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Ghost

Ghost

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Shed hunted an area where the farmers took the crop rats into their own hands from the looks of things. Who needs paperwork and depreditation tags?

I lost count of the dead deer on this place.....

I'm pretty sure the auto insurance companies have hired out "sharp gut shooters".....in the area.

Our state DRN didn't add these to the harvest statistics.....

I hope everyone knows I am being very sarcastic...but all I could think of is what a waste!
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I lost count of the dead deer on this place.....
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I found 4 dead deer on my own place Ghost...it is pretty disgusting at the waste. I'm guessing they were shot at from the road and just left to run off an die. Can't count all the dead deer I've seen in my shed hunting travels...
 
I'm with ya Ghostie... I had been stomping some pretty small areas that all connect and I am up over 2 dozen dead does in these small draws and woodlots. Seems like an awful lot for the urban setting I'm in for I know they're not all road kills.
 
The numbers of dead deer that we saw during the Late ML season was staggering. Many of these deer were gutted and left in the timbers. We found numerous bucks shot with racks removed. A lot of anterless deer simply shot and left to rot.

Now I know that deer are wounded every year and many go off and die and are never recovered, this happens. But what’s going on down in my area is blatant poaching. And the DNR and County Law Enforcement know who the criminals are.
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They say they just haven’t been able to catch them in the act yet.

Then there is the property owner issue “those deer are eating my crops and I will kill as many of them as I can”. I do believe a land owner has the right to protect their crops, but IMO killing deer without depredation tags is no different than poaching. And worse yet, many of these property owners will not allow deer hunters on there property.

The there’s another extreme. I know of a landowner who has a salt block and a mineral block in his front yard so his family can watch the deer. But when the bucks started trashing the Evergreen Trees in his yard he shot several of them! He doesn’t hunt and he had no tag! I explained to him that if he moved the salt/mineral block out of his yard that the deer would be less likely to damage his trees. His reply was: “but we like to watch the deer up close”. Go figure???????
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I've found as many as 9 in one pile. They fill up a truck slip the tags off and go at again. I'll bet theres 20 to 50 in a few miles of me.
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