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@&$%'ing poachers!
Txs
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I have a little pig trail dirt road that runs alongside my property and from time to time have to deal with teenage couples, people dumping unwanted pets, etc. but my latest experience has got me really twisted.
I got home from work the other morning and found a six pointer lying dead on my property less than 50 yds. behind my house. It appeared as if it got popped along this road during the night and headed for the nearest cover, but balled up in my field halfway there. Apparently they either didn't see where he finally dropped or my dogs scared them away from approaching to retrieve their kill.
This comes three days after I found the fresh remains of a doe carcass a short distance down this road from my residence. They'd taken the meat they wanted and just left her where they shot her.
It's bad enough these people are out of season/road shooting deer - especially at night - but this last one is entirely too close to where my family sleeps.
I've lit a fire under the local authorities to increase their presence and had a talk with the game warden. I invited him to put one of those mechanical deer on my place, but their availability is pretty limited.
I got home from work the other morning and found a six pointer lying dead on my property less than 50 yds. behind my house. It appeared as if it got popped along this road during the night and headed for the nearest cover, but balled up in my field halfway there. Apparently they either didn't see where he finally dropped or my dogs scared them away from approaching to retrieve their kill.
This comes three days after I found the fresh remains of a doe carcass a short distance down this road from my residence. They'd taken the meat they wanted and just left her where they shot her.
It's bad enough these people are out of season/road shooting deer - especially at night - but this last one is entirely too close to where my family sleeps.
I've lit a fire under the local authorities to increase their presence and had a talk with the game warden. I invited him to put one of those mechanical deer on my place, but their availability is pretty limited.
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Would love to sit with the ranger watching it. Think that would be fun.
They did put one up, actually a few days early.
The landowner was one of the first ones caught shooting at the dang thing from the road!
These fake deer contain electric motors which flick the ears and tail or turn the head. According to the wardens if a poacher's rounds damage the mechanism they're also made to pay for repairs. [:D]
A game warden told me about setting up on one and seeing a pickup slam to a stop out on the road about 100 yds. away. He watched (and videotaped) a guy * his 12 year old son out to shoot it. After the kid fired twice and the deer was still standing the obviously pissed father took the rifle from him and started firing at it himself. They then moved in and busted both of them.
These fake deer contain electric motors which flick the ears and tail or turn the head. According to the wardens if a poacher's rounds damage the mechanism they're also made to pay for repairs. [:D]
Nuthin' liken teechin em yung.
Maybe it just got hit by a car andran out into your field to die?
Heard That Mechanical animal has gotten a lot of people. They have an Elk they use in this area. They made sure people would want to shoot it, its got one Massive rack.
Would love to sit with the ranger watching it. Think that would be fun.
they got one of them around here and a friend of mine is with the DNR. he said the best one was a guy pulled over and spot lit the thing while the passenger jumped out and took rest on the hood, then bam, deer still standing, bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam all rapid like when they moved in on the guys they found that he emptied a thirty round magezine on an sks into the thing, they confiscated the gun and the truck and the guy got a heavy fine. all he said was "I couldnt figure out why they dam thing wouldnt fall!"
It really doesn't surprise me since the entire area around us is mostly 5-10-20 acre tracts and very little,if any,Game Warden presence.[:(]
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Was there a bullet wound?
Maybe it just got hit by a car andran out into your field to die?
The buzzards had already started their work by the time I found it, so no I wasn't able to spot a bullet wound.
Scavengers will generally start with soft tissue areas. When I found this one I saw they'd been working on the ribcage area heavily, but hadn't touched the eyes/nose/lips yet. While not definitive, this leads me to believe there was a decent size open wound in this area.
This road it was found near isn't much more than a dirt trail that's only kept open to allow pasture/hay meadow access for landowners down that way. Vehicles can't get up enough speed to kill a deer on it. I'm also taking into account this happened within three days of me finding a doe minus hindquarters and backstrap just a few hundred yards down the road.