is poaching ever justifiable?

[okcaveman]

is poaching ever justifiable? imho not if it is about horns. if somebody is feeding their family, and they still show respect for the animal then i feel it is.

whata yall think?

please vote but also explain your feelings please.

[Simp]

I vote no. I'm not sure that anyone these days really has tolive off the land.

[early in]

Not in my eyes![:'(][>:]

[brucelanthier]

Only to the poacher.

[joemr1288]

Poaching is never justifiable. If you need the meat to feed your family and thats why you poach you might as well go to public land instead of having a chance of getting caught poaching and having to pay a fine or going to jail. Thats what I think anyways.

[okcaveman]

ORIGINAL: joemr1288

Poaching is never justifiable. If you need the meat to feed your family and thats why you poach you might as well go to public land instead of having a chance of getting caught poaching and having to pay a fine or going to jail. Thats what I think anyways.

im sry i didnt understand what you meant there bout going to public land.

and just to clarify, im not talking horn hunting here but a doe or a yearling. iv been amazed at the double standard alot of folks put on horns or not.

[Dopler]

NO, if people need meat, they can get free deer meat. Too many people justify poaching under the fictitious guise that they need to feed their family. I call it the OJ Simpson effect, if you tell yourselfa liefor long enough, you even start believing the BS yourself.

[early in]

That's why I donate a deer almost every year! It goes to food banks to feed people that feel they need to poach to eat. No excuse![:'(][>:]

[grneyemonstr]

Never acceptable Horns or no horns

EDIT: I cant think of anyone on this site, based on reading post on here for over 2 years, that would have a double standard on poaching a doe vs a buck

[okcaveman]

i understand that it is cheating. i am majoring in wildlife biology/conservation so that ic an become a game warden. but it seems most of yal live in better educated, better off communities. come to rural OK, or AR and it is a totally different picture. if i knew of a hfh program i would also donate but i dnt know of any such, as it is i usually donate to less well off friends/family. but anyway, coming from where i do i cam see certain circumstances where it is justifiable, wrong yes according to the law, but also potentially unavoidable

edit. maybe nobody on here does. im sure everybody on here is perfect, but i do know a ton of ppl who have double standards. in fact i know very few who dnt have, those that dnt hunt for meat not horns. the majority of trophy hunters i know do have double standards