What's does this have to do with what is being discussing?

Ok, here's a different question regarding poaching.

The deer season here has been over for about 2 months. We feed all winter long, and last night a buck with a severely broken front left leg came in. An open fracture, the kind where the bone sticks out through the skin. We don't have much in the way of coyotes, so this deer is going to die a long painful death. Or should "someone" do something? Remember, it's out of season: it's poaching. Right?

It's not poaching, it's doing the right thing, probably a warden will do it for you.
The problem with the warden doing it is he'll most likely give it to one of those "too lazy to work homes", sometimes called a homeless shelter.

Simple ethics.vs law = law But there are outlaws, I would shoot it and hope for the best with a clear conscious.

I seriously doubt that the people with the "POACHING IS POACHING" posts would let their wife or children go hungry just so they can say that they never broke a law. I'm not going out drunk at night and shooting up the hillside but my family will eat if it comes down to it.

Are you qualified to make that call? You a vet or done studies on the mortality rates of wounded deer? Can't believe all the 3 legged deer I have shot. Its been a few. Even shot one once in ML season with a bunch of 22 slugs in its hind.

Gutshot, thats why poeple work. I grew up in that state. And have heard these arguments for a long time. And there was always a alternative. I have yet to see too many starving familys in that state.

You better believe I'd pop bambi's butt if it was that or watch my little girl go to bed hungery! I'd be busting my butt to try to find a job, but kids don't understand that they don't get to eat dinner because mommy and daddy don't have any money. Since I'm a contract employee, if they decide that they no longer need my services, I won't be able to draw unemployment because they don't pay anything into the system for me. Food stamps don't go very far either. Watch your kids go hungery for a few days and then tell me you would never poach to feed them! I haven't had to do that with my daughter and I hope that I never do, but my mom did with us. We ate a lot of that free food from the government(that crap isn't fit to feed to my dogs) and more than a few poached animals. Here's a hint about how nasty that free food is. Take a can of corn. Put it your attic and forget about it for 8-10 years. Make sure that it can freeze in the winter and bake in the summer. Then open it up and eat it cold. That's almost what the cheese tasted like. The peanut butter wasn't any better. MRE peanut butter is creamier and better tasting than that stuff. Maybe it's gotten better in the last 20 years or so, but I doubt it! And she could only get it once a month, so it had better last! I remember those days, I'll do whatever I have to avoid it happening to my family. As long as I make enough money to provide sleep/warm, I can always provide eat with a rifle!

iloveto4X4, if people can't afford to have kids, then why not use protection. I grew up on the Mingo county, WV line, and have seen generation after generation drawing in welfare, poaching, but boy they sure did go in debt, and buy 4 wheelers, and the nicest trucks then get laid off from the mines, draw gov checks, and on and on. I got out of there. I had it. If you cant afford kids, don't have em, I say.

Bigcountry, can you afford to have a kid? Will you still be able to say that in 10 years? I can afford a kid now just like I could afford her when we had her. Will I be able to afford her in 2 years? 10 years? Who knows. Does that mean that if something happens and I can't afford to feed her with $2+ a pound hamburger that I should give her up? In case you haven't noticed, the prices are going up at the grocery store. Not all of us can afford to eat whatever we want or drive $40k trucks. I've had to eat the crap food that's barely fit for human consumption that the gov't hands out, and I don't ever want to do that again. I bust my a$$ so that my daughter will have better than I did as a kid. I drive a seven year old Jeep with 131K on it. It's falling apart, but getting a better vehicle would mean that I have to get rid of something else.

I knew better than to reply to this post in the first place, but I couldn't help myself. When I see people saying that they'd never resort to poaching to feed their family because the gov't will be there to give them a handout, it gets my blood boiling. Having been on the recieving end of those handouts, I know how crappy they really are, how little there