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When Is It Your Deer?

Category: Government & Organizations
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Publish Date: 2017-12-07 09:00:00
Description: Another firearms deer season is in the books. Did you get your deer? In this episode of Wildlife Matters, the Masked Biologist takes a look at when a deer really becomes yours. Well, did you get your deer? You may have gotten a deer, but whose was it really, and when did it actually become yours ? I know a guy who owns a large amount of land in NW Wisconsin, and he manages the hunting access. He has ring binders with photos of deer you are allowed to shoot, and deer you are not allowed to shoot. When you are in his blind, you have to compare any buck you see to the photos, and make your decision to shoot based on the instructions he provides. If you shoot the wrong deer, you have to pay him a fine. This individual also has a guide license, and customers pay him for hunting access to his land. There are no fences around his land, so whose deer are they? Are they his? If so, when do they become his deer—when they enter his property? To answer those questions, it might be interesting to
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