Pegleg Deer would you shoot?

[jackmaster]

It could be an archery injury or perhaps hit by a car or some disease or perhaps infection.  I thought I would shoot him just to end his pain knowing full well his days are numbered any way you look at it.

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   I have done this before.  Kinder than letting a pack of coyotes eat him alive...

:yeah:my dad did this a few years ago and he is pickier than me when it comes to blacktail, but this buck was wasted away by a bad infection in his back, couldn't even get up hardly, dad shot him and tagged him and did everything except eat it, the meat smelled like he had gang green all through his body, pretty sad, but that's what being a sportsman is about I have more respect for animals than I do most people

[lokidog]

Weather girl shot a three legger a few years back. It was missing a front leg below the knee.  Smelled horrible, the state issued her a second tag.

Yours sounds relatively healthy, I would shoot either way.

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[Bango skank]

A doe showed up at my place today with a bum front leg, cant put any weight on it.  Her days are numbered im sure.  Limping bad.

[DaveMonti]

Years ago, the farm I hunted in Pennsylvania had a gimpy doe.  One of her front legs must have been broken and healed at a weird angle and her knee wouldn't bend.  She walked funny, but she got around just fine, and due to her injury, she must have compensated by becoming VERY smart!  She was the most "aware" deer I've ever seen.  She'd walk down a trail and stop and look right up at me in my treestand several times a year, snort and off she'd go with the herd following her. 

Anyhow, we gave her a free pass out of respect and because she was entertaining to watch.  She was around for quite a few years and had twins every year, even though the hardest winters I can remember.  Tough old broad!

[fishnfur]

OK, well then, what if it had two missing legs?  Would you still kill it?   

[csaaphill]

Either you take him, another hunter takes him, or the winter eats him. I say put him down. Could it be an arrow wound?

Not necessarily Me and my dad for a few years seen a doe on this one hillside almost every year called her Gimpy she survived at least two winters if not three.

[csaaphill]

But is it legal then yeah more likely I'd take it. But not so much because it's going to die but if it's legal. If not let it go watch it though if possible and see if it lives. Odds are if not injured to the point of Eminent death then it will likely live.

[chukar58]

That's a good cross section of perspective for Pegleg and if he shows himself on my watch I will give him a dirt nap.