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Do we REALLY view Poaching as a "crime"?
#51
RE: Do we REALLY view Poaching as a "crime"?
Duke I apologize. I really do.
Like I told PT in a PM....I'm just a little amazed at how we (as a hunting community) seemingly give a "pass" to poaching much of the time.
Like I told him, also.....I need to just accept this and move on.
I won't mention it again.
Like I told PT in a PM....I'm just a little amazed at how we (as a hunting community) seemingly give a "pass" to poaching much of the time.
Like I told him, also.....I need to just accept this and move on.
I won't mention it again.
#55
RE: Do we REALLY view Poaching as a "crime"?
OK.....OTHER THAN poaching to feed one's family....are there any other situations you might give a free pass to?
#57
RE: Do we REALLY view Poaching as a "crime"?
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
Duke I apologize. I really do.
Like I told PT in a PM....I'm just a little amazed at how we (as a hunting community) seemingly give a "pass" to poaching much of the time.
Like I told him, also.....I need to just accept this and move on.
I won't mention it again.
Duke I apologize. I really do.
Like I told PT in a PM....I'm just a little amazed at how we (as a hunting community) seemingly give a "pass" to poaching much of the time.
Like I told him, also.....I need to just accept this and move on.
I won't mention it again.
Take the situation you mentioned about the guy killing 9 bucks, say you call and say "I know this guy who I think has killed more bucks than he has tags for." Do you think they will swoop down from helicopters and raid his home? Not likely, more likely is they will try to send someone to investigate or patrol the "suspects" area or something along those lines if they doanything. Most DNR's are like every other law enforcement agency, undermanned.
I guess I just don't see anything surprising about not being the "Guardian Angels" of the deer woods because why would the woods be more important than anywhere else. It's Friday night go ride around the closest bar areain your city between 11:00 p.m and 2:00 a.m. therewill bepeople DUI all over the place (among other things), why not follow them around, call it in? Know anybodythat smokes some weed? Do you callit in? I rarelyworry about enforcing any other laws, why are game laws different?
#58
RE: Do we REALLY view Poaching as a "crime"?
I get tired of hearing the "poaching to feed their family" bull, been waiting for someone to throw the flag on that one, but I guess it isn't politically correct. For every poacher you can hit with that stick, I can show you a hundred that make more money than I do, or have ego's bigger than their brain capacities. From what I have seen, the very worst ones are the doctors/lawyers who think they are above the law. What is worse than that is the fact that often, they are. One of my best friends is a game warden, and the stories he can tell you would blow your mind.
Don't get me wrong, I help people out with legally shot and legally transferred game quite often. But the folks that I know that REALLY need the help don't blow $80 in gas to go try and shoot a buck. Maybe different traditions for different parts of the country, but that is the reality of my world.
Don't get me wrong, I help people out with legally shot and legally transferred game quite often. But the folks that I know that REALLY need the help don't blow $80 in gas to go try and shoot a buck. Maybe different traditions for different parts of the country, but that is the reality of my world.
#59
RE: Do we REALLY view Poaching as a "crime"?
I rarely worry about enforcing any other laws, why are game laws different?
#60
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: York,Pa
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RE: Do we REALLY view Poaching as a "crime"?
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
A recent post on my "Would you turn him in" thread had a passage we've all heard before.
"If you're gonnado the crime.....You gotta do the time"
Do we "really"view poaching as a "Crime"? or....is it something "less"?
A recent post on my "Would you turn him in" thread had a passage we've all heard before.
"If you're gonnado the crime.....You gotta do the time"
Do we "really"view poaching as a "Crime"? or....is it something "less"?