Big Flats: I found your deer

[NYHuntFish]

If you're missing a deer you shot in Big Flats, 3 miles from the airport, write me back. There's a buck laying by the road, alive, but won't move but I can't see a gun shot. So I'm guessing it's shot but I just can't see it.

Now also I don't how to handle this. Can someone tell me if I wait X-hours then take it? I'm not sure the right thing to do here. I figure let's see if they get it by noon tomorrow.

[growalot]

Did you ever consider it had been stuck by a car?

You call the cops and they come and put it out of it's misery..then ask for a recovery tag...

Edited November 25, 2017 by growalot

[NYHuntFish]

No I didn't but that is possible. But I saw no signs in the street of an accident. And the deer is "laying" like it's laying in a field. Doesn't look injured but I can sit in the car right next to it and it won't move.

[growalot]

I watched  a deer get hit and flip through the air over two cars like a piece of cardboard...when I got to it , I and another driver pulled over...the Deer was as you described..  When we approached it, it popped up and ran away..the van that hit it never stopped and the deer landed far from the strike...and there was no blood nor hair.

[growalot]

Shock and or legs could be broken..or a spinal injury.. liver so loss of blood to a slow bleed could have it immobile....

[NYHuntFish]

Ok I'm following the advice to call the cops. I'd shoot it myself but this is 2017 and logic is no longer legal for some reason so let's do that. I'll drive out and if it's still there I'll call the cops. Thanks everyone!

 

[NYHuntFish]

Actually, I meant Thanks Growalot! Sorry, it's late. I've been up since 4.

[NYHuntFish]

End to this story: I went out about 2 hours later and it was gone. So who knows. I know when "something is up," and......something was up.