If they hit it, yes. Would suck but I see that as their right to first recovery....granted I would want to be there and tag along though. (or I'd say I'll look and get back to you....darn nothing)
Unless you have a very good reason not to, you're just an *******. The doe I shot this year crossed the fence. That morning in the dark, I saw 2 hunters going in. These people just bought the property. I got back in the stand, had a sandwich and waited. Half hour later, here they come. A young married couple, climbers on their backs, bows in hand. I introduced myself, we talked for a bit and I explained what happened. Without hesitation, they both said "absolutely, come on over". The doe was dead 40 yards away. The guy even insisted on helping me drag her to the field, thank god because she was huge. I felt better knowing that property sold to good people and real hunters!
If you say your a perfect shot every shot your a liar! The first buck I ever stuck an arrow in bolted onto another property and they wouldn't let me recover it. Because t was "their property". So thanks to them a deer died for no reason and I still don't have a first buck. It's just land not gold. If you respect the animal and the sport you let someone find their deer. And true hunter will agree with me. Mike4christ
I hunt 40 acres. I would be very hypocritical if I didn't allow other hunters to track on my property because I know I've had deer die on the neighbors and I know I'll have them do the same thing in the future. Luckily I have a good relationship with my neighboring landowners and there isn't an issue. I did have a young man and his father appear out of my timber one time as we were getting home. They had shot a small buck from the neighbors property and had tracked him all across my property. They said they had went to the door, but nobody was home so they went ahead and tracked the deer. They were not able to recover it and I wasn't real happy because they had not went to the door, or there would have been tracks in the snow. Either way, I let them know to call me next time and gave them my number.
We have a situation on family land where I hunt that the neighbors to the North have the same idea we do on letting deer grow and not shooting young bucks unless it's kids or someones first deer so we have no problem with letting theme come over if they shoot something. The neighbor to the south is a rich developer guy who let's his buddies come over and drink and hunt and whatever else with a brown it's down mentality. Now, I don't care for them obviously but if they shot a deer and it came across on our property I would let them recover it even though I doubt they would let us do the same. It's just the right thing to do if you are a hunter because I'm sure we have all made bad shots before. I would probably be pissed when I let them come over to look but I would still do it.....I know this because I have once before when they gunshot a fawn and I finished it off for them.
I manage a ranch even tho I can go anywhere I want to I give neighbors and other manager a call just to let them know we have something down. Nice thing being that way they all call me the same way I know the lay of the land so I or some one else that is in the hunting party helps them locate game and we won't mess with someone else if still hunting. We love seeing someone else's kill as if was ours. We try our best to manage the deer herd and getting neighbors to fit in what we trying to do is cool but some are meat hunters and some have different ideas for a trophy. But we will go and retrieve there game if the call or we give them the riot act so they get on same page of knowing were property lines are.
I'm either getting my deer or a whooped ***. Either way I'm good Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
I sense some entitlement attitude in some of these posts. If I shoot an animal and it doesn't die on my property, no one to blame but myself.
So every deer you've ever shot has been a perfect shot and it died right there on the spot? Are you shooting the Louisiana Purchase broadheads?
What a bunch of egotistical convoluted nonsense. Entitlement? Hope how about A sense of decency and neighborly good will. Treating people the way you'd want to be treated is a sense of entitlement?
[FONT=Roboto, arial, sans-serif]Sure....your neighbor wants to be left alone. He wants you to enjoy yourself on your property. That's exactly how he would like to be treated also. You make the assumption that I'm advocating denying permission. You assume too much and with a ******bag attitude. Reminds me of Dusty Rhode's attitude before our 1981 match...that ended with a Figure Four Leg Lock and a new gold belt around my waist WOOOOOO!!!![/FONT]
I always remember being taught to ask for permission to go on someone else's property. It has gotten worse as years gone by everyone that talks about it is afraid to be sued. That or it has been leased with crazy money from out of town and they think every deer the got on camera is theirs lol they are wild I tell them. Better put up hi fence. Stuff happens poor shots are made and game should be recovered help is always welcome but I was raised a little different
ok. i'm gonna put things into a little better perspective. i've got 33 acres. i ONLY hunt the front 1/2 the back half is their sanctuary and i very seldom go their other than to shed hunt or trail a deer I'VE hit. that very sactuary is the reason i have excellent hunting. i routinly pass on 30+ bucks a year. yeah.......30 bucks the few times i've had to trail a deer into the imaginary line i call "no mans land", it changes the WHOLE DYNAMICS of how the deer react on my land for at least a good week. i spend countless hours and lots of $$ maintaining the timber/foodplots/treestands ect EVERY YEAR. so some one shoots a deer, makes it into the sactuary and you expect me to allow anyone i don't know to go in and ruin EVERYTHING i just spent spring/summer and lots of hard work and $ to ruin it for ME!!. it drives me nuts having to go in there!!!!. nother thing, if most people would QUIT SITTING RIGHT ON the property lines and give themselves a bit of "wiggle room", there would be a whole lot less tenstion!!! that being said, i very much like the guy that hunts the property next too mine. GREAT GUY, and YES, he does have free reighn to trail any deer he shoots as long as he call me first. i'd go ape-**** if i went in to hunt and seen human tracks without knowing.
I shot a doe once that died like 30 yards into the neighboring property. I just went and got it. But if I had to actually track one I would have asked. Also I would let someone look on the property I hunt if they asked (although it's not really up to me)
I had this situation happen to me this year, where I was the one asking for permission. Made a bad shot on a doe and tracked her for a 1/4 mile before I jumped her the night of the shot. The next morning I tracked her to the property line and from there I called the land owner and he gave me permission to get my deer. We have been neighbors for some 20 years and that was really the first time that I talked to him and was very thankful that he allowed me to retrieve my deer. After we got the deer cut up, my wife made some of her signature TL salsbury steaks and I took a good portion to him and he was very thankful. He also returned the container with some of his wifes best cookies. We stood around and talked for an hour or so and I feel as we have a great relationship from it. We have another neighbor that has always been a little stand offish but if they were to call me and ask to retrieve a deer I would grant them permission if I could go with them. I guess what I have learned from my experience this years is that if you were to allow the neighbor to retrieve a deer and spend the time to actually have a conversation with them, there could very well be a great relationship for years to come. I would almost prefer that they had one come onto my land and ask for permission because I think they would be way more receptive as far as coming up with an agreement for the future or possible the same type of management style.
Still that way in ND. Permission isn't needed to recover an animal from neighboring properties whether posted or not. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
