Long Island NY Monster Whitetail

[nyantler]

That is my posiition on finding a kill 6 days later.. unless I spent all those six days strictly looking for that buck and not continuing to hunt. It's what I would do personally.. not suggesting anyone else has to live by that rule.. I guess it depends on how you feel after you find the buck...six days after the fact for me would be a lack luster feeling...that wouldn't take away from the buck still being a great buck.. I just wouldn't consider it a great kill on my part especially if I or someone else came upon it six days later by accident while hunting...and I don't know if thats what happened here... so I am not passing judgement just telling my feelings if it happened to me.. by the way it is a magnificent buck.. is that your buck?

[wztirem]

Just for me, I can't see doing anything but making knife handles if that on a buck I didn't find while the meat is still good. Looking at any kind of mount would just remind me of not getting it done - whatever the reason. I sure wouldn't score it, but would burn the take. Again, just for me.

But I would enter the buck in the Big Buck club as found dead just to make sure the antlers were recorded for future hunters to see.. I would mount the deer for the deers sake not as a personal harvested trophy...

Joe, what exactly is the reasoning behind that statement above?

Yes, please explain that remark Joe.

I guess some people believe that a statute of limitations exists between shooting a deer and recovering it to validate it.

In any event "good job" pistolp71! :-\

[nyantler]

I am not saying that it isn't a great buck.. or that it isn't great that it was found... I was expressing a personal feeling about if it had happened to me... again.. the difference for me would be whether I spent 6 days actively looking for the buck without hunting... or whether I was hunting those six days and happened on the buck.

There is a difference in my eyes... as soon as you pick up your bow and continue to hunt for another buck you have just resigned yourself to the fact that you lost that buck.. meaning if I found the buck while hunting or someone else found it while I was hunting it would be a found buck that was given up on. If I didn't hunt and continued looking for the buck everyday for six days.. I would consider that a harvested buck because I did not resign to the fact that the buck was lost and continued to pursue it until found... regardless of the shape the deer was in when I found it... it's about the action taken after that in my opinion matters...

[nyantler]

Lastly I would have the buck scored and entered in the NYSBBC .. its still a great example of a record book NYS buck.. it wasn't taken illegally and should be available for furure generation of big buck lovers like myself to admire.

[pistolp71]

Joe, I did not hunt a single minute after releasing the arrow on that buck. The only thing I had on my mind was to find that deer. I lost sleep every night. And searched like a man posessed. I found that buck, me, nobody else. I scouted that buck. Hunted hard and smart. Put an arrow through him and recovered him. To say that I should enter him as "found dead" is BS. And to NOT mount him as a personal harvested trophy? He WAS a personal harvested trophy. I do consider it a great kill. After what I went through trying to recover him, even more!

[nyantler]

read my past couple posts.. thats a harvested buck... showing that kind of perseverance is what makes that a real trophy... i commend you for your effort ... I meant no disrespect... I went back and read you posts from earlier... I was just giving my personal opinion on finding a buck 6 days later if I wasn't actively looking for it... I see that wasn't the case with you.. congratulations on a real trophy and better yet a terrific hunting story.

[pistolp71]

Thanks Joe. PM sent.

[SteveB]

Question for everyone- does a doe hit bad

get looked for for 6 days? If not then how long?

[nyantler]

good question .. and my honest answer would be no. But I might spend a month looking for the buck that Pete shot...

[Geno C]

Sad but the reality of that question is i think a doe would get swept under the carpet in that situation. Not by some but prob most... i think if most guys shot a deer sporting head gear like this they would put ALOT into the recovery of that animal. Well, atleast thats what i would think. i could be wrong...

[Geno C]

I would to that there won't be a lot of blood loss from a gut shot, its more that they die from the toxins that are released into the blood stream. More simply put, they get sick and die which is why it takes time.

And Geno, I wouldn't have believed that a liver hit could do that other than I did it a couple of years ago. The deer made it 30 yards and fell over dead and we inspected the lungs at home and never found any cuts in them. We guessed that I had hit the blood supply to the liver and that was what caused the rapid death. I have hit the liver on 3 including this years doe, I hate the feeling of doing that, as soon as the arrow got there I knew on all three occasions it was bad but I also knew it was a dead deer.

thats interesting, i guess there is different out comes meassured by the degree of the liver hit?

[TH41]

I hope you'll post the mount when it's done.

[pistolp71]

Sure, I will. I need a cape though because the hair was falling out. I may wait till next year and use the cape from a buck I shoot next year. Unless I get a hold of a cape I like.

[pistolp71]

OK, here's the mount. I'm real happy with it. Eastern Taxidermy mounted it and I did the wall habitat myself.

[ny hunter]

Came out great.Enjoy.

[Geno C]

Pete that thing is a brute!! where did you get the cape??

[pistolp71]

Thanks. Eastern had a cape that was close to his so I decided to use them. He also had it done for me in 3 weeks, which was awesome.

[ny hunter]

What you did with habitat looks awesome.I think it all came out great.

[MuzzyLoader]

What a Beautiful Mount!  Hell-of-a-buck!!!!!!

[nyantler]

Absolutely beautiful mount Pete... Great Buck

[hunter49]

  Great looking deer & mount, nice rack!!

[catskillkid]

Great buck, congrats!

[fasteddie]

Pistolp71 --- That is an awesome mount !

[Geno C]

im glad it all worked out for you, it came out great! Now lets get out to the 3d range lol.

[mbucks27]

Awesome buck and mount.  Congrats!!!!

John