I just read a great article in American Hunter on poaching. These scumbags are making a living off of it, and clearing out some ENTIRE AREAS of trophy animals. These are the same bucks/bulls that we chase every year, perhaps waiting for them to grow! [:@]

These are not poachers of the past, looking for meat. There are many cases of huge deer found with the heads cut off, it's about BIG money.

Big whitetails in Illinois are as likely to be killed by poachers as by a legal hunter!!!!

George Waters of Iowa was arrested for killing at LEAST 42 huge whitetails,11 bull elk, and 6 mule deer, that were estimated to be worth $338,000! One buck was a 202", 19 point double drop monster, and another a 195" 17 point typical!

Kelly Frank, a "serial poacher", was caught with a 30" wide mule deer, the BIGGEST TYPICAL MULE DEER ever taken in Montana!

In Colorado, some are killing huge bull elk, pretending to be turkey hunting. Then hanging the head high in a tree, returning the following spring. Then claiming to have found a winterkill elk, that they can take without reporting it.

In Ohio, a ring busted with 30 trophy racks, the list goes on and on.

Please guys, if you suspect ANY kind of poaching in your area, report it! It's the only ways these guys get caught, the game wardens are spread too thin.

To think that a big buck on the propertys that we hunt on could be killed before the season even starts just makes my blood boil!!!