found dead deer

[BlackRidge]

What a waste!! 

[Idabooner]

Looks like open country, no brush it should have been easy to find with a little effort. What a shame.

[Quick Draw]

  Man Hunterman and I would have given anything to see either one of those bucks during the season, to go along with our 2 point we got... That is a waste of good meat!!!!! If I were the one to shoot the 2 by 1 in a 3 pt area I would hone up to it, tag the deer and admit my mistake and accept what was coming for me. What a bunch of *censored* non hunting basturds!!!!!!!!
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[Alaska316]

    Just a waste...

[markts]

Sad deal

[steeleywhopper]

When Mule deer are that small I don't even try to put 3 points on them. It has a recipe for disaster. I myself have found too many dead deer like the small one you found. If you have to strain yourself to try and figure out if it is a 3 point you should probably hold off. Just my opinion. I hate seeing people in the woods without binoculars in 3 point minimum areas. It ought to be mandatory.

[C-Money]

Sad. Very sad. 

[runningboard]

If you have to strain yourself to try and figure out if it is a 3 point you should probably hold off. Just my opinion. I hate seeing people in the woods without binoculars in 3 point minimum areas.

I agree, even it has 3 points, I sometimes wear my binocluars out trying to figure if it's an inch, have always ended up passing on marginal. sad to see but we don't know that the person who shot the bigger one "didn't try", like someone has already said, that hunter probably lost sleep over it.

[Martinhunter]

Man that makes me sick.. I found a 1x2 while hunting in winthrop area last month, someone had shot, and must of saw that it was a elegal deer after the fact. STUPID people

[Ihuntelk2]

             

[Gutpile]

I can't imagine being of the state of mind that I'd do this. I sometimes even feel bad with coyotes can't imagine doing it to a deer.

[cohoho]

Waste of good meat for sure.... 

[hirshey]

Very sad.. I'm sorry this happens. Those animals certainly deserve more respect than this.

[GEARHEAD]

LOL, was it far from a road. every winter and spring i find one or two this way ( bones of course) by a yote spot of mine. pretty sure that they are road shot, during the season, deer fails to drop, and the shooter drives off, rather than spending time looking for it while trespassing.

[Hangfire]

The person that shot the legal buck may not have been aware that he had hit it. I have talked to so many people that shot and assume they missed because the animal did not show any indication it was hit. They don't even walk over and look. I was about a mile from the road out of Yakima, and came on a dead spike elk (had a unusual crooked horn on one side). This was only a hour after opening morning. I went about 1/4 mile and talked to a couple of hunters and ask how they had done. One said he had shot at a spike with a crooked horn and missed.  I ask if he had went to see if he had hit it. His reply was"No,  if I hit him with this Weatherby even in the leg, he would have went down" I directed him to the elk.