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Deer Hunting / Shooting someone else's injured buck - etiquette question
« Last post by GeoSwan on Today at 06:38:51 PM »My brother and I heard a gunshot and saw a nice injured buck crest over the plateau into a drainage. He had a dangling front leg and no kneecap.. A survivable injury ultimately.
The hunters who shot him appeared at the top of the plateau 15 minutes later and clearly didn't see that the area the buck went into was a mere 100 yards away from them. They gave a feeble attempt at trying to locate the deer and turned around and walked away.
We ended up shooting the deer who had by now dropped a few hundred feet in elevation and was sitting under a cliff. My brother snuck up to him and put him out of his misery.
I called WDFW to get an actual legal opinion on this and they said what I though: If everything else was legal, which it was, (tag, 3 point min, shooting hours, public land etc.) then you were fine from a legal standpoint. I know I know, shoot first and ask questions later, but we were 99% sure what were were doing was legal and we were ultimately correct.
I think I know the answer that most of you will give, which is yeah, go put meat in your freezer because the first shooter was done looking for it, but I just want to see of anyone had any other opinion on this from an etiquette perspective.
The hunters who shot him appeared at the top of the plateau 15 minutes later and clearly didn't see that the area the buck went into was a mere 100 yards away from them. They gave a feeble attempt at trying to locate the deer and turned around and walked away.
We ended up shooting the deer who had by now dropped a few hundred feet in elevation and was sitting under a cliff. My brother snuck up to him and put him out of his misery.
I called WDFW to get an actual legal opinion on this and they said what I though: If everything else was legal, which it was, (tag, 3 point min, shooting hours, public land etc.) then you were fine from a legal standpoint. I know I know, shoot first and ask questions later, but we were 99% sure what were were doing was legal and we were ultimately correct.
I think I know the answer that most of you will give, which is yeah, go put meat in your freezer because the first shooter was done looking for it, but I just want to see of anyone had any other opinion on this from an etiquette perspective.
