Would you tag somebody elses...

[adam.WI]

It's legal in WI where I'm from and has been going on for years. There was a time when you put in for a doe tag as a group and say you might get one tag for six people.(long before my time) Times have changed a bit now, to damn near limitless tags for individuals, but if it was legal I would have no issues doing it out here. It all tastes the same regardless of who shot it.

[jrebel]

I take more pleasure in watching my wife and hunting partners harvest deer than I do harvesting them myself.  Last year on the last day of rifle deer, I was with my wife and my hunting partner.  My wife had her .243 in tow, hunting parntner .308 and myself .270 (I bow hunt, but carry a rifle for yotes, bear and cougar).  A very respectable 3 point muley showed himself mid day and was well within shooting range.  Less than 100 yards.  My wife didn't feel comfortable with the shot because the deer would not stop walking and my hunting parnter could not calm his heart beat (first year hunting).  Never the less neither one got a shot, and it really didn't matter.  It was super exciting and now I get to razz them for years   .  Moral of the story, I could have shot that deer with out a problem, but it would have ruined the moment and taken the sport out of hunting.  The lesson that my wife and hunting parnter would have learned was meat is more important than the thrill of the hunt.  

[bowhunterforever]

Well i am a disabled hunter and someone can shoot for me but the only way i would let someone shoot/tag my game for me is if i shot it and it runs for a mile+ and down in a hole and i couldn't get to it, then i would let them finish/tag my deer or whatever it was.Other than that i would never.

[tazz]

definitely not i have to much fun going out trying to harvest an animal if i wanted someone else to shoot and tag an animal for me i would go down to safeway and buy my meat. that's my

[LongTatLaw]

I just 3 days in Peaches with Tmike and didnt take my bow even though I have my deer tag,  didnt want anyone thinking I was helping him try to fill his tag!

I ABSOLUTELY wouldnt let anyone use my tag...maybe my boys when they get older but before we can get them their own

that said...

if it was legal... Id fill every damn tag I could for every person that would let me!!!!

In GA you can kill 12 deer a year and I did that every year for 9 years straight...Id do it here too if legal!!!

mmmmmm   12 elk a year sounds like fun

[Gutpile]

 
if it was legal... Id fill every damn tag I could for every person that would let me!!!!

 

 

[Skyvalhunter]

no

[NWBREW]

mmmmmm   12 elk a year sounds like fun

I'd settle for 1

[firedog]

if it was legal... Id fill every damn tag I could for every person that would let me!!!!

If it was legal yes but it isn't here so NO. Wouldn't even do it for my kids because I think that is teaching them the wrong thing.  Now if it was legal I would let them shoot every legal animal they could

[micdude]

I say kill them all 

[D-Rock425]

I had a bull permit for archery season this year and there was a guy in the next camp that said if I got a shot at a cow to shoot it and he would tag it and split the meat with me.  I told him no way.  I shot a cow and put my tag on it. Maybe I made a mistake shooting a cow when I had a bull permit but I like having the meet in the freezer and its hard to pass a shot on an elk at 14 yards.

[elkaholic]

Nice job D rock. thats hard to pass

[boneaddict]

No chance.  Only scenerio I could think of is if I let my kid do it but highly unlikely.

[bearpaw]

Depending on what part of the world you are from, hunting customs vary. If you are from the east coast "party hunting" as it is called is a normal accepted practice. I often have to explain to east coast hunters that "party hunting" is not accepted here. It is actually hard for them to understand why they shouldn't do it since they grew up with "party hunting" being perfectly legal and socially acceptable. Out here in the west it is illegal in every state as far as I know.

It's sort of like spotlighting, which is very acceptable in some parts of the world for many different types of hunting like coons, coyotes, fox, possums, frogs, leopard, etc. But the minute you mention spotlighting, somebody imagines the worst, that you are a deer poacher.

Gutpile did the right thing by avoiding the situation since "party hunting" is illegal in the west. The important thing is to follow the game laws no matter where you live. But I do have to wonder if those guys grew up back east....