Atlas,
unfortunatley, you have just told me and everyone else all we need to know about your ethics. If you are man enough to choose to break a law, be man enough to admit it; that would be respectable. I'm sorry you chose not to.
However, I never accused you of hunting in your backyard; and never said if i agreed with the law or not because its irrelevant; I simply questioned the fact that if you are willing to break the Environmental Conservationslaw in your own back yard, I hope that you are not willing to break the law while your hunting (ie. representing yourself as a hunter).
Its your own free will to either follow or break the law; but I would hope all real sportsman TRY to follow and obey all the game / environmental conservation laws; and if they don't agree with one, try to change it. I would have had a lot more respect for you if you hadn't tried to white wash your willfully breaking the law.
Prime example was when I got pulled over for speeding last spring, the trooper asked me if i knew why he pulled me over, and I told him "yes, because I was speeding"; I was in the wrong and admitted it, and he let me go with a warning. I'm no angel, but when I'm wrong, and know it, i admit it. jmo