Author Topic: Anyone ever had a deer stolen in the woods (Read 896 times)

arcticmike · « **on:** November 17, 2003, 01:15:16 PM »

Last sat I was sitting in my stand at 5:45am about 7:00am 5 does walk up on me so haveing 1dmp and a doe tag, I say what the hell I draw one the biggest doe and get lucky with a spine hit dropped her on the spot,so while im waiting for her to die a couple more does come back and I draw and take another but this one I hit a little farther back,what ended up being a liver shot,so she ran about 75yds then laid down out of sight.So I waited a good hour then got down from my tree stand and checked the first doe gave her a kick in the butt she didnt move so I pulled my broked arrow out of her and laid it on her.Now I go tracking the other doe I have an arrow nocked ready to put her out,so I walk up on her bout 10yds away she doesnt look like shes breathing so I take a step closer and she pops ups and runs away (scaring the hell outta me )So I pull aout my cell phoe and call my buddy (Tracker joe)to help me get her and drag 2 does out.So I go back to my first doe and she is gone noware to be found but a blood spot on the ground.I standing there indisbelief knowing theres noway she got up and ran off then I looked for my broken arrow and that gone also,no drag marks no blood trail or anything also Ididnt hear any other hunters(oh yeah my broad head broke off in her spine shockwave mech)so I go and find the other doe dress her out drag her to my truck and my buddy pulls up and I tell him what happend.Being another hunter he flips hops on his 4 wheeler and goes scoutin.Im waiting at my truck and hes comes flyin in saying a truck just had a deer on a trailer but he couldnt catch them on the road,so we were saying screw it when what do you know the white truck goes by again wiht a deer on it so we hop in the truck and fly up on them then pass em and pull them over.I asked them where they got the deer and real neverously told me where then I told them what happend to me and the passenger said he took a shoot and blood trailed the deer so I asked him where on the body did he shoot her he stated lungs,then I told him the doe I hit was a spine hit and my broad head was still in there,I asked him if I could look at the doe and lowin behold there is a shockwave broad head still stuck in there.So now the guy is saying it was a big mistake and his deer must be still in the woods,so they took there take off and loaded it up for me in my truck.then i asked them if they saw my broken arrow laying on the does back.Of course they didnt.And they picked the deer up off the ground thats why there wernt any drag marks.

01magnatec · « **Reply #1 on:** November 17, 2003, 03:19:04 PM »

they are the type of people that give all of us a bad name
it has happened here to a non resident we invite up every year. not fun

Myk · « **Reply #2 on:** November 17, 2003, 10:04:12 PM »

That's why you're supposed to tag them when you find them. Like that's going to do anything but get the thieves to cut your tag off and replace it with their own, not only costing you the deer but your tag. :roll:

Hasn't ever happened to me but not too many hunt within dying distance of me.

It has happened to my nephew-in-law and his father on public ground. My nephew is even a cop.

If you want to include the person I hunt side by side with refusing to believe he missed and I killed the deer taking it you could say I had one stolen. For the first time ever and only he checked this deer in without field dressing it. He knew it was my slug inside and field dressing it would've told him who shot it.
I even told him before he left the woods that if he found my slug to come and get me to tag it. After it got boring I went up to see how it was going and ask, he said he hadn't even looked for it yet but there was the check station tag on the leg. So I started digging around and there were parts from my slug (that he tried to claim were his so we matched them up and it was mine). We ended up splitting the meat.

It's not like I tried to steal his shot either. I told him he missed (I was watching the deer in my scope). I told him the deer was getting up (it bedded down right after the shot!). I waited until it was running off and he missfired before I shot it. If he would've listened to me he would've missfired when it was bedded and shot when it was getting up.

willis5 · « **Reply #3 on:** November 18, 2003, 07:01:04 AM »

I was hunting the marsh in Dorchester County Md. near Blackwater Wildlife Refuge with family when I was younger. We were hunting for sika deer. Behind my stand i saw antlers going through the grass, but I couldn't get a shot on the body. it was at least a 6 point, but my grandfather shot it when it went to his stand and he said 7 point. (For a dorchester sika buck, that is a monster) anyway, he shot it and it ran. we followed the blood trail to our neighbors land, and they claimed that they shot it. and wouldn't give it up. They didn't even shoot... We were sick. Actually, I think that that was the largest sika that we have ever seen on that property.

