Leaning across the hood could be described as "shooting from a vehicle".
All I'm saying is that I know of a case very recently in ND where a deer was shot at around sunrise and the truck drove off. The guy was driving a work truck at the time and WAS NOT WEARING ORANGE.
The deer showed immediate signs of being hit - so why did the guy drive off? The guy then drove back 10 minutes later - looked again while the deer stood there with that "I'm hurting" look - then the guy drove away.
An observer contacted the game warden who was given enough description/details to find the offender. When faced with the details during the interview later that afternoon, the guy who shot the deer said he didn't think he had hit it. Warden made him tag it. The observer had located the dead deer and directed the warden to it earlier that afternoon so the warden had the deer with him.
So bottom line is if you are a deer killing psycho whackjob (or just plain retarded/lazy) but you have a tag in hand, you can shoot deer and just drive off making no effort to retrieve.
If you ever get caught all it costs you is that you have to burn your tag. Even if they find the dead deer and an observer caught you dead to rights.
True story. Nauseating.
All I'm saying is that I know of a case very recently in ND where a deer was shot at around sunrise and the truck drove off. The guy was driving a work truck at the time and WAS NOT WEARING ORANGE.
The deer showed immediate signs of being hit - so why did the guy drive off? The guy then drove back 10 minutes later - looked again while the deer stood there with that "I'm hurting" look - then the guy drove away.
An observer contacted the game warden who was given enough description/details to find the offender. When faced with the details during the interview later that afternoon, the guy who shot the deer said he didn't think he had hit it. Warden made him tag it. The observer had located the dead deer and directed the warden to it earlier that afternoon so the warden had the deer with him.
So bottom line is if you are a deer killing psycho whackjob (or just plain retarded/lazy) but you have a tag in hand, you can shoot deer and just drive off making no effort to retrieve.
If you ever get caught all it costs you is that you have to burn your tag. Even if they find the dead deer and an observer caught you dead to rights.
True story. Nauseating.