Bond Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 What are the rules(or laws) in your area? Can someone shoot a deer in the leg and still tag it if another hunter finishes it off? Can someone shoot a fatally wounded deer just before it expires from another hunter's bullet and tag it as his/her own? EDIT: Most people are answering about when two strangers shoot at a deer. And that's great I guess that's what I was asking. But I'm also curious, is it the same way among friends and family members? Maybe if you're doing a drive or if you're hunting togeter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbucks Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 Re: First blood or whoever finishes it off? i have no clue to tell you the truth i think who ever shot it first and its dead its thier deer! unless it would leave unless you shoot it..i mean like live to were it can run fine its not in pain can ,make it threw a winter! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VtBowhunter Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 Re: First blood or whoever finishes it off? I believe in Vermont it's the "Kill" shot, not just first blood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrow32 Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 Re: First blood or whoever finishes it off? No clue. But if i had to guess its who puts the tag on it first. Or who gets to it first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoyt_hunter Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 Re: First blood or whoever finishes it off? whoever lethaly kills the animal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QDMAworks4me Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 Re: First blood or whoever finishes it off? I don't know the state rules but ethics tell me that the first fatal shot on the deer would be the one to tag it. If someone shoots a deer in the leg and it runs out in front of me and I shoot the deer in the vitals I will be taking the deer home with me!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Born2Hunt Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 Re: First blood or whoever finishes it off? [ QUOTE ] I don't know the state rules but ethics tell me that the first fatal shot on the deer would be the one to tag it. If someone shoots a deer in the leg and it runs out in front of me and I shoot the deer in the vitals I will be taking the deer home with me!! [/ QUOTE ]DITTO! The first leathal shot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockefeller66 Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 Re: First blood or whoever finishes it off? I really don't know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest brl Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 Re: First blood or whoever finishes it off? in our hunting group it is first blood Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pointing_dogs_rule Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 Re: First blood or whoever finishes it off? I am not sure what the law is in Iowa. With that stated: I would not want to put a slug into a deer that is MORTALLY WOUNDED and claim it as my own. "Ethics" tells me that it is the other hunters deer and that the deer would have eventually died an the other hunter would have found the deer dead in a reasonable time period. I would not want a deer hanging on my wall and then tell someone: "well he was shot 2 times in the lungs and I finished him off". To me "it's all about the hunt and not the kill"!!!! That's just my opinion. This fall a guy took the front leg off of a ugly 10 point and I put him do a 1/2 hour later. I gladly gave him the buck in exchange for some doe meat. Just my opinion Good luck to all the dog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnf Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 Re: First blood or whoever finishes it off? I've never hunted close enough to someone else for that to happen. If it did, I would have to say whoever made the first lethal shot should take the deer. ei. If someone double lungs a deer, or even gets a good liver shot where the deer will expire, and I drop the deer, I've just made a easier tracking job for the guy who got the deer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stinger-Hunter Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 Re: First blood or whoever finishes it off? That's a good question, to be honest I don't remember ever reading an Indiana law that stated that issue. If I shot a deer and it was not a lethal shot and someone else took it, I would have no problem with the deer being taken by the other hunter, but if you shoot the deer, it runs 100 yards and is about to expire or would have expired and someone else kills it, that is questionable to me. I guess it depends on where the first shot was for me. But like I said If I found out what the law was, I'd of course have to obey it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tedicast Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 Re: First blood or whoever finishes it off? Not sure what, if any laws there are in CT regarding that. If I put down a deer, that someone was actively bloodtrailing, there is no way I would feel right claiming it, even if my shot was more lethal. Within the small group of people I hunt with, definately first blood. We would consider the follow up shot a helping hand to a friend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 Re: First blood or whoever finishes it off? I'll doubt you will find there are no "laws" concerning who has legal rights to the deer, elk, bear, whatever. Its expected in sportsmanlike conduct. Proving that your shot was the vital shot is about impossible when both are hunting closeby unless the shots are far enough apart and there are other witnesses. It should go to who ever made the vital shot or whoever tags it first in the event of a long tracking job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NY_Bowhunter14 Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 Re: First blood or whoever finishes it off? whoever makes the lethal shot, if you shoot a deer in the leg and then someone shoots it in the heart, the person that shot it in the heart tags the deer with friends, i dn't know, i would prolly stick with the fatal shot part seeing as if it wasn't for your friend that deer would still be alive... