ORIGINAL: quiksilver
ORIGINAL: brucelanthier
I does my carrying a deer rifle into my bowhunting stand become a burden to you or anyone? Endanger you or anyone? A 2 year old driving would endager themselves and evryone on the road. Time for a better analogy
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Bruce, YOU carrying a deer rifle into YOUR bowhunting stand concerns ME, because WE are hunting the SAME DEER. When YOU poach it, it's dead.
Poaching affects everybody. Same as a 2-year old careening down the highway in a pickup truck.
Deer are property of the state, not the individual. If you were poaching deer that you OWNED (such as inside a canned-hunt) - I wouldn't care if you took a bazooka in there and blew up every deer in sight. They're YOUR deer.
But when you're hunting state-owned property,
you're harming EVERY CITIZEN inside the state, AND every American citizen eligible to buy a tag to hunt that deer.
This isn't a situation where you're only harming yourself.
Then request a Lic increase to put more CO's in the field. Fran I am just guessing, but a person who poaches a deer, is not a big follower of the law