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What do you do?

Postby Lefty » 04 09, 2022 •  [Post 1]

A young gal shot a nice little bull. She , the boyfriend and his family spent a day looking for the bull and never found it.. She was sick about the whole thing and at this time doesn't plan to hunt again.
She shot the bull the middle of September.

9 weeks later a muzzleloader hunter found it and brought it back.
Whose antlers are they. I told the finder I knew who shot the bull,, He found hem , she didn't find the bull, he packed them out. they were his.
What would you do?

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Re: What do you do?

Postby Swede » 04 09, 2022 •  [Post 2]

The antlers are his if he wants them. Personally, I would give them to the lady that shot the bull. She is hurt by the whole experience and if those antlers would make her feel a little better, I would gladly hand them over. If he is desperate for the money, he could ask for the value of the antlers.
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Re: What do you do?

Postby Jhg » 04 10, 2022 •  [Post 3]

Whose antlers are they? The finders. The gal does not own them by wounding and not recovering the animal.

What Swede said. A tough lesson.
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Re: What do you do?

Postby Indian Summer » 04 10, 2022 •  [Post 4]

I wouldn’t hesitate to give them to her. And when I did I give her a pep talk telling her it happens to everyone and that she needs to learn from her experience and keep on hunting!
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Re: What do you do?

Postby 7mmfan » 04 10, 2022 •  [Post 5]

If she wanted them, I'd happily give them to her. Maybturn her hunting career around.
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Re: What do you do?

Postby Tigger » 04 11, 2022 •  [Post 6]

I cannot imagine fighting or creating bad feelings over a deadhead.
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Re: What do you do?

Postby Jhg » 04 11, 2022 •  [Post 7]

It does not happen to everyone. I hate hearing that. As if it is a given every hunter will wound and not recover an animal at some point. When did that benchmark become our standard? Putting on my flame suit. Let er rip.
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Re: What do you do?

Postby Swede » 04 11, 2022 •  [Post 8]

I would not contend that what happened to the lady that lost her bull is inevitable, but it happens. It is the responsibility of the hunter not to take risky shots and to do everything reasonable to recover the critter they shot. If you ever shot and missed, then you were just lucky you did not end up wounding the animal. You obviously did not hit where you intended, so the rest was just luck. I will confess that I have killed two elk that I lost. Both died within 200 yards. Neither left a blood trail. One went into a hole uphill from the main trail, and I could not see it. The other switched back and went upslope and died. I found them both, but it was too late to recover the meat. I felt terrible about the loss and still do.
Do you know what I did after finding the elk? I went hunting.
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Re: What do you do?

Postby Elkhunttoo » 04 11, 2022 •  [Post 9]

His if he wants them…having closer in anything is always nice so at least she gets it with or without the horns
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Re: What do you do?

Postby Lefty » 04 11, 2022 •  [Post 10]

Elkhunttoo wrote:His if he wants them…having closer in anything is always nice so at least she gets it with or without the horns


The boyfriend had closure: however he doesn't think she will hunt next year.
Just the excitement of those two before her shot was really incredible.
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