Illegal kill seen

Saw my first ever post AR "mistake" kill left to lay on Friday afternoon. Left work early to hit my afternoon stand and as any hunter does, I was "scanning" the likely deer spots as I was driving. Heading down 51 south just past Ridge Rd. in Jefferson Hills, I glance up on top of the little ledge to the left where I have seen guys hunting before and notice antlers and a deer laying there. This is directly across from Francesco's Restaurant for those that know the area. I turn around at the bottom of the hill and pull off at the Ridge Rd. off ramp on 51. I walk back with my camcorder and once I get there, I see that it's a very large 5 pt. laying dead. It is at least a 2.5 yr old with a nice 16" spread or so and decent mass but it only has 2 pts and a brow on its left side and a large spike with a small brow on the right side. If someone saw this quickly coming through thick brush, I could perhaps see mistaking it for a larger deer but still doesn't excuse it. It had a definite broadhead wound on its left side. I did not flip it over. I do have a little tape on my camcorder of it. Shame to see someone do something like that and just walk away from it. It looked to be a fresh kill from late Thursday or early Friday as the eyes looked real fresh, no stink, and there was still some rigor in its neck. I have seen a certain vehicle pulled off and hunting this area on many occassions. Just wondering if it was them that did this or not.

I certainly hope I am wromng but I really thinig there are going to be bucks shot that are protected ones under the new rules in the old 4 point arreas..

IMHO == they should have just made it 3 points to side state wide ... 3 on the main beam.. no brow tines is going to get some protected bucks shot plain and simple... and some are not going to want to do the right thing and report it as a mistake and they will just walk away..

BUMMER !!!!

I've seen 3 bucks left since AR came in. All in 2F

The shot was a good one.  Deer most likely died quickly.  In this area ( 20 yds from Rte. 51), the high visibility leads me to believe it was a mistake left to rot.  On my way home from work tonight it looked like there was another individual on the way over to check it out.  He was in work clothes and talking on a cell phone walking towards the area. 
 
I can describe the vehicle I have seen parked in this area on a regular basis but as for not driving that way and seeing it that AM, I am not going to speculate and throw out accusations.  Just reporting what I actualy saw.

Here is a picture of one hit by a car two weeks ago. 51 at century drive just after ridge road overpass.
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You don't shoot one (ends up bein illegal)or not and leave it lay thats pathetic , take it home green jeans catches ya your own dam fault

ORIGINAL: thunderpole

You don't shoot one (ends up bein illegal)or not and leave it lay thats pathetic , take it home green jeans catches ya your own dam fault

MR Green Jeans , LOL

Have came across more than 1 illegal kill every year since we had to comply with this stupidity. So figure how small of an area that I cover? Wonder just how many are left to rot yearly? I suppose there is a graph or chart that factors this in HUH...

Sadly I have come across a couple of spikes over the years that were obviously mistaken for doe 

+1 ===

but the mistake is what hurt

How true... I did not need any lectures or negative comments from the WCO (and did not get any) when he came to pick up the "mistake".

I had already beaten myself up enough over the mistake plus naturally the "better half" had some negative things to say about me making the mistake too ...

But all were proud that I did the right thing and not just leave it lay in the woods to rot... and the $25 was sort of a punishment in itself for a bad decision on when to pull the trigger...