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timberjack86

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My buddy said something woke him up last night, he assumed it was thunder. Went back to sleep and found a gut pile in his front yard this morning and blood in the road where someone loaded a dead deer in their vehicle last night. TWRA has been notified. Figured someone got em a velvet buck out of his yard last night. This is in Grundy county. Crazy what people will do just to kill a deer!! Probably a grip and grin photo opp this morning.
 
Maybe they tagged it in this morning. I wouldn't think that many deer was killed and tagged today. Maybe something to look into.
 
Mcboom said:
Maybe they tagged it in this morning. I wouldn't think that many deer was killed and tagged today. Maybe something to look into.
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That's what I was thinking. If they tag it they're dumb because it might be the only one in the county that day or even for the entire velvet season for that county.

However, given the deer was gutted, it quite possibly could have been hit by a car and salvaged. Poachers who night hunt aren't likely to gut a deer before loading it.
 
Ski said:
That's what I was thinking. If they tag it they're dumb because it might be the only one in the county that day or even for the entire velvet season for that county.

However, given the deer was gutted, it quite possibly could have been hit by a car and salvaged. Poachers who night hunt aren't likely to gut a deer before loading it.
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Only a few deer are killed per county in the velvet season?
 
XCR-2 said:
Probably used thermals. 🕵🏻‍♂️
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quiet tim and eric GIF
 
Ski said:
That's what I was thinking. If they tag it they're dumb because it might be the only one in the county that day or even for the entire velvet season for that county.

However, given the deer was gutted, it quite possibly could have been hit by a car and salvaged. Poachers who night hunt aren't likely to gut a deer before loading it.
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Agreed! My observations on poaching are everytime I have seen a poached deer its had two things in common: 1. headless buck 2. in or around a field were deer consistently congregate. Never seen a deer shot at night that was gutted and hauled away
 
In my dealings with poachers, they don't take the time to gut them. They shoot, grab, and go.
I did make a case on a buck that was shot in July. It had its head cut off. In September caught a spot lighter with a deer in the same area. He had a picture on his phone of him holding a deer head in July. The dates matched.
 
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Biggun4214 said:
In my dealings with poachers, they don't take the time to gut them. They shoot, grab, and go.
I did make a case on a buck that was shot in July. It had its head cut off. In September caught a spot lighter with a deer in the same area. He had a picture on his phone of him holding a deer head in July. The dates matched.
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Hopefully he was sufficiently prosecuted. Those guys can do a lot of damage. I once saw the inside of a barn that was being used to dry skull plates from poached deer. I was floored by how many big bucks they had killed. Sickening.

As for the deer in question I'd guess it was hit by a vehicle and incapacitated but alive, finished with gunshot, then salvaged. Somebody probably didn't even bother calling it in, just took it home and butchered it. Could very well have been a doe.
 
I've never really had a problem with somebody killing a deer because they were hungry but, just for killing it because you don't think you can kill one legally. Well, that bothers me,
 

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