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Pick it up and take it home. Done it before and will do it again, of course none were monsters. And only private land.

[/ QUOTE ] same here. If it is anything with size the DNR are going to take it.
 
I think I'll pitch in here and agree with you also Saskguy. I'd keep the thing no doubt. There is absolutely no harm done if you find a dead buck and keep it, especially if it is after the season. I can understand if it was a fresh kill or something and you can tell it had been shot, then that's going to be a whole different scenario. If that is not the case then heck yes I'd bring him home. If it is indeed a law that you can't keep a bone that you find in the woods, I think that is a law in need of revising. Just my 2 cents.
 
Interesting post. If I find a dead buck, which I do alot when I am operating machines in the field after late muzzleloader season, I usually hang onto the rack. It may be a "crime", but most of the deer I find is usually just a skull, coyotes have had there way with it. Another thought, I have had this happen to me, You shoot a monster buck, and it wasn't the best of shots and you lose your deer. You harvest another nice buck and fill your tag. Later on you find your first buck. Are you entitled to the first buck you shot, or do you just leave it for the squirrels? Another thought, the buck that got away from you scored around 170. In my case, take the horns.
 
I know what I'd like to be able to tell everyone. That I'd do the "right" thing and call the right people and they would give me the tag I should get and we would all be happy. But I really don't know what I'd do. Is it wrong to say that it depends in the circumstances, how big, how decomposed, how far from my home/truck
I try to do the right thing, be an example to my kid and others, but I'm still just a man and stuggle with temptation and don't trust many people. It would most likely be at home and I'd say it was a shed.
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i keep on hearing the same thing it depends on the size.What does the size have to do with it, to me nothing, and it should not matter to the DNR either.If a person never found it the squirrls would eat it up.I f i find a a skull with antlers no matter what size it is I am taking it with me. Point blank.No exuses no regrets.At least somone can enjoy its beauty.Another point is if you hit a deer with your car the deer that the state owns, will they pay to fix you car? No way, your on your own.Sounds to me if it benifts them its ok.They only own it for material gain.which is sad to me.Big or small it still a deer.If thats a rule then they take the little ones to.
 
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Interesting post. If I find a dead buck, which I do alot when I am operating machines in the field after late muzzleloader season, I usually hang onto the rack. It may be a "crime", but most of the deer I find is usually just a skull, coyotes have had there way with it. Another thought, I have had this happen to me, You shoot a monster buck, and it wasn't the best of shots and you lose your deer. You harvest another nice buck and fill your tag. Later on you find your first buck. Are you entitled to the first buck you shot, or do you just leave it for the squirrels? Another thought, the buck that got away from you scored around 170. In my case, take the horns.

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Not just trying to be a jerk, but I feel this need addressed. You are most certainly not ENTITLED to the first buck you shot because you CHOSE to walk away from it and shoot another buck. This becomes even worse if it is a 170 rack. As a comparison, if you are married to a beautiful girl and get tired of her for some reason and divorce her and marry another then run into her 2 years later and she is still single are you entitled to have both women, or just the one you tagged?
We seem to be in an age of entitlement. You must understand that whether you agree with the laws or not, if you take the extra rack home you are breaking the law and that you do it willingly. You are not entitled to anything other than what you tag legally.
Sorry but I really dislike the term or idea of entitlement. Several times a week I have people in here that feel they are entitled to a new car just because they need one to get to work, or their friend just got one. Never mind the fact that they didn't pay for the last 2 that were reposesssd, or that they don't have any money for a downpayment, or that they just charged off $15,000.00 of credit card debt that they couldn't get rid of with bankrupcy , they are ENTITLED to a decent car for transportation for them selves, their girlfriend and their 3 illegimate children.
Boy that really turned into a blast didn't it. Sorry.
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the last senctence I wrote, "in my case, take the horns," was actually answering Saskguys question. The point I was making was I shot a buck that would score around 170 this year. He got away from me, poor shot, 1 1/2 of rain that night, all odds stacked against me. I looked for over 20 hours for the deer. nothing. I did however fill my bow tag on a nine point that I am very proud of. So what I am asking is, when I'm out shed hunting and I happen to run across this deer, should I take it or leave it, how would this be different if I found a deer that someone else lost? So If I were the one to shoot it and not find it, but find it 5 months later, I can't take the rack, but If someone else shot it, I can take the rack. In February there is no tags to burn, so I can't use my other tag for it. I guess I should just take my camera and take a pic of it before the squirrels get to it. I guess what I was asking what is "ethicall" just leave the rack, or take it and say it was the one that got away. Apperantly there are a few of you that have never been put in this situation.
 
