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Hey everyone, A couple of days ago some guys poached abuck on someones land. They shot the buck and decided to come back for it the next day. Well the guy who owned the land found it dead in with his cattle before the guys came back to get the head. He called the wardens and by the time they got their the guys were back getting the head. The land owner took a few shots to scare them off before the wardens got there. The wardens chased them but they only caught one, (THE TRUCK OWNER,) the other three took off running in the woods. The one they caught was drunk and high on dope. They took his truck and the weapons he had with him. My family owns a house and some land close by and this really disappoints me considering this place has always been on of my favorite vacation and hunting spots. Italso has always been really peaceful and low crime. It really makes me sick how people would do such low things for money and then all they probably would have done with it was get high.

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Yeah, some people have no respect for anything. It's a shame.
In the meantime, I'll be rooting for those wardens!

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lucky for him,and ihate a poacher as much as anybody, but if he would have hit any of them i imagine histroubles would just be starting

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[:@]It wasn't that long ago we had a thread about this. I feel bad for the guy for having this done on his land, but in my opinion he should be hauled off to jail.

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Of course I don't condone the actions of the poachers. But I have alot of questions from your post.

What on earth was the landowner thinking when he took shots at people who posed absolutely no immediate threat to him? If he would have hit one of them it would have been agg. assualt w/ a deadly weapon. If he killed one of them it would be an outright murder case as he knows the weapon would most likely kill before he pulled the trigger. A prosecuter would love such a cut & dry case IMO.

Did the game warden know the land owner took shots at these poachers? If he did know and did nothing about it I can only wonder what the heck is going on down there? If he knew he should have arrested the land owner.

It ain't the wild west anymore.

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I'd bet that the landowner only fired shots to scare them and wasn't trying to shoot them.

Poachers really suck. Last season I found 2 dead deer with the horns sawed off at my hunting spot.

What fun would that be to brag about a deer you illegally shot? There is no story to be proud of behind that.

Kind of like fenced in ranch hunting. Thats not hunting, thats pretend hunting...

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Sorry everyone I must have accidentally left some stuff out. He shot with a shotgun to scare the people, not to harm them, and the spot where they were was at the edge of the pasture right by his back yard. Sorry again I was half asleep when I wrote the post.

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This is very unfortunate series of events, but I can't/won't EVER root for the game wardens. In my area, they are the BIGGEST outlaws and jerks to law abiding sportsmen.

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What do you mean? A warden visited my hunter's safety course when I took one, and he seemed alright. It was at a hunting club, andthe staff there knew the wardenand I don't think that they would've invited him if he was a jerk! Maybe a TWRA
(Tennessee Wildlife ResourcesAgency)game warden is different from a regular game warden.) Man, I'm starting to sound like I come from Texas!
Forget the above statement that Tennessee wardens are special, they're just ordinary people like everyone else.

Where are you from anyway? Alaska, 'cause people do stupid things there.

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Some people are just jerks. Stupid poachers. [:@]

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I am in Texas. I am sure all wardens aren't jerks, but the ones in my area ARE! Long story short, seven years ago, my oldest son killed a big deer that we took to enter in a big buck contest at a local convenience store. The lady that owned the store was measuring the rack when the game warden showed up. He walked right past the deer and never looked at it. (As a side note, this all took place on a Sunday morning, and the warden was in "street clothes" but driving his state truck.) He went in the store and bought some snuff. When he came back out, the store owner called him over to see the deer. His first words about the deer was that he didn't believe that my son had killed it. My son was CRUSHED. There was absolutely no call for his actions. If he had believed it, he should have questioned me. He got back in his truck and left me to explain to my son how people might be jealous of someone young killing a good deer. My son's buck did win the big buck contest. I called the state office and filled a report on the warden but nothing ever came of it. I guess they cover for their own.

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I'm glad you decided to clarify that you don't think ALL game wardens are jerks, because I can assure you that is nowhere near the truth. I have dealt with several game wardens who are fine people, and I even worked with one for the first part of the summer. I think that most of the game wardens in Wyoming are great guys.

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Poachers suck!!![:@]Well compared to how I have it youll have it easy.

I own 600 acres of land in Millican,Tx.80 acres is a swamp that is fenced in by itself.In the past 5 years a bunch of poachers have stole 2 feeders from me.They also have torn down the fence with a bulldozer and stolen about 50 "NO HUNTING" and "NO TRESSPASSING" signs from the fence.What is worse,the game warden did nothing!!![:@][:@][:@]He came out there once,but he didnt see anybody that day so he left and blew it off.Also,the sad thing is the feeders that they stole were on the oposite side,not the side next to there property.Which means they just walk through it.But heres what relly tick me off.My son won aCuddeBack camera at the Ducks Unlimited Banquet so he wanted to put it by the feeder.Now you can guess what happend,THEY STOLE IT!!!!!!![:@][:@][:@]Now the neighbors have leased there land that is next to us to 20 hunters to duck hunt on!!!So I have to make my son miss youth weekend because I have to fix the fence!!!DAMN POACHERS!!!![:@]

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The moral to the story? Maybe it is just Texas game wardens?

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Game wardens here in north alabama are pretty nice. My cousin is one

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I have to agree. Here in MD on a state WMR, there is a gamewarden this will ride you like a donkey if he thinks you are breaking the rules. I just always thought he was a stickler for the rules. Then he gets busted poaching deer. And the wild part is they didn't fire him, they just moved him off of one piece of property lookign over another in another county.

I didn't know all this until I married into this family, where my new wifes uncle used to be his boss and told me all this.

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Pa WCO's are usually very nice and courtious people. Just dont break the law and they are fine. Break the law and the will hammer you! Thats they way it should be. Keeps honest people honest and jerks out of the field!

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Lets see, the landowner shot at the Poachers who were breaking three laws. Taking game illegally, trespassing and criminal trespass because they had weapons. The landowner shot a weapon on his own land. I shoot on my own land all the time. I do not see as good as I used to, if someone is illegally on my property they take the risk of being shot!

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hypothetically speaking if you saw a poacher's truck or w/e are you legally allowed to blow out a tire? bc ur not allowed to actually shoot them tho right?

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Actually around here the law use to say that a person had to be in your home before you could shoot them but now all they have to be is on your property.

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Its that time of the year again

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You know I live in a big city and I wish the news cameras would turn off when the cops catch thugs like you mentioned. I almost thing that should pass a law that would prohibit breeding for some of these guys.

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One of my first hunting spots had a problem with poachers real bad. It was a honey hole and had lots of deer on it but I would go out to hunt and find a deer that had been shot with a bow and the guts would still be in it but the poachers would cut out the back straps and hams and leave the rest! They would do it two or three times a season, they may have done it all year but I was only back thereduring season. They had to walk in and out and live close by cause the land owner would watch and never see any cars. Then one year it just stopped on its own with out catching them, must have moved or died?

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I have over 200 acre and could not stop them from killing the deer but 2 years ago it stop. I seen them go into the wood and call the law they said they could not get than for a couple of hours. that would moke it after dark so I told then not to come. The strange think happen someone put 2 bullet holes in the rad. for them. they did not go far before itover heated. they call the law and he made a report when they left the cop came to the door and had coffee with me and said I don't think they will be back and die laughting

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I hate poachers, they are scum!!!


I chased this one for a couple of years only to find him opening day like this.

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well i think we found one of the ones that got away into the woods[8D][8D][8D][8D]