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First off, your post seems a little harsh. However, when I stop and re-read your post and really think about it, your right. I have thought the same thing when reading some of the posts. I like to call them "who is the most ethical" threads. I'm guilty as anyone; I'll tell how I would call the GW and turn them in if I even heard about someone poaching. Honestly I guess that is a lie, cause I hear about alot of poaching but since I don't know it all for a fact, I just let it go.

As unpopular as your opinion may be, you are right to a degree. There are some folks on this board who would turn you in if they could prove that you thought about poaching, and there are others who are probably poachers. Then there are all of us "in-betweens" we don't poach but we don't run around looking for those who do.

Boy that ought to rile a few folks up.<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle> Serioulsy, if you stop and think about his point, it is valid to a degree. Not <u>everyone</u> of us is an undercover game warden. My hats off to those of you who are.

RE: You people aren't THAT honest.
 

Like Cardeer said there is to much poaching
going on,I think Janc is a little out of place who is he to judge any of us unless he
has a guilt trip or something my creditablity
is important to myself as I am sure it is
with all of you right is right wrong is
wrong ethics are what guides us to do right
and protect what is important to us!!

RE: You people aren't THAT honest.
 

What brought this post on?????
I may not be an angel but mess with my properity or my hunting I'll bust you for sure.
janc I think you are out of line on this post.

Hunting is nature.
It is our nature to hunt.
I'm not a hunting fanatic just a hunting addict.

RE: You people aren't THAT honest.
 

Janc got a point, I have selectively reported people to wildlife officers. My hunting partners don't break games laws because I won't hunt with them, but every once in a while someone makes a mistake. We give them hell but we don't turn them in.

RE: You people aren't THAT honest.
 

I sort of have to agree with janc. I know there are many &quot;holier than thou&quot; threads that get started. There are two sides to this coin however: Do you call the police everytime there you witness an infraction of the law? What is the difference between shooting a deer out of season and someone driving drunk or speeding? Breaking the law is just that. Breaking the law. Double standard? Maybe, but as hunters who practice a way of life constantly under attack from all sides by anti's of all shapes and forms, we have to police our own. It is our duty to respect the game we seek, and ensure that is is respected by others. This is the only way our past can continue into the future. That being said, ethics are personal. If it isn't illegal, leave it alone.

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janc, that's exactly why I thought about my response to that question before I posted it. Who are you to tell me what I believe? I'm not here to tell you that I never break the law: I drive like my a$$ is on fire. I've been known to drink too much and drive, and let's not even go in to my college experiences. But I'll tell YOU one thing, I don't know you and I don't care what you think about me. With the anonymity given me by this forum, I can sit here and type whatever I want (truth or lies) whether you like it or agree with it, so why should I say something that I don't believe? I never claimed to be an officer of the law. I probably wouldn't pass the background check. But the last thing I need is some pencilneck telling me all about myself. If you don't think I'd turn you in for poaching, c'mon down and try me! I'm out!

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GoTres

You don't have the 'ANOMYNITY' you think you have on this board!!!!!!

The moderator can check your ISP, and learn exactly who you are!!!!!!

RE: You people aren't THAT honest.
 

I agree with TxCowboy and frizzellr on this one.

I think I would have to call myself an &quot;in-between&quot; by TxCowboy's definition.

Can't we all just get along? <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

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I don't know the reason for you're post, but it doesn't matter what you think, I know of two brothers who don't care about seasons or bag limits. I've spoke to the wardens about them and they all know them by name, however trying to catch them is another thing. The warden went by their house the 30th of Dec. and found an untagged buck in the back of their truck, he fined the $205 and tagged the deer after he checked his licence and if he had a legal tag, which he luckily did. The brother that was fined took the blame because the brother that killed the deer was out of tags. Always hard to prove unless they get caught in the act. These boys specialty is tresspassing...they've gotten away with it for awhile but it is going to catch up to them.

SOTHRDNK

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Twakk, you probably know the boys I'm talking about, they've lived in Southside all their life.

SOTHRDNK

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I think janc may be onto something, to a certain degree. I'm no &quot;goodie-goodie,&quot; that's why I stay out of the &quot;holier than thou&quot; threads. For instance, I'm friends with a landowner who has good opportunity for deer on his land. He's invited my son & I to hunt his land. But he tells of taking deer on his own land with a rifle. In southern MD, that's a no-no. He also told me to go ahead and rifle hunt on his land, it's okay. (I didn't, of course.) Now, I've never seen him hunt with a rifle, and I've never seen him with anything other than legal hunting tools.

Do you think I'm going to turn him in, because I suspect he's breaking the rules on his land?