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This kind of goes off the Colorado buck story. We don't know the whole story but it sounds like a pretty tame deer.
If you had the chance and everything was legal would you shoot a trophy size buck that was pretty much tame, everyone liked the buck and it lived in a sub division it's whole life? If the buck made one wrong move were you can shoot it would you?
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You mean if it was in my own back yard or something?
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If it was as big as that Colorado buck, not only yeah, but, HELL YEAH
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Maybe?
I've been chasing a huge blacktail that lives in my neighborhood (not this year) and ate my deer tag last year b/c I couldn't find him. Its not a subdivision but everyone around me has 3-30 acres and I have permission to hunt about a 25 acre parcel where he hangs out. He's definately not tame.
I guess what I'm getting at its not black and white.
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I think there would come a time when I would be forced to shoot that monster "tame" buck, just to prevent him from dying of old age.
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No i would not.
If i lived where there were "trophy" deer hangin around and tame.
I would make a really nice mineral lick holder with an antler collector around it and enjoy the sheds every year.
And for venision, a nice tender younger non rutted deer tastes so much better.
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if the buck was actually tame, like the deer at wallawa lake, i would not shoot it, thats why the sport is called "HUNTING" for me the main thing about hunting is having to try hard to get close enough to the animal for a shot and not scaring it away, shooting a tame deer would not make my heart thump the way i like it to when i stalk an animal, it would be a boring waist of you tag. well maybe not a waist of the tag, but definantely a boring way to fill your tag.
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i would shoot it but i wouldnt call it a trophy, It's a bad example to the other deer so it needs to be shot right?
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Depends. Each situation is different. If I did, there would certainly not be any claim from me that he was anything but what he was.
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A game farm animal? NO! Just like I'd love to go on a guided hunt some day, I'll never go to a Texas style fenced in zoo of exotics either. That's not hunting. It's shooting.
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like biginner said it is not tame eat out of your hands kind of deer, by the sounds of it. like the wallawa deer. just because a deer lives around people does not make it tame. like the elk in yellow stone. they will kick your ass if you f with them to much or get rut crazed. so yes since it is not tame in my book i would not have any problems hunting a deer just because it lives around people.
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ya, living around people does not make a deer tame, coming up to you to eat would qualify as tame, and yes, even though yellowstone elk are always around people, they will definatly kick your @ss, especially if you come within two yards of a cow elk feeding her fawns, to take a "close up photo"
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Dad and I were in a bar in Yakima... A man in his 30's was sitting at the bar.... Drunker then a skunk... it was 10am... A truck in the parking lot had a nice two point in it.. (before 3 point min) Asked if it was him celebrating... He said no drowning his sorrows... Didn't know if he could ever shoot another deer.. Why I asked.. A friend said he had a bunch of deer on his property and wanted them scarred off and shoot the nice buck if he could... He was much obliged to hunt on private land... Pulls up at sunrise.. Heads around back into the field.... See's some deer with a nice buck making his way toward him... He couldn't believe it... Laid him down... Woke everyone up.. His friends wife and kids rush out to find him gutting (insert pet name here) and that they raised him this and that.. In tears. He was coming up to him for his morning treat... Don't know if it's true or not... But the guy was pretty tore up...
I found it very amusing... But that would really suck....
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I agree with the others.. Eat out of your hand..No.. Around people.. Yes. I hunt Central Montana where the deer flood into the Alfalfa fields in the evenings and they are 50 yards from the house and even come in the yard and eat roses and such. Tame? No.. Used to being around people.. Yes. If we put a sub-division in the middle of Big Buck Habitat should we chase them all off??
I had a huge Blacktail Buck in my neighborhood (1-5 acre lots) a coule years ago. Double Drop tine Non-Typ. You couldn't feed him out of your hand but he wasn't spooked by people either. You could walk up to within 10 feet of him and he would just slowly raise his head and meander away. I could have shot him but decided it wasn't my thing. If he was wild and skiddish and in the neighborhood I might have.. My neighbor shot him at 7 yards out his sliding glass door on the first day of Archery Season. He's such a great shot he hit him in the gut and he ran 500 yards before dying on someones back patio.
It's not Black and White.. There are a lot of variables. Would I have shot that Buck in Colorado?? If I was on a chunk of land that was legal to hunt and that buck ran by? Probably. Unless I lived in that development and then maybe not.. If it's not YOUR neighborhood I think people's opinion might change.
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I shot my deer this year basically in a guy's backyard. They are used to people but I wouldn't say they are tame. The property owner, along with most of his neighbors want the herd thinned. I was happy to help out. Might do it again next year if I don't get one in the early season.
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