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Old 11-05-2005 | 02:05 AM
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i have ridden with and worked with the game and fishofficers here in Arkansas for over 20 years and i know that checking deer under another name is a major offense. if caught, you stand to loose everything you have with you, from guns and vehicles to hunting privledges for a couple of years. and they don't have to get you coming out of the woods. a man at a deer camp i was in wouldn't check his deer on the camp check list that i had gotten, but went all the way into town to check his deer. seemed odd to the g/f officer who knew us and hunted in the next camp, so he did some checking. seems this guys kids had killed several deer the first week of the season. he made a few calls to the schools in the town the guy was from and found that his kids were in school on the days they were supposed to be in camp and killing deer. cost him several hundred dollars and he got off easy. he knew he had broken the law, and the officer told him that he was being kind by not taking his truck and car, since his wife was driving it to pick up the deer he killed. he was checked almost every day the next year, and he dropped out of the camp the next year. i later heard he hadn't gotten any better, bragging to someone i knew that he had killed 21 deer in one year, using others tags and using tags two or three times. hope they catch him and throw him under the jail house![:@]the deer he killed illeagally might have been the one my young daughter could have killed, but will never have a chance to now. that's why i am so against killing more than you are allowed-it might be the one a younger hunter would have killed. and we need all the younger hunters we can get-they are the future and we need to help them all we can.
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