In a heart beat with giving it a second thought.

I think it was awesome! Congrats to the young man!

The deer obviously belonged to someone else, and he knew it. This wasn't a free-range deer, it was someone else's source of income.

Good for that young man

I think I would have called the neighbor. If the neighbor had a hunter I would have charged a $19,900 trespass fee. Well, maybe split the fee and put it in my kids college fund.

Yeah, and then you figure out its a bag of counterfeit bills!

If an escaped HF freak is what your after, I would have to agree. I wouldn't see it as any great accomplishment.

I am of two minds on this. Apparently, what the hunter did was legal (not criminal) and so I can't fault him for hunting the deer.

On the other hand, he did go after somebody else's property/income and knew he was doing it and did it for the purpose of personal gain (trophy, notoriety) and not out of a need for some sort of protection. This buck wasn't destroying the land and wasn't a CWD buck that needed to be stopped before it bred. That I find to be an unethical thing to do. I would not do it.

So it may be legal, but not a good legal.

Low income here. Spent money foolishly, hunting leases, every one els was doing it. Didnt put back for college fund. Kids grow up, its eathet low income job, or military.

why would anyone care if YOU see THEIR deer as a great accomplishment or not? and why do you care to begin with? is killing a deer about recognition?

and what if the hunter was your kid and it was the greastest day of his life? would you poopoo it?

ego is the underlying issue with most HF/LF threads.

For those who say the deer belonged to the person who owned the property it escaped from, at what point is that person responsible for their animal that escaped? If this is not now a wild game animal, is the owner of that animal responsible for what it does? What if a car hit it and somebody dies? or just the damage to that car? What about eating your crops? While the article never mentions the owner of the animal, or anything he did to try to recover it, I would think that if he was actively trying to recover it, that would be one thing. If he wasn't, then wouldn't it be fair to assume he has abandoned that animal? Given that there was some history of it appearing on game camera pictures must indicate that it had been there for a period of time. How long should the owner of that animal be allowed to wait to do anything? If it's the case that he isn't aware of where his animals or, or what he has, then at what point is his ignorance or negligence in keeping his animals fenced in factored into the question of whether he has abandoned his claim to that animal or not?

For anybody with one or multiple animals worth close to $20,000 each, how realistic is it to expect the owner to not know where that animal is most of the time?

Eddie

BINGO!

I have no idea what you’re talking about. If it was the greatest day of his life, I would think it was due to the accomplishment of shooting the deer...... If shooting the neighbors livestock with an ear tag in his ear (a tag put in by the owner's of the animal) is the greatest day of the guys life, I would just have to use the phase my grandmother always used, "bless his little heart."
I mean, I have no comprehension of why this would be someone's greatest day of their life. It could be a 400" deer.....who cares? Call it captive, livestock, pet, whatever......killing it an displaying it a trophy is a complete joke.

I'm sure that deer wouldn't try to kill you if backed into a corner, I image he would cuddle with you also.

So tame that he fled the coop!!

If they will give me $17999.00 I would not shoot it, I would even go as low as $10000.00..............

I'm sure you wouldn't

just call it a great looking buck and move on. nobody is saying the kid is the next fred bear for killing it.

Yeah, I agree.

I'm sorry, but that deer has an ugly rack. If it makes the kid or whoever pay's $20k
for that sort of thing happy; then more power to them. I'd rather have something that has
that classic symmetrical look. Big strong rack, but not freaky.

I say congrats to the kid.. And to bad it didn't walk out in front of me this year, I bet he was real tender to eat..

great job on the kill !!! the only ones that wouldn't shoot it are the ones that didn't have the chance.

Lot of interesting info oops, just farted

I wouldn't shoot it without talking to the owner first. I would know it belonged to someone else and I wouldn't feel right about shooting it.

I would have let it knock up a few of the local does before I did anything. I wouldn't feel right about shooting it before talking to the landowner before hand either. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against shooting behind a high fence or shooting an animal that come from a high fence, but at the same time that animal had a tag in its ear and tells me someone else paid money for that animal to be on their property.