hogdogs

NOPE!!! I go my ass out there and jump the tievin' punk while he is still here!!!
Pizza arrives faster than the cops any way! Lump him in the head and stand on his throat til the neighbor wakes up... We can do this all night...
Brent

HateCheese

Well put.

If a person trespasses on my hunting land and I can't find them (not likely) I damn sure would call it in. If I see them jump the fence to my neighbors land I'll do the same thing. If my neighbor calls in someone who hunts my land when I am not there I wouldn't call them a 'snitch', I'd call them a good neighbor. Then I'd buy them a beer.

Even though the water is a shared resource instead of private land, I still look at a violator as someone who is stealing from you and me.

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i would like to tell on noaa for giving gag grouper only to commercial and none to the recs.

coming to waters near you starting jan. 1

i would also like to tell on this fellow i saw shooting the kings deer in sherwood forest.

Richard J.

In Pa. it started because of different groups of people killing deer at night and shipping them to New York under loads of x-mas trees. They tried everything to find out who the groups were. Funny part is after the tip program started it was relatives that turned them in most of the time. They also broke up groups that were shooting bucks at night and selling them to out of state people for mounts or that where entered into big buck contests. You have to understand we had a very large deer population at the time. They would use 22s and keep the deer hanging in the barns until they would get a major shippment, usually 50 to 100 or more. Put them into huge trailers and cover with x-mas trees. Game commision originally found out about it thru New York State Police. They stopped tractor and trailer that had blood running out of it. In the 60s and 70s this was very common. They would sell them to select restaurants. Thriving business. like I said most groups where turned in by there own familys. No one could believe it was that common in the mountain areas of Pa. Now most people are turned in for road hunting.

RJ

hogdogs

I remember "R.A.P." (report all poaching) in Michigan around 1980... They would pay up to $1,000 to dime dropping snitches...

At that time we, as MANY, were literally destitute. My family ate nearly 100% poached venison. Dad would go out with someone else (often me) and shoot the smaller doe near the fence in the middle of the night. Sometimes the doe would be a "button" or "nubbin" buck. But never a spotted fawn.

If a relative or VERY CLOSE friend was in the same boat, my dad would make them take the same risk by being the "other person" in the car.

These same deer were eating the corn, soybean or sugar beet crops, costing the farmer money. My father always said, "The farmer may wake up but he won't know what woke him with one shot, it takes a second shot for him to know..."

My dad said, "Now we have a program that will pay the farmer more in reward than he loses in crop loss." we didn't stop but we were far more picky of the fields we spotlighted...

Yes it was officially poaching! But we didn't have the money to buy hot dogs, let alone a michigan hunting license that allowed one deer during a very short season...

Proud of it? Maybe a little as I was in a family of survivors who would rather eat than honor the laws set for sportsmen...

Brent

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this was one of my points.

was that yall i saw in sherwood?

i would also like to report that last night i saw jane lubchenco huggin a pine tree till it died.

Richard J.

The groups I was talking about in Pa.were making a lot of money selling the meat and horns. It wasnt for there own personal use. These were large operations. They used many barns to store until shippment. Racks were going for big money in N.Y. at the time. We even had some clubs from out of state that wouldnt hunt. Pay people to shoot a buck for them. Hardly ever left camp. mostly lawyers, and doctors. Everyone thought it was funny to see them with there new cloths and gun. (never fired). It was just there get a way from work.

RJ

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