Bottom Line is the wildlife, in this case Deer,,belong to the "Public", or the "State". The DNR represents the STATE. We have no right to touch any part of them, unless the "State", gives us permission. Personally, I believe they belong to the Creator, but that's a whole other topic. I guess the Gov. has to take over, for practical purposes, to regulate fairly all us humans.
 
Very interesting post. After reading most of the posts I am starting to think there are a few people who say one thing and would probably do another. We all have situations we know of which tend to drive our opinions. I will throw this one out there as well. Last year I knew a guy that shot a doe and a small buck in the same night, he recovered the doe but decided not to look for the buck that night. He donated the doe to the hush program. The next day he found the buck and the coyotes had gotten to it. He talked to the DNR and this particular officer issued the guy a salvage tag for the buck because the meet was no good. The hunter obviously didn't care about the meat or he would have kept one of the several does that he donated. The same guy later killed another buck a little bigger then the first one. In one of the posts on this topic a guy said that he had hit a nice buck that he couldn't find and later had killed a nice 9 pointer. If he would have found the first buck dead later how would that be any different? And before some of you write back and say well the first guy got a salvage tag, save it, just because someone knows someone that can give them a salvage tag doesn't make it right. Saskguy this is a terrific topic, and the good thing for you is with the monsters you seem to kill every year you probably would have a hard time finding a dead one to fit your standards!!!!! Congrats again on a great buck.
 
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Bottom Line is the wildlife, in this case Deer,,belong to the "Public", or the "State". The DNR represents the STATE. We have no right to touch any part of them, unless the "State", gives us permission. Personally, I believe they belong to the Creator, but that's a whole other topic. I guess the Gov. has to take over, for practical purposes, to regulate fairly all us humans.

[/ QUOTE ] So basically all sheds you find belong to the state and we need their permission to take the antlers. The shed came from their property, so there for we better get their permission to take what is theirs.
 
If the State wanted to push it they probably could say that about sheds. Although come to think of it, the antlers fallen are just an appendage of the deer, not the living animal itself. I am not standing up for the idea that the wildlife is State property. It is just the way it is. Some law enforcers are strict on this matter, some are not. I had an experience up in MI, with the DNR, when I lived up there. My neighbor told me about a deer hit, that was dieing on the side of the road. He said it looked savagable meat wise and that I should go and get it. I went up and looked and he was right. The poor thing was trying to raise up. So I spent all day on the phone trying to run down an official. I really didn't want the meat, but my neighbor thought he was doing me a big favor. I wanted to put the thing out of it's misery. Finally, at the end of the day I got ahold of a DNR officer. He said to just go up and kill it and take it home. I said,"Hey I don't want to get caught doing that without some kind of tag or something official". He sounded annoyed that I was bothering him with this, and said if anyone questioned me, just to give them his name. One other time, in my early hunting career I was lectured though, by a CO to the effect that the animals were property of the State. I guess for all practical and legal purposes, they are.
 
Oh Yea, by the way, the suffering deer was finally dead, when evening came and I got back to it. I did salvage some meat from it. Never saw anybody.
 
I think that the state laying claim to the "bigger" deer saves alot of deer from being potentially poached. Let's say they didn't take them. Anybody could go out and shoot a Booner, drag it off to some ditch and wait a few weeks to "accidently stumble onto it" and take it home.
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I would have no desire to tag a deer that I did not shoot myself no matter how big it was.

It would have no memories for me other than I found it dead.

I would rather save my tag and harvest a deer that I busted my tail for.

The hunt and opportunity to engage animals is why I hunt.
 
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