[Huntin'Honey24]

Thats just wrong--Karma will get them!!! Don't you worry, they will get sick from that deer meat! You just keep your head up and hunt hard! It will all fall into place!

 

[xswanted]

That just sucks.

Hopefully their car broke down on the way home.

 

[parker2936]

I hope so... Thank you.

I also forgot to add that from time to shot, to the time I found the gut pile was only about 40 minutes.

 

[Arrow_slinger43]

that sucks, but look at tit this way, its more time in the woods.:wink:

 

[Redemption]

I know we have been told countless and countless time to give them 30 minutes. But, if you make a solid shot, 5 min is enough time to wait before you follow. I don't know who wrote 30 min. rule in stone but they are wrong. After 5 min. you find a deer or you follow a blood trail and more than likely a lost deer. Gut shots not included. Always exceptions to the rule though.

What state do you hunt that has such a shortage of deer?

 

[godfathergator]

what comes around goes around...im sorry they got ur deer but keep on hunting..you will get another

 

[Jeffress77]

These stories bother me so much!

As a serious hunter who is proud of what he does, I encounter (like you all do I am sure) people who always ask, "What do you do with the deer?" I usually respond, puzzled, and say something like "Well, if I don't butcher it up myself I pay for the butchering. What else would I do?" and the response usually is "Oh, well, at least you eat the deer you kill and not just leave them there."

THIS ALWAYS MAKES ME ANGRY! I always say "I have been hunting deer since I was 13 years old. I have surrounded myself with other hunters my whole life, and I still have never met a person who I knew did that! If you read about a person who is 'poaching' deer and killing them and leaving them there, then it is a very rare instance, and that serious criminal should not reflect any of that upon me as a hunter." I still don't know anyone who kills deer and leaves them there, BUT IT IS IN THE PAPER AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR, AND THEN EVERYONE THINKS THAT IS WHAT A HUNTER DOES!


THIS IS EXACTLY HOW I FEEL ABOUT YOUR STORY!!
WHO DOES THAT??!?!?!!?!? WHO WALKS UP ON ANOTHER PERSON'S KILL AND TAKES IT!!!!!!!!!!!!????????!!!!!!!
WHY? WHY? WHAT DO THEY GET OUT IT?!?! ARE THESE THE PEOPLE WHO REPRESENT US?!? I CAN'T EVEN BELIEVE THAT A HUNTER WOULD DO THAT TO ANOTHER HUNTER. SORRY, BUT THAT JUST ABOUT BEATS ALL!!

 

[parker2936]

Its not the entire state, but I hunt in NW PA on the NY border. Numbers have been steadily decreasing for about 10 years now. But on the other hand, SW PA on the OH border has some of the best hunting within hundreds of miles. Where I hunt the primary food is Apples. There are also some acorns and beech nuts. But, you can go to an apple orchard with roughly 10 apple trees and see MANY apples on the ground, un-touched. Same with nuts. There just aren't enough deer to eat them. Hunting for days without seeing anything is fairly common. It is over pressured here, there are too many predators, and too much poaching. And no hunt-able private land any where close by. I hope I can connect though... Its not impossible.

 

[parker2936]

I agree Jeffress. I sure hope they needed the meat WAY more than me. I cant imagine anyone could get any satisfaction from stealing a deer? Its just so confusing...

 

[waterfordarcher]

Parker, I hunt NWPA, must be your distinctive area itself, still deer here..

 

[parker2936]

Im sending you a Pm waterford...

 

[warbird51]

i don't care what your doin in life. you will always come across these kind of people. they just weren't raised right.thats just how it is. it would be nice to catch them in the act, but then of course they'd sue. just put it behind ya. you'll get another chance.

 

[waterfordarcher]

Im sending you a Pm waterford...

got it parker..

 

[King]

Get back out there and tag one. It's a shame that someone would stoop so low but there's always those people that take the easy road. Good luck.

 

[the critter]

dude that sucks, i hate it for you. law of averages got ya man, one in three people suck...... like you said earlier hopefully they really needed the meat.

 

[BowHunter6666]

Its not the entire state, but I hunt in NW PA on the NY border. Numbers have been steadily decreasing for about 10 years now. But on the other hand, SW PA on the OH border has some of the best hunting within hundreds of miles. Where I hunt the primary food is Apples. There are also some acorns and beech nuts. But, you can go to an apple orchard with roughly 10 apple trees and see MANY apples on the ground, un-touched. Same with nuts. There just aren't enough deer to eat them. Hunting for days without seeing anything is fairly common. It is over pressured here, there are too many predators, and too much poaching. And no hunt-able private land any where close by. I hope I can connect though... Its not impossible.

How far are you from Sayre PA? Im fairly close to the PA border there is some great state land up my way. Treman Park which is right next to my house is bowhunting only and there is a good number of deer in the area. If you could make the drive im sure the land would be worth your while I was in there last year tracking a deer I hit on my property that went on to the state land and found a ton of deer sign. And sorry to hear about your deer thats really sick someone would steal your deer like that ukey:

 

[sits in trees]

what would drive another hunter into stealing someone's still warm doeknowing damn well that the guy is probable trailing it??there sure are some lame people out in the woods.

 

[AdvanTimberLou]

Sorry to hear this. Heartless people out there. If anything they should have waited there and when they seen you said here she is and helped you out.

So wrong but shows you what kind of losers are out there.

 

[pierce652]

I feel for ya. That is complete bs. If anything the proper thing to do would be to show you where she fell, at least thats what I would do if I came upon a freshly harvested deer.