Clyde Hollinger
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I have a question and a story for you guys to voice your opinions on. I'm curious to see what your thoughts are. First the story... My Brother was out hunting last Thursday night in an area that we knew held a dandy buck. I shot mine out of there opening day, 25" 4x4. He jumped a group of deer in the same patch of cedars, low and behold the big boy was with them. They went up onto an open side hill and stopped about 300 yards away. My brother put a bullet right behind the right front shoulder, the deer jumps, wheels around and starts going down hill. (Visibly hurting) He shoots one more time and misses high. Then the deer goes out of sight. He has to run around a hill to get another shot. As he's running he hears shooting in the direction that the buck was going. He crests the hill just in time to see the deer go down. He works his way down to the deer, and is met there by two other hunters. He tells them that he had hit the buck and shows them where he hit him. There is an entrance hole just behind the right front shoulder and a large exit hole in front of the left front shoulder at the base of the neck. One guy pipes up and says, "F-YOU! This is our F-ing deer we got him". My brother points out that they were shooting at the left side of the deer and there was no way the could have hit it where it was hit. My brother says, "well I feel like my shot was a fatal shot, and this should be my deer, and I'm going to tag him". The same guys says, "F-You this is our deer, and if you touch it I'll blow your F-ing head off!!" Well after a bit of a heated discussion my brother decides to back off, as it was two againt one.
My question is, how do you guys feel about a situation like this. Was it ethical for this other "hunter" to do this? Would you have done it? What would you have done? And yes, it was an out of town, city slicker who did it.
Keep in mind this deer was a monster, 6x8 33" wide. (Ok, maybe not a monster in some of y'alls book, but a monster in our eyes)
Let me know what you think!
Later,
Elkster
My question is, how do you guys feel about a situation like this. Was it ethical for this other "hunter" to do this? Would you have done it? What would you have done? And yes, it was an out of town, city slicker who did it.
Keep in mind this deer was a monster, 6x8 33" wide. (Ok, maybe not a monster in some of y'alls book, but a monster in our eyes)
Let me know what you think!
Later,
Elkster