Need Help! Retreiving deer off of someone elses property...

[Katy]

As a landowner of a large pasture who it seems everyone thinks they should be allowed access to, I'll give you a landowner's perspective. Your neighbor may not be grouchy...or he may not have wanted the deer for himself as Steve suggested. He may just be very tired of dealing with hunters in general as we are.

 

[The Chicken People]

Thats no reason to let a deer go to waste when it could feed a family..at least the family aint knocking on your door asking for a hand out they are just good folks trying to do right by not wasting food! I too am sick of poachers but this man is honestly looking to retrieve a deer that was shot on his property and didnt fall on it!

 

[redhen]

Call your local police and ask them the law...you didnt shoot it on their property..so i think that you have some say in this whole thing...
the police may even just go get the deer for you or go talk to the neighbor..

 

[Portia]

My husband and all the neighbors have agreed that deer retrieval is acceptable, important b/c there is over 100 acres of contiguous woods that is split among a dozen owners.
However, if your circumstance the Game commissioner is there for exactly for such issues. With his/her permission you are allowed to go retrieve and if there is still a problem he/she will come with you or send someone out to help with the retrieval and calming of the neighbor.

 

[Katy]

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I'm sure the coyotes won't let it go to waste. We have a neighbor who calls and asks permission for just this kind of thing.....before he even goes out. There are others who lease the neighboring pasture for hunting who set their stands up right across the fence line......aimed into our pasture...those can forget getting permission.

 

[Sunny Side Up]

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I would hope that would be the case. Tresspassing is tresspassing & there shouldn't be exceptions unless you have some law enforcement official at your side with a warrant. Your neighbor may have had some bad experiences in his past while allowing others onto his property and now he's both reluctant & grouchy too. I don't know what your history has been with this man and if you've already tried to be neighborly. But if you do get your deer back perhaps it would help to offer him some of the meat as a gesture of gratitude.

 

[FarmerChick]

Nature won't let it go to waste so that is always good.

Being a long time now I wonder if you can still track it to where it might have fallen?


Being a landowner I have trouble with ATV riders in my fields, horse riders all over and opening gates and never closing them, young adults spinning circles in my fields, etc.

but when it comes to hunting, if an animal is tracked onto my property, yes go retrieve it. we hunters have to stick together...lol....so I allow retrieval, not hunting unless you have permission. A few of Tony's friends have permission..........but one day we checked the bottoms and someone put up a deer stand and blind. Who? I don't know...we never found out. We took it all down. It was never put back up or asked about either.


BUT you must call your local game warden. Get the facts. Do it right. You can't guess.

 

[Bettacreek]

Here, if something like this happens, simply call the DCNR and have them help you. The landowner cannot actually refuse your retrieval with a warden along, so long as you were hunting lawfully.

 

[The Chicken People]

We had to track an eight point taken by bow last year! My hubby taught himself to hunt in three months and got it but it was two or three hours later when we traced back the blood trail and found it! I know that nature wont let it go to waste but I would rather humans eat what they kill than the coyotes!

 

[cassie]

How does your husband KNOW that is not the law any more. Has he checked? Or is this something someone told him or he heard somewhere? According to tort law it is not unlawful to go on another's land to retrieve your personal property. I don't know if a shot deer is classified as personal property or not. Call the warden.