what' s your IQ???

Mine? 138 as of my last test. [:-]

Very good!! No wonder you concluded that I was trying to say I owned the deer because I paid for my tag. It' s all clear to me now. I didn' t know you were brilliant....bravo brother. Where the hell did that come from?
That probably was a poor analogy about the bank robber, but it was the first thing that popped in my head. If I wanted to deliberate over the matter and come up with an analogy that would directly correlate a little better I probably could. However Einstien I don' t think it warrants being called stupid and a moron. Just my opinion.
Although I feel like it, I' m not going to engage in a name calling/bashing match with you. All I can say is I' m very happy I annoyed you and I think you are an excitable fella. Stupid I am not, but you have it all figured out already so I' ll let you go with it.

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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.

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I agree, Navy, but I don' t think of myself as NOT being an hororable man. I honor God (who by the way, really owns the deer, not us), my family, and most certainly my hunting. Don' t think for a second you own anything in this country.

I consider myself an American and a patriot. When it comes right down to it, hunting licenses are actaully constitutionally illegal. But that' s another deal altogether. I am not a psychotic redneck malitia member. I don' t support welfare or most other state run ways to drain our pockets, including the DNR. Do we have to buy a license to harvest a deer? Yes. Do I? Yes.

I would let a guy feed his family. THAT is why I am NOT a CO. Perhaps I am a hypocrite. Perhaps not. But please don' t think for a second that I have no honor.

This is the proverbial ethics question: What' s more important in someone' s consciensce, the law or feeding one' s family?
I wouldn' t look the other way, I would just try to get him more legal meat. I mean, aren' t there hunters around who would give them there deer? I know i would.

im so tired of hearing about how much time someone has spent hunting one particular animal and then complain if someone else takes it. if the guy is in a bad situation and he has to feed a family, who cares! its a pastime for you, its his familys welfare for him. furthermore, you guys are such hyprocrites. do you alwyas come to a complete stop at every stop sign? do you alwyas follow the speed limit? those are laws too.

I agree with you 200 percent. If I rob a bank and a cop sees me hes not gonna look the other way reguardless if i need the money or not.Hes gonna do his job. Game warden is absolutley no diffrnt from a cop and if someone breaks the law he is obligated to act on it. Look if the guy didnt want to accept help from the state he should have went out and did it like me and you do(legally). I dont appreciate the fact that i put in anywhere from 20-30 hours in the woods a week and sometimes dont even see anything. Yet guys go where they know the deer are everynight cause they spot them and shoot them. Thats not right nor fair