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    Best rifle options youth hunters

    What hunting rifle would you all recommend for a youth hunter or a very small-framed person? I have 5 boys, and they are counting the days until they can begin hunting with me as well. My wife also would like to hunt with me, but she’s very tiny. My Howa .308 is too heavy and large for them...
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    Wounded animal meat safety #2

    Lots of hunters feel that it is humane to put down an injured animal if you see it. This is taught from the very beginning in hunter’s education classes. I’m not required to anything about this deer, but I am interested in doing what is humane. The tension on this is my question about meat...
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    Wounded animal meat safety #2

    I came here with a simple question about meat safety. I also shared about my internal debate about whether the most ethical approach, if I see this animal again, would be to put it out of its misery or let it try to survive. I'm grateful for the wonderful input that many people on this forum...
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    Wounded animal meat safety #2

    Thank you again for your comments. I appreciate your thorough analysis and tips. I've already had one badly infected animal this year, so my wife is quite nervous about losing meat again. On my side, we've been building a house this year, so my hunting time has been drastically limited and I'd...
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    Wounded animal meat safety #2

    There are plenty of reasons, even in a theoretical situation, that this may not be the thing to do. Just off the top of my head, valid reasons in a theoretical situation would be: - It is private property. A landowner may be willing to let someone retrieve an animal that ran across the property...
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    Wounded animal meat safety #2

    What did you do with the infected animal? Discard everything or just some parts?
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    Wounded animal meat safety #2

    Thanks so much for asking the time to share your perspective and supporting information. I appreciate it!
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    Wounded animal meat safety #2

    Hey everyone, I’m back with a question on meat safety on a wounded animal. My neighbor shot a buck with his bow, and it hit high. He asked for permission to track it on our property, and he said he was not able to recover it. One week later, I saw the buck is alive and appears to be showing...
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    Meat safety on wounded animal

    I officially have a replacement tag in my hands. I spoke with our area wildlife biologist here in NW Montana, and he was extremely understanding and helpful. He asked me to the FWP headquarters with the meat, head, hide (whatever I had in my possession) to surrender in exchange for a new tag. I...
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    Meat safety on wounded animal

    That must’ve been heartbreaking. This was just a doe on an easy hunt and I’m already so frustrated. I cannot imagine the disappointment on a big hunt like that.
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    Meat safety on wounded animal

    I definitely thought about that. Unfortunately, unless it’s on private property, I believe this is now illegal here in Montana where I live. (Not trying to start an argument, just trying to help us all avoid trouble.) For sure, the head on spinal column must be left at the kill site or taken to...
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    Meat safety on wounded animal

    I think sometimes it’s harder to give up your first “success” in hunting. When I was younger, my first duck success was also with Mergansers, and I was determined to make a feast out of them. That experience taught me not to shoot any of those again unless I’m starving. Haha.
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    Meat safety on wounded animal

    Haha, I love the Little House on the Prairie reference. My kids are reading the books and started watching the old TV series. We just moved into an old log cabin in the mountains this year, and my kids are just ecstatic that “it’s just like Laura Ingalls.”
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    Meat safety on wounded animal

    Thanks so much for your input. I hunt for meat (family of 5 kids), so I really hate to waste anything. But your comment helped me remember that wasting a game animal is not as bad as seeing my family infected with something. I was able to talk to one of our wildlife biologists here in...
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    Meat safety on wounded animal

    Hey everyone, I have a meat safety question. I got a small doe tonight with my B tag. When I got up to it, I found that the deer had previously been attacked, probably by a coyote. The entire butt area was mutilated, brown, dried up meat (oozing in spots) and it was pretty stinky. I would...
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