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerClay Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 Re: First blood or whoever finishes it off? I've been here before. Back in 1995 I had a non-typical 10 point walk into the middle of one of our drives. He walked in front of me as if he had never been shot. I fired 3 times and killed the deer. I wasn't even on the deer yet and this guy starts screaming at me. He claimed that he had shot the deer. Upon examination it was discovered that he had gut shot the deer. Both of us wanted the deer so a shouting match ensued. We decided to let a CO determine who the deer belonged to. The CO informed me that it was the person who delivered the kill shot and he awarded me the deer. We later found out the the guy who gut shot the deer was trespassing. Ranger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smitteken Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 Re: First blood or whoever finishes it off? We usually play first blood. 2 years ago my younger cousin was out walking and shot a small button buck. We went in the thicket to find him and we jumped him. So I shot him and killed it, but I gave it my cousin considering if he hadn't wounded hit it first we wouldn't be that thicket anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimT Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 Re: First blood or whoever finishes it off? Here it is whoever finishes off the animal. If I was to shoot a deer, and have it run off, and another guy shoots it and finishes it off, it is his. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZooBear Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 Re: First blood or whoever finishes it off? The biggest guy wins! LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 Re: First blood or whoever finishes it off? I don't know that there is a law in Ohio, but I've heard of stories of guys tagging deer they never even shot, or shooting a deer that's already dead. Those situations usually happen on crowded public land during gun season around here. Ethically, I'd say it's whoever puts the kill shot on it, if you hit one in the leg, and it hobbles over to me, and I put an arrow through it's heart, that deer is mine IMHO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoosierhunter Posted January 13, 2006 Report Share Posted January 13, 2006 Re: First blood or whoever finishes it off? Indiana law reads that the last person to draw blood legally has the right to the deer regardless of who made the kill shot....explain: If I double lung a buck and he runs to the neighbors propery and he shoots the buck in the leg then it is his deer. The reason for this is b/c it's usually hard to show who hit the buck first. Now we all know there is different blood from a leg hit and a lung hit but that's how it goes....My take here is if I'm the only hunter in the woods with my gun and I nail on I'll let him run without another shot, but if I know the neighbors are hunting I will try to punch him through both shoulders to knock him down instead of right behind the shoulder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian_Shooter Posted January 13, 2006 Report Share Posted January 13, 2006 Re: First blood or whoever finishes it off? round here its who ever finishs it off....or who can fight the best if it coems down to it lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirage Posted January 13, 2006 Report Share Posted January 13, 2006 Re: First blood or whoever finishes it off? i am not sure either, best to ask the local dnr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swamphunter Posted January 13, 2006 Report Share Posted January 13, 2006 Re: First blood or whoever finishes it off? I'm not sure but my opinion on the subject is Legally - whoever kills the deer (lets face it, a deer shot in the leg or ham may not be fatally shot, but the first hunter did draw blood) Morally - whoever made a good shot on a deer and is actively pursuing it. I wouldn't take someone else's deer. Unless they were trespassing on my property when they originally shot it Then it would be going to the EnCon officer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWSmith Posted January 14, 2006 Report Share Posted January 14, 2006 Re: First blood or whoever finishes it off? [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] I don't know the state rules but ethics tell me that the first fatal shot on the deer would be the one to tag it. If someone shoots a deer in the leg and it runs out in front of me and I shoot the deer in the vitals I will be taking the deer home with me!! [/ QUOTE ]DITTO! The first leathal shot [/ QUOTE ] I'm with you guys...Kill It = Keep It!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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