Big_Holla
Senior Member
It's all fair game IMO, just as if you were buddies hunting the same place. Would you feel different if you had shown him #1 & #2 first??
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Maybe I'm weird, I'm crazy happy for someone to kill a good buck. If he ain't that type of guy...then that's his problem, not yours. Do what makes you be able to sleep at night.
the Lackster
Junior Member
Take a selfie with your kill and send it to him. Also thank him for the nutrition he supplied for HIS deer. If he has a problem tell him to keep his dang deer on a leash next time.
the Lackster
Junior Member
Not being harsh but I have had a boat load of deer on my property over the years that my family and I have let walk to let grow just to get hammered when they jump the fence. Unless you have a permit and a high fence you don't own deer and I understand that. Having said that if it's a shooter deer in my book and it presents a shot it's a dead deer.
Dan always has a way to point out the obvious lol....
Any of the shooters coming by will get an arrow heading it's way.... He's cool with it and I'm targeting the one he hit last year and made a bad shot on it.... Left side is a little weak this year but he's got some mass and height too him....
He's about 500 yards from my closest stand and right now they're making their way to two of my stands from the property he's hunting as the beans were put in late and will be green for at least another week and a half or so....
Lots of interesting ways to let him know if I'm lucky enough to score one of them but a picture of it laying with he Xbow against will suffice lol....
Hortontoter
Senior Member
I would agree with everyone else as to the fact that they are not HIS deer.
But, I was in that same dilemma for three hunting seasons at my place. While I was hunting Splitter, and only Splitter at my place I asked, not demanded, my stepson and hunting buddy to let him walk if they saw him. But, in reality if one of them had killed him, so be it. I played it the way I did for a few reasons. I owned the property, did 90% of all work there, my wife did most of the remaining 10%. I had built and placed all the stands, I paid all the expenses for electricity and did all the upkeep. I ran all the trail cameras, without them no one would have known the deer even existed. All my stepson and my buddy did was show up to hunt for the most part. The only person that helped out much was my SIL that doesn't hunt at all.
Some would say I was selfish, which I don't agree with at all. Any other buck they saw was fair game for the taking. And there were plenty of other decent deer to choose from. If the three of us had been hunting a property that we all just had permission to hunt I'd have never thought the way I did. No one owns a free range deer.
But, I was in that same dilemma for three hunting seasons at my place. While I was hunting Splitter, and only Splitter at my place I asked, not demanded, my stepson and hunting buddy to let him walk if they saw him. But, in reality if one of them had killed him, so be it. I played it the way I did for a few reasons. I owned the property, did 90% of all work there, my wife did most of the remaining 10%. I had built and placed all the stands, I paid all the expenses for electricity and did all the upkeep. I ran all the trail cameras, without them no one would have known the deer even existed. All my stepson and my buddy did was show up to hunt for the most part. The only person that helped out much was my SIL that doesn't hunt at all.
Some would say I was selfish, which I don't agree with at all. Any other buck they saw was fair game for the taking. And there were plenty of other decent deer to choose from. If the three of us had been hunting a property that we all just had permission to hunt I'd have never thought the way I did. No one owns a free range deer.
If I was in your situation Dick, I'd of done the same as you owned the property and allowed the other two to hunt it.... No different then a landowner who doesn't want bucks shot but take all the does you want... Your game, your rules....
the Lackster
Junior Member
I really think alot of people underestimate the range of a stiff dick buck. The amount of land they can cover over a 24 hour period amazes me.
With that thought in mind, I have to say ..... I hate it when guys who lease land believe any deer there are " theirs ".
Hell they don't even have to be leasing it. I hunt with a guy on a farm we both have permission on and he thinks that way lol
Not much to add here. Shoot it J and be proud of it. Nobody owns any deer unless they are high fenced.
Archertl
Senior Member
If he is a decent person and a man he would congratulate you for legally killing a nice deer. Shoot the deer if you get a chance end of story.