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Old 09-09-2008 | 08:39 PM
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Default Would you turn him in? Poaching Oriented.

I know of a guy, who prides himself on shooting a big buck every year, and he does it, every year. His tactics are as follows. He either takes his excivator and drives it through the brush till he sees it sticks the gun out of the window and shoots it or he takes his dump truck and does the same process. This guy is also the guy who killed 12 does last year and 6 small bucks and 1 big buck (scoring roughly 140 in PA).

There is another bunch of guys who I am very good friends with all 4 of them one of them is my Business partner and he isnt as bad as the other 3 but he still is just a little left of being right. first lets start off with the other 3. The first year of the combined kill the oldest of the 3 killed 29 deer. all does and no bucks. He employs any tactic necessarry, the old lick and stick on the liscense the lets put fresh blood on it every kill lets say were coyote hunting anything to make him look legit to the unsuspecting law abiding PA deer hunter. He kills them with his bow mainly and i think he killed 9 with the rifle that year. He just kills anything BROWN IS DOWN!! is his life long goal.

The 2nd guy. Last year he shot a very respectable PA buck real wide accully, out of the window of his truck durring the regular gun season, he kills a lot of deer a year I dont know as much about the 2nd one as i do the other 2. but the 2nd one isnt much better. atleast he gets out of the vehicle.

The 3rd guy, last year on our rainy first day diddnt even get out of the vehicle and he had 4 piled up in the bed of his truck, tags for one of them and the rest he just shot to shoot. I think he just enjoys watching them die. (he's what i call "that" guy out in the woods) Anyhow, I dont really like him as a person but still he poaches numbers of deer every year.

The 4th guy, my business partner Accully keeps all the deer he kills because he can genuinely needs them, he is living in a trailer with a sob story that is really quite crappy, anyhow I feel bad for him and can level with him on this one 100% he's not wasteful like the other ones, he may kill 4 or 5 deer in a year, but by the time the next deer season rolls around, He's completely out of deer meat. Not like the others they just go through the freezer and throw out garbage bags FULL of bad meat. He is the one I hunt with, when I hunt with this crew, He always expresses feelings to me that he dosent like being an outlaw and if he could make more money he would. So sometimes i give him 60/40 favoring him on our take from our business.

OK with all that being said, I know I cant talk to a Game commissioner and be like Hey, can you bust the other 4 and leave this one alone please? So that is what has kept me back from turning them in. They would never know I even did it and I can make sure of that. But I really dont want to see my friend get into harder times than what he's already on and i dont want to be like hey ..... I would help you out if I could but sorry you gotta deal with the conciquences.

SO i leave it open to you, Based off the poll results I'll make a decision.

Ryan.
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