RE: Respectable poachers...if there is such a thing.
I would think if you were hungry.........buck or doe would not make a difference, meat is meat............I have no respect for anyone, legal or not , that does not respect the animal they kill and use the meat or at least donate it if they do not want it...........I have had guys give me a deer (I didn't want or ask for it) because they killed a buck and only wanted to cut the antlers off! It is perfectly legal for these guys to hunt, but I would call that poaching to some degree, the animal was left in mt shed without me even knowing about it, he called and said do "whatever " with it! Needless to say that man does not hunt on our property anymore.................If a man was truly starving and needed to put a meal on his families table I would not hold it against him, that is not disrespecting the animal it is just not having the $$$$$ to buy a tag........I think there are far worse things than that, such as the example at the beginning of this thread, wasting that animal for the pleasure of killing..........that is poaching!