What is it you're wanting to hear SA that you haven't already, and seem to be ignoring? The point of this thread was "poaching". In most States, "poaching" is defined as I stated in a earlier post. It has nothing to do with your weak argument about speeding. It has to do with the law. So if you break the law, you are (under your definition) a criminal. Plain and simple. So if you break a game law, again in most States, you are a criminal, thus a poacher since it has to do with the game. I'm not trying to debate the good laws versus the bad laws. The law is the law until someone changes it. So either you are a poacher, or you are not. I for one, am not.

Now please understand that how a warden chooses to enforce that law is strictly up to him. The fact that you forgot to put a plug in a shotgun before going duck hunting may or may not get you arrested. But it's still a violation of the law, plain and simple.

Does this make you a bad person? Like others have said, not necessarily so. But the fact remains, a law is broken. You can't choose which laws you are to obey, and which you won't, or can't, or forgot to. You break a law, you take your chances. Poacher is a legal term, and like most laws, not subject to your interpretation, but that of the courts.