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What would you do???
#2077683
04/03/17 07:56 AM
04/03/17 07:56 AM
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Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 1,361
mman
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8 point
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You are hunting near the end of the season. You are the only one at your hunting club. You shoot a doe and while tracking it, you find the skull of a buck you know well. It's been there for about 2 years but is still in great shape. It is one that you had trail cam pics of and one you hunted for at least 2 years. You know who shot and couldn't find the deer but they are no longer in the club. They got out on their own, but left with some hard feelings with some members (not me). He had gut shot it because his gun scope was off (don't know the reason why, but it was supposedly sighted in before the season).
The deer is an 8 pt and just over 120", with an 18" spread, good mass and main beams that are 21 to 22 inches. It was an older deer and it had a very large body. It had declined from the previous year in which it was a very good 9 pt. It is a good solid deer for the area.
You no longer have the guy's contact information, but you know somebody who has it.
Do you:
1) Keep it to yourself, don't tell anyone, and just keep the skull at home?
2) Restore it and keep it at the club, maybe in the clubhouse?
3) Let his best friend know with the expectation that he will tell his friend. Then decide if you will return it if he asks for it?
4) Actively try to get in contact with the person that shot it so you can return it?
5) Something else???
A lot of things seriously went through my mind. I could rationalize several different outcomes. I wasn't really sure if there were any right or wrong answers.
So, what would you do???
Last edited by mman; 04/03/17 12:40 PM. Reason: Fixed typo to 2 years
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Re: What would you do???
[Re: mman]
#2077689
04/03/17 08:01 AM
04/03/17 08:01 AM
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Posts: 36,170
alabama
BhamFred
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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alabama
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take it to the clubhouse and nail it on the wall.
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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Re: What would you do???
[Re: mman]
#2077694
04/03/17 08:04 AM
04/03/17 08:04 AM
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Posts: 1,555
Jasper, Al
muddyfeet
8 point
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8 point
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Jasper, Al
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Just call the guy if you're positive that's the buck he shot, and see if he wants them. If he doesn't hang them up a the camp house.
EPHESIANS 6:12
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Re: What would you do???
[Re: jlbuc10]
#2077699
04/03/17 08:08 AM
04/03/17 08:08 AM
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mman
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I'd prob tell his best friend that you have it but if he wanted it he could come get it. He lives about 9 hours away from me, not that it matters.
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Re: What would you do???
[Re: BhamFred]
#2077710
04/03/17 08:21 AM
04/03/17 08:21 AM
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Boxes Cove
2Dogs
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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take it to the clubhouse and nail it on the wall. ^^^^^^^
"Why do you ask"?
Always vote the slowest path to socialism.
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Re: What would you do???
[Re: mman]
#2077714
04/03/17 08:23 AM
04/03/17 08:23 AM
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Posts: 31,681
Slidell, La
perchjerker
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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Slidell, La
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B'ham Freddy told you what to do. The deer belongs there.
Thomas Jefferson. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Life is too short to only hunt and fish on weekends!
If being a dumbass was fatal some of you would be on your death bed!
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Re: What would you do???
[Re: timbercruiser]
#2077730
04/03/17 08:31 AM
04/03/17 08:31 AM
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Posts: 6,384
D'Iberville, MS
MS_Hunter
12 point
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12 point
Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 6,384
D'Iberville, MS
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If you got along with the shooter I would attempt to get the rack to him. If he was a essobee I wouldn't worry about it and just keep it.
In your darkest hour when the demons come, call on me brother and we'll fight them together.
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Re: What would you do???
[Re: mman]
#2077737
04/03/17 08:38 AM
04/03/17 08:38 AM
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CentrAL
coach41
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4 point
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Posts: 296
CentrAL
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I'd say nail it up at the skinning rack. Let everyone enjoy it.
"Now boy, are you sure you can skin griz?"
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Re: What would you do???
[Re: BhamFred]
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04/03/17 08:55 AM
04/03/17 08:55 AM
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In a Van, down by the River
quailman
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Booner
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Posts: 12,927
In a Van, down by the River
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take it to the clubhouse and nail it on the wall. Then drink beer...
Life is a journey. Make sure and bring plenty of Beer.
My luck has been so bad lately, it could be raining pussies and I'd catch one with a dick broke off in it.
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Re: What would you do???
[Re: centralala]
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04/03/17 09:40 AM
04/03/17 09:40 AM
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mman
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Sorry, but my feelings is if you didn't pat him on the ass you are just guessing you killed this deer or any deer found. Seen many shot that survive only to be killed later....or shot and lost AGAIN. I know 100% it is the deer he shot. There were 3 of us hunting it. I knew the instant I picked it up it, it was the deer he shot.
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Re: What would you do???
[Re: extreme heights hunter]
#2077787
04/03/17 09:41 AM
04/03/17 09:41 AM
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mman
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cut the skull in half. mail him half and keep the other half. That's just wrong...
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Re: What would you do???
[Re: mman]
#2077800
04/03/17 09:59 AM
04/03/17 09:59 AM
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mman
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 [/URL]  [/URL]  [/URL]  [/URL] I bleached his skull and re-stained his antlers.
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Re: What would you do???
[Re: charlie]
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04/03/17 10:26 AM
04/03/17 10:26 AM
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mman
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I don't think that skull has been laying in the woods 3 years but I would tell them I found it aND send it to him if he wanTS it and if not do whatever I want with it. It's no big deal one way or the other though. If you don't recover the deer after the shot it wouldn't matter to me. You're right. It was 2 years. He shot it in the 2014/15 season and I found it in late Jan of 2017.
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