ORIGINAL: patrkyhntr
Whether someone poaches a deer at night or puts his wife's tag on it matters not to me. Both are doing something illegal.
So if I understand you correctly, in that the offense doesn't matter, you'd be o.k. with the same pushishment for all game violations. Really? Don't you think the jack lighterin my previous post should receive a more severe punishment than the guy who puts his wife's tag on a deer? I think the only intelligent way of doing things is to have the punishmentproportional to the severity of the crime.
ORIGINAL: patrkyhntr
You may not like it when the blame commission gets help from other hunters in cracking a poaching case, but I do. If we turn a blind eye toward outlaws we are complicit in their lawbreaking. What you are suggesting is the same as saying we shouldn't turn in gangbangers because it would be like the KGB, turn in your neighbor. I will continue to give tips to my local WCO, and feel good when he gets a conviction on one of our local scumbuckets.
I guess you didn't understand my post or you are just trying flame this. If you read it again you will see that I said that "encouraging hunters to turn other hunters in" can get out of hand. I didn't say that we should never do it. Certainly if we see a serious violation taking place any responsbible individualwould inform a WCO but I don't thinkit would be a good thing or even rational tobe running around reporting every minor infraction we see any more than we should be calling the state police every time we see someone going 70 in a65.