Sunday Morning Hunting Dilemma

So you live in a state where Sunday hunting is not allowed. You connect on a deer but when you see your hit was a little back, you decide you should wait til morning before trailing. The problem is, tomorrow is Sunday and hunting is not allowed on Sunday in your state. You believe you will most certainly lose the deer if you take up the trail too soon. What do you do?

1. Take the risk of trailing immediately and hope you find your deer against all odds.
2. Wait til tomorrow morning and hope you don't get caught.
3. Avoid hunting on Saturday afternoons to avoid the possibility that you may ever be faced with this dilemma.
4. Forget about the deer. After all, it's Sunday and laws are more important than ethics.

With this dilemma, what would make sense for your lawmakers?

1. Allow Sunday hunting?
2. Close hunting on Saturday at noon for bowhunting except for tracking game?
3. Allow Sunday tracking.
4. Encourage people to just shoot deer on Saturday afternoon and leave them to rot to avoid breaking a rule?

 

Go look for the deer in regular clothing? And if you are approached by a game warden, explain the situation?

 

So in non-sunday states mean you cant be in the woods or just with no weapon,If the deer is dead then why would you need a weapon with you? I cant see getting a ticket for a retrieved game shot the day before or do they wait a day and give you a ticket for wasting meat?

always have had sundays open here so i dont understand it.

 

Call the DNR and explain your situation and go with their guidance. If their offices are closed try the poacher hotline.

Personally, I would just go recover the deer on Sunday and if I were to meet a NRP officer I would explain the situation to him. Show him where the shot was, the blood trail and the deer with an obvious day old wound.

 

I can't believe they won't allow you to track and tag a deer without a weapon. That makes no sense. What about in early season when it doesn't get dark till 7:30pm and technically you only would have till 11:59pm to recover your deer. That's not a lot of time if you are deep in the woods to find, tag, take pictures, gut, and drag your deer out of the woods.

To me it would be the same if you shoot a deer on the last day of the season right?

Certainly this isn't the intent of the law.

 

I have never had to deal with the issue of no sunday hunting, thank goodness, but it seems that the law would allow you to recover a deer that was shot the day before, if not, that makes it even more ridiculous.

 

I hunt in a state that does not allow Sunday hunting, yet the people at the federal land I hunt allow us to track and recover deer on Sundays. I have done it before without any issues.

 

I have been reading through the PA laws and havent found it yet... I agree with you all that that would be ridiculous. Sunday hunting is allowed in AL though I choose not to, however I would recover a deer if necessary. There is a poacher hotline in PA and I would think someone seen with a deer by an over exuberant citizen on Sunday is likely to get a visit from the GW. Then how do you prove it was taken on Saturday when you are hauling it out on Sunday. What a ridiculous law.

 

We can Sunday hunt in Minnesota, just can't go to the store and buy beer after you get home....

 

I'm telling you.... the TV Gurus have done a disservice to the hunting community. I don't know how many times I've seen a show and they say... "When in doubt...back out". Well holy crap folks... I watched the same video as them and have said so many times. "The deer is dead duffus. He's just around the corner". I have never left a deer in the woods over night. I have been out there with lights as late as 11 digging one out... but I never left one for the coyotes or to spoil Have I screwed any up? Yup....2. But they weren't hurt bad enough to die during the night I figure. Realizing I've shot 87 deer with the bow...2 plus another 3 that were hit wrong from the beginning isn't all that bad. I'd take my crap to the truck and then go look for my deer. If I have to come back the next day I only have a knife and walking stick. If a warden wants to hassle me... I'll pay the fine or plead in court. At any rate... no moral delima... I'm looking for the deer on Sunday.

 

That's too funny. If I see the deer drop and lay there after taking off on a head down death run... I'm getting down, grabbing horns and smiling for the camera.