My my my but how things change. If I didn't know any better I would have sworn I was on a different BBS, but since this is the only one I go to it must be true. This same question was asked a while back, maybe a year or so ago. I saidback then what I believed then and still do now and was jummped all over by some who had to get on their soap box and make their total disgust for poaching under any situation known. One went so far as to say I should sell my weapons to feed my family if it came to eat or go hungry because of lack of food. A fine short term answer but when the money and food are gone what am I going to sell next. Now before I get everyone thinking I poach to feed my family let me say that is not the case at this time. I have a very good job for our area and I do not see any reason for me to poach. Michigan has had a very liberal bag limit in effect to crop the deer herd down for the last couple years and I also shoot deer during the summer months for farmers with a ton of crop damage. As you can guess my freezer is always full of venison, as well as the freezers of a lot of other folks. I was raised in an area her in the U.P. were people really thought deer season opened July 4th. It is really sad to see all the poaching going on and I mean "poaching". Poeple shooting deer to sell in bars not to feed their families, but to feed their addictions. Some of these guys have been caught in sting operations at least half a dozen times or more. Nothing ever happens with them as they have nothing and the warden says they are just trying to feed their families. I have been blessd with a gift of knowledge of the outdoors and of game and how to harvest it. Let me just say as I believe in my heart everybody on this board would do the same, as long as I can hunt my family will never starve.

LIVE TO HUNT,HUNT TO LIVE.