What do you mean it’s not dead yet?

carptom1

carptom1

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Witnessed a comical incident at the motel last evening in Mitchell South Dakota. I was driving down from North Dakota and stopped there for the evening about 8 or so. I had Raven up on the tailgate to brush her out and feed her and noticed a young group of hunters that were unloading their truck after hunting. One of them rolled back the cover and out jumped a fairly lively rooster. He immediately jumped off but tried to hide behind the tire underneath their truck. After a mad scramble and a little belly crawling they managed to get him dispatched. I calmly asked them if they were live trapping birds. That’s a new one for me.
 
I just cant stand people that stuff wounded birds in their vest,seems a little sick and demented to want to feel it kicking around. Is it really that hard or take that long to make sure its dispatched?
 
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Perhaps in the chaos of birds flushing, etc, things happen in a quick, in deliberate fashion? Not saying that it’s happened to me in 1000+ days of bird hunting. I agree, thoroughness is preferred…
 
That1uncle1776 said:
I just cant stand people that stuff wounded birds in their vest,seems a little sick and demented to want to feel it kicking around. Is it really that hard or take that long to make sure its dispatched?
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I don’t think that was the case. I think that they were road hunting late in the day and got a little lazy. They were pretty young and didn’t have a tremendous amount of experience. I doubt it happens again.
 
Back in the 90's when I was a Patrol Supervisor with the Devils Lake PD, myself and a NDHP trooper were dispatched to the Cenex at HW 2 & HW20 in reference to a 10-50 (vehicle accident ) car-deer. A pretty routine call as people who hit deer on HW 2 would drive into DL to report it. A very nice lady in her 50's had hit the deer several miles east of DL on HW20. When we asked if the deer was dead on the road, She advised it was injured so she put it in the trunk and brought it with to see if we could get it some help. Sure enough, she had somehow put the small-ish, injured but very much alive, and now panicking doe in her trunk. Long story short, we asked if she would stay at the Cenex while we took her car out of town to get the deer out. Suffice to say it we were both a deer hair covered, bloody, dinged up mess by the time we wrestled that deer out of the truck and killed it.
 
Did you make sure it was dead? This is UPHF! Jesus christ we had boomers dieing over a Goose comment but nothing over a dieing bird not being killed. Do I need "of all members" need to flag this
 
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