arcticmike · « **Reply #4 on:** November 18, 2003, 11:27:41 AM »

I consider myself lucky that i cought them.It was kindof nice of them to drag my deer and gut it also load it my truck for

S.B. · « **Reply #5 on:** January 21, 2004, 09:59:20 AM »

My brother and I used to rifle hunt in Wisconsin about 20 years ago. While walking out of the timber one evening, we ran accross an old hunter who said he had killed a buck earlier that afternoon. When he approached the buck a woman came running up and said that this animal was her's. Upon examining the deer he discovered that her tag was on the leg. He said he told her that if she could run that fast, he would relinquish the ownership to her. Evidently what had happened was she had wounded the buck and after tagging it, the buck had gotten on his feet and ran off with her in pursuit. Strangest story I've ever heard of deer hunting!

New Hampshire · « **Reply #6 on:** January 21, 2004, 01:17:41 PM »

A game warden here told us a trick an old "salt" used to do. He tagged his deer on the tounge. As the deer starts to cool I guess the tounge pulls back into the mouth (Im not sure bout this cuz Im still pretty new to hunting and I gut, drag and butcher before the deer has a chance to really get that "old") He had a deer stolen, and informed the wardens. So of course all the registration stations kept an eye out and low and behold the deer showed up at one and the guy was fined and all the lovely stuff that goes with poaching.
Brian M.

whitecloud · « **Reply #7 on:** January 25, 2004, 09:11:02 AM »

Yes,my sons FIRST deer.11 years ago,opening am.A 13 class 8 pt with a 10 inch bonus drop tine feeds past me at 20 yrds heading toward my son.Minutes later bam bam,At first I thought some one else was in the woods because he was shooting a single shot.Well,it turned out that was the quickest two shots ever from a single he shot buck.We waited about twenty min,tracked it towards road,as we approach road some PUKE is loading it up in his Custom conversion van.Make a long story short,he hauls balls out of there,we couldnt catch him.NOW,,,two weeks later,the sme van shows up at my neighbors house,question him about it ,denies, denies, denies.I finally found out that it was a brother in law of my neighbors friend, who WAS up visiting on opening day.In the end I stomped his but,my neighbors friend but and still get alng with the neighbors.Those"friends" dont come down my street anymore???LOL

WNY_Whitetailer · « **Reply #8 on:** February 21, 2004, 03:45:26 PM »

Never happened to me but it did happen to a friend of mine...He shot a buck and was trailing it. When he found it another hunter was standing over it. My friend said that it was his deer and the other hunter swung his gun up and asked my friend "Who's deer is it?" My friend said that it is your deer and he took off. Now my friend is a cop but this happened 15 years ago when he was 18. The unfortunate thing is that my friend was unable to get a tag# off of the guys backtag so he was not able to follow up with the Conservation Officer. Too bad....

S.B. · « **Reply #9 on:** February 22, 2004, 03:17:54 AM »

WNY_Whitetailer, your freind handled the situation correctly. It's always better to retreat and be able to fight again, another day(through the law). The villian in this case was not a true hunter, only a criminal in disquise. If we hunters start shooting at each other the anti's will win for sure, better to let the DNR people handle this case and prevent the bad guy from participating in our sport.

SingleShotShorty · « **Reply #10 on:** February 25, 2004, 08:20:52 AM »

When I was 14 it happened to me with my first deer. I was hunting alone as my father was sick and in the hospital and a local rancher set aside 480 acres for me to hunt and advised me that no one else was to be in this area. Well opening morning of gun season that year I shot what looked to me as a 150 class 10 pointer with my 20 ga. shotgun with slugs. The buck ran after being hit so I waited for awhile and then started following the blood trail. Well as I was following the trail I came up on a couple of older gentlemen gutting my deer. I told them that the deer was mine and that I had been following the blood trail. They said that I was wrong and that they had just shot the deer. I had not heard any other shots and besides they were trespassing. They became very angry when I told them again that the buck was mine and that they were trespasing and had no business being there. Needless to say at 14 I was a little scared and angry as well, but they were older and bigger than I was and they loaded up my deer and left. I told the rancher about it and he was extremely ticked off and tried to find them but had no luck. To this day I still look back on this and can't believe that a grown man would take a deer from a kid.