I was doing a little farming on hard scrabble little place where my hunting
cabin is located. From years of helping with hay and doing minor repairs
for the 2 neighboring farms, I ended up with exclusive rights on over 500
acres. About time sweet corn was ripe I began seeing monster 12 pt buck.
I watched him all that fall. Had him figured out to the max. Neighbor pulled
me a tree top up into corner of hay field for a blind. Opening morning I was
waiting 50 yds from his entrance point. Then about a hour after day light
he suddenly appeared at 150 yds, to far for Shotgun slug. Some thing spooked it and it ran over top of ridge. Before I made my way to top of ridge,
Bam,herd a shot. This was all posted ground., I was hotter than a $3 pistol.
There was a van parked on old closed township road. Deer was laying in field
20yds from van. I was getting all puffed up as I walked up to van. On back
of van was Disabled Vet plate. The old guy sitting in van was ecstatic over
The deer. What could I do? Got tractor, lifted massive buck up and gutted it for him, loaded in his van, helped him into drivers seat, helped him get turned
around in narrow road and waved good- by. Ended up with 125 lb doe that
season.

Poaching is poaching. I suggest readers of this thread make popcorn.

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A disabled vet license tag doesn't make poaching right. You are better than me, as I would have had the game warden come out.

I will not even attempt to answer the above posts. If you can't
cut a disabled Vet some slack, there is no helping you.
VN vet, not disabled.

Ground Hog Day.

So many things wrong on so many levels

Why don't we just all take a pass on this one? It's already been done.

Sometimes doing the right thing can sting a bit, I commend you for your thoughtfulness.

As for the claims on poaching, closed Township Road implies this was a Public Right of Way. So, it was quite likely perfectly legal for that disabled Vet to take this deer in this location and likely it was the only hunting spot he could access easily. The simple fact is that sometimes a deer will wander in a direction where other hunters have every right to take that deer even if you've been watching it since it was a fawn.

Thought it seemed familiar.

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What if he molested your daughter and stole your car? Crime is crime.

Sorry you missed out on that buck but at least a disabled vet did take him. Did he take it legally in your jurisdiction as I know some disabled can hunt from a vehicle in some places? My disabled cousin used to be able to do that here in Michigan.
I too watched a buck for a few years go from a six point to a thirteen point I had a beautiful picture of at sunset with my deer cam. I'm pretty sure it was the same deer as he hit the same scrapes on my property every year but I was never able to get a shot on him until he came out of the woods at 40 yards and I took a shot at him with my bow. I had a massive blood trail but as it was getting dark waited until next morning to track him with my buddy. From the evidence it appeared I hit him high on one lung and exited low on the other from my ladder stand.
He was a tough old buck as although he'd bled out a lot it must have slowed as we go only small amounts further on and must have tracked him a good half mile. Last we found of sign was onto a neighbor's property where he refused to let me track and retrieve him. I did let it be known far an wide that I shot that deer so the guy didn't get bragging rights at least.