WTG I don't honestly think that most other WY residents feel the way you do about out of state hunters that come too their state, take shots that they obviously are NOT prepared nor good enough to take. And they CERTAINLY don't want non-res' slinking through the brush while disregarding state regulations. What other laws were violated on that hunt that we DIDN'T see on the video? Are we to assume he was even legally on that land? Did he have the proper licenses?

I can tell you that when I mulie/antelope hunted in WY the year before last it was the non-res hunters who gave ALL of us hunters a bad name. The outfitter I used had a 100k acre ranch leased in the Crazy Woman Creek region southwest of Buffalo. We spent a couple hours on two different days chasing down non-res IDIOTS who were riding the roads looking for bucks close enough to be shot from the roads. One of them was from Oregon and another was from WIS so they come from EVERYWHERE. Their arguement? "Oh we thought we were on BLM land". As the old adage goes, IGNORANCE is no excuse for the law. (Likewise in cases such as this video, that same IGNORANCE is blissas well.) I used my own video camera to film the poachers from Oregon dragging a small muley off the ranch and up onto the road and loading it into their truck. The outfitter was going to use the footage as evidence to be prosecuted.

I just won't dismissthis as a "honest intentionsgone awry". The morons in thevideo seemed completely content with such inept shooting and doing so while blatantly breaking the orange law as well. Justun-acceptableIMHO. If he would have turned around after that gutshot with a grimmace on his face and expressing remorse for such crappy shooting I might have been a little more understanding. But instead you could clearly see the relief and happiness of just putting a hole in something, regardless of whether or not it was a quick and humane kill. The buck didn't walk back over the crest of the hill and drop dead either, at least not by the video. How are we to know that he didn't high tail it 1/2 mile across the plains in excrutiating agony, and all because Sir Bust A Cap was just content to poke acouple of holesin his hide!

Sorry if I have offended anyone else, but I won't retract my statements too and about the clown in the video as I think ANY criticizement iswarranted by such careless actions!!!
RA

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BTW "reaper" did you have ANY clue what was over the hill? I guess you slept through that part of Hunters Safety like you did the part about hunters orange huh? If a ranchers house, livestock, other game animals (or gasp another person like a ranch hand or other hunters) were over there, what do you think they would have to say about your "fine shootin"? Did the landowner see this tape? If so I seriously doubt you will returning too that place in WY next year!!!