Well NY Bowhunter, I do respect your opinions and that is what I asked for - opinions but, I' m not sure a million COs would help us out. Can you say slavery and gun control? I' ve found deer carcasses that had been back strapped on my property strung up along the fence several at a time. Obviously shining shooters. I hate this as well. The dude I was referring to shot deer with bow and gun during shooting light, just didn' t tag them. Does this make it right you ask? No. It doesn' t. But I shudder to think about people preferring a guy to leach off the state and our taxes to feed his family when he could be feeding them in a way that doesn' t harm anyone. That' s all I was saying.

This is exactly why I chose another profession. Here' s another example of why I wouldn' t make a good CO - would have let this one go too: Buddy and I were salmon fishing at a dam. Caught many salmon and gave them all away. In fact, neither of us actually even took the fish off the hook - others netted them and took them off. We were giving all the fish we caught, some foul hooked, others not, to an obviously very poor old black man that couldn' t catch a thing. Got back to the truck and the CO comes up and writes nearly $600 worth of tickets to us for foul hooking fish. Fish that were half dead. Then the CO went to the guy we gave the fish to and wrote him up as well. That sucks. Over a grand in fines for fish that would be dead either way within a week.