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what if you came across some endangered, protected species that was suffering and help was an hour away.....kill it or wait for the proper people to show up??

yeah, I think it may have been a bit crazier in the 80's......I can think of a few incidents down on Long Island.......one in particular, they attempted to have a deer hunt of Fire Island that they shut down after a day or two because of the anti's.

and then what happened??

couple hundred??? use to go through a dozen aluminum a year easily back in the day......

happened to me once.....sat in the cold rainy weather for about and hour, opportunity came and when I went to draw it was like everything was frozen, just like you said....think I pulled every muscle in my neck and back by the time I finally got it back....and was probably pulling more weight then I needed at the time.

this one took it full on I'm assuming...four broken legs.

did you try calling and there was no answer? what I did in that same situation, was called the local PD and they came and shot her...I took her home, I'll never do that again because the amount of usable meat wasn't worth the trouble of bringing her home and then getting rid of the other 90% that was garbage.......if there would have been no answer I would have stuck her with an arrow and left her on the side of the road. I'm not driving around with an untagged deer no matter what.

that's pretty much what I thought too....just didn't feel like digging it up. I think if you pour anything on the ground that causes deer to feed on it, I think they even eat the dirt in spots where people pour that mineral crap.....then you may have a problem.

yeah, I don't think many LEO's give a crap if someone wants to scoop up a road killed animal.....it may vary from region to region as to who has the tags for those types of situations.

I think it's more along the lines of if they have "probable cause to believe a crime was committed"..........

a deer runs just over the property line and is lying there dead for all to see.....ECO responds to help sort it out, landowners says he won't allow the hunter access to retrieve, but he would like a tag for it......hopefully the ECO would tell him to pound salt and enjoy the stench of the rotting carcass, I'm fairly confident those tags are issued solely at the discretion of the responding Officer......

I've taken two deer that were not killed by me...first was a nice buck that I found just off the roadway, called DEC and they said take it and we'll send someone to your house when they get a chance, they came and tagged it with pretty much no questions or investigation.......second was a doe I came upon in the middle of the road with broken legs, but still very much alive....I called the local PD and the Officer came and shot it and helped me load it up, I called DEC and I brought it to a check station where he met me and tagged it, once again not much of an investigation. I'm almost 100% certain that the only ones who can issue a tag for a roadkill or something of that nature are ECO's or NYS Troopers.

interesting......I have no idea if they have tags to issue for possessing a deer that was shot by one and found by another. I was thinking more of a confrontational situation where you have someone making an accusation of some type of criminal activity that would cause them to enter private property to investigate further......I think someone mentioned that if the landowner said nobody's coming on my land for any reason, then that was that, I was merely saying that if there is more to the story, then that statement is not always correct.

yup, and be sure to give them other business, don't just stop in when you need work done on stuff you bought somewhere else.........I've never felt comfortable doing that, I'll buy from the local shop even if it costs more...I've had plenty of small things done for free because I buy other stuff from them.

it's a shame you don't have any carpentry skills.............just kidding , nice work.

man I hate when people get together and have fun......

exactly what I was thinking.........

don't think that's the first time that has happened either...

http://freakoutnation.com/2015/10/indiana-hunter-shot-by-dog-named-trigger/

http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/6399.html

that's almost exactly how my recipe looks.....I just add a few fresh diced jalepenos into the mix for some added kick.

I was also a "hunter" on a permit that was issued to the owner of a big estate that was issued his because the deer destroyed thousands of $$ in landscaping......I always took everyone I shot and ate them, donated one or two to a wildlife rehab center, but I consider that a good use of them as well.

as far as ECO's seeming to have "stronger" (for lack of a better word) powers then your regular LEO's, I believe it's because of the "exigent circumstances" that they are faced with in a lot of the violations they deal with.......

the only time something would change is if they believed that there was some type of criminal activity to go along with that dead deer.....for instance, if the guy who shot the deer also observed the landowner drive up with an atv load it up and drive off, that may play out a little different, maybe......but, if the deer is laying there dead for all to see and the landowner says to all involved that it's gonna lay there and rot, then chances are that's what's going to happen.