable that you confessed, but why did you spill your guts in the first place? Just because a warden asks questions does not mean you have to answer. If he has evidence to prosecute you for an offence, let him prosecute, but don't hand them free information that may help lead to your conviction.

Wardens make most of their cases through Hunter verbal diarrhea.

I give you credit for admitting what you did but you ought to be a little more careful about what you are shooting at. Don’t think I would ever hunt with someone that shoots that indiscriminately. Part of your fine should be a hunter safety class refresher.

Wondering the same thing. I also don't think 3 shots at 2 deer is terribly unusual. Sounds like the warden was itching to write someone up.

My guess is that they probably wanted to see if he was baiting. Its legal in SC on private land but if IIRC not on WMA's.

Yup. Never wise to shoot unless you're certain what you're shooting at, no matter how many tags you have, and even if you're sure about the daily limit, which apparently our boy wasn't. Hopefully, he'll get a grip on his excitement or grow some smarts before he ventures out again. It's only a deer, and once you send that bullet on its way there's no calling it back, not to mention that not every brown thing moving around in the bushes is neccessarily a deer.

The day I learned pulling the trigger 3 times in 10 seconds is short lived fun....the work is back breaking and hours long...lesson learned
Tags for all and completely legal just dumb

Yeah, MY limit is one a day, because these days transportation to my car is strictly via Pappy Power, and one is about all I've got in me these days.

U should not have shared this, until you thought about it more.

Weird.