View Poll Results: Do you support your local conservation officers using deer decoys to catch poachers?
Yes, I do.
145
92.36%
No, I do not.
12
7.64%
I am indifferent.
0
0%
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Your views on DNR using decoys to nab poachers
12-22-2010, 08:06 PM
#31
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 10,679
All for it.
Game wardens have been everywhere this year where I hunt and I am glad to see them.
The argument that they could say they weren't really poaching because it wasn't a real deer will never hold water. It's no different that an under cover officer posing as a prostitute. Even though the perp and officer never have sex it's still solicitation. Even though the deer isn't real it's still poaching.
Game wardens have been everywhere this year where I hunt and I am glad to see them.
The argument that they could say they weren't really poaching because it wasn't a real deer will never hold water. It's no different that an under cover officer posing as a prostitute. Even though the perp and officer never have sex it's still solicitation. Even though the deer isn't real it's still poaching.
12-23-2010, 04:43 AM
#33
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Where animals get eaten
Posts: 671
im for it.chances are the hunter who does shoot a decoy is probably doing something illegal in the first place.its not like the dnr put these decoys in places where it is legal to shoot or hunt.
12-23-2010, 05:18 AM
#34
Typical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location:
Posts: 819
know of a guy that was hunting with a buck decoy about 300 yards off the road and a truck stopped and shot at the decoy 3 or 4 times then when it didn't run off they found out it was fake and speed away luckily the guy that was in the stand didn't get shot and got the tags of the truck and the people were caught. i have been guiding at our lodge for 5 years now and have never seen a gw around there we have 1 for every like 7 counties give or take one heck i haven't seen a gw this year any where i have hunted.
12-23-2010, 05:30 AM
#35
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ponce de Leon Florida USA
Posts: 10,079
Hard to believe that 6 people have voted against it. I think if a poacher's bullet hits the robotic part of the deer and destroys it the poacher has to pay for its replacement, expensive..
12-23-2010, 05:35 AM
#36
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 2,358
the robo-deer are very lifelike. The shows I've seen, the wardens TRY to nab them before they shoot it, the robo-deer is expensive! they can get them for things like loaded firearm in a car, shooting from the road etc. One I watched on TV, the hunter actually did it "right", they drove ahead a bit, snuck back, walked off the road (legal whereever they were as long as they weren't on the road) and aimed. Warden shouted to not shoot and the guy was sent on his way.
12-23-2010, 05:54 AM
#38
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Kansas
Posts: 190
i voted against it because who knows where they put it and what is behind it. with our high powered rifles who knows what can get hit. if someone is on a road that means buildings and houses are near by and there could be kids riding four wheelers in the field behind where they put em out. other than that i dont have an issue with it
12-23-2010, 06:54 AM
#40
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: The Republic of Texas
Posts: 12,040
i voted against it because who knows where they put it and what is behind it. with our high powered rifles who knows what can get hit. if someone is on a road that means buildings and houses are near by and there could be kids riding four wheelers in the field behind where they put em out. other than that i dont have an issue with it