ORIGINAL: jhalfhill
no atlas i dont have to ask your permission to "poach" a deer and sneak it out in the middle of the night. and for the record i wouldn't view it as poaching. to me poaching is killing more deer than you have tags, or road hunting, or shooting at night, something that is not fair chase. even if i were bending the law a little by hunting in the city i would NEVER call it poaching, no matter who did it because its fair chase. illegal and against the law, yes. poaching no. that puts someone in an entirely different and unmoral category with people who spotlight with rifles.
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Pronunciation Key(p
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v. poached, poach·ing, poach·es
v. intr
To take fish or game in a forbidden area.
If you sneak into a forbidden area and shoot a deer and drag it out under cover of darkness you are most certainly a poacher. You can justify it any way you want to by saying shooting from the road or with spot lights is worse somehow but the bottom line is that they are ALL illegal means of taking a deer..........in other words they are poaching.
if i saw a 160 class deer in there i definately wouldnt need to come on here and ask YOU if i should go hunt it. i was asking what YOU would do.
The fact that you are letting the size of a deer's rack effect your decision is very telling...........as most poachers have no interest in anything other then some part of the animal they can sell or use as a "trophy" That could be a rhino horn or a elephant tusk or a bear's claws. In your case it's a deer's rack. Why not just slip in at night and kill it and then cut his head off and run away. If you are gonna start poaching you may as well go all the way.
Fortunately you don't live by me because I have 130-140 class bucks in my yard almost every night. I could kill one of them any day of the week..............if I wanted to be a poacher. Thankfully, I don't.