Would you shoot a trophy tame buck?

[EastWaViking]

I'm not opposed to shooting a "yard buck"  I wouldn't call it a great hunt, but to fill a tag and the freezer, I have no problem with it.  Now if it was a domesticated or high fence deer, I'd say no.

[DOUBLELUNG]

Not my cup of tea, but the greatest need for harvesting deer is often around the urban interfaces, d/t collisions, garden/landscaping damage, etc.  

Where I worked in WY, there was no hunting within city limits, and a subdivision south of city limits.  We (Game and Fish) dispatched approximately 600 crippled deer a year.  Many of the big bucks were killed illegally.  

Would have preferred to have people who could hunt ethically and responsibly in that challenging setting, who wanted the meat, legally harvest those deer rather than letting bumpers, poachers, dogs and wire fences do all the harvesting.  Those kind of situations seem exactly like the type of situation for actual "master hunters" to have additional opportunities - if we could only weed out the unethical, kill crazy, poor judgement types from the WA program ranks.  maybe with time ...

[alanger]

I think i would have to pass.












NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   thats a trophy buck. i dont think i could pass unless i couldnt pull the trigger hes so big. 

[jdb]

well let me ask this, My neighbor raises buffalo and I was thinkin the other day if they were mine and it was time to butcher I'd drag out the hawkin and run maxi ball through one. Now I wouldn't take pics of my self like I was a mighty hunter or run around telling everyone how I bagged a buffalo with my punkin slinger so does that make me some kinda degenerate?

[alecvg]

Yes. 

[h2ofowlr]

Many of the blacktail around here don't see people to often, where you can hunt them.  On the otherhand on the east side I see all those bucks in peoples yards, fields close to house and then each year all the guys hit the fields and shoot them.  Is that like shooting a half tame deer??  Many are quite proud of those half tame deer they drove up to or near to shoot.   

[270Shooter]

Where I hunt in MT, the deer come over the ridge behind the farmer's house and literally eat their yard and garden. They also wander around the all of the farm equipment right behind the house. Now, these are in no way tame deer. I poked up over the ridge on Nov. 8th and saw 3 bucks laying on the egde of the wheat field sleeping, after 20 minutes of waiting I decieded to see if iI could get them to stand up so I could shoot the bigger buck. I wistled at them, and they immiediately got up and took of running. So I was like *censored* I just screwed this one up, but they finally stopped a 475 yards and I shot the buck.

Seems like during hunting season the deer just know people aren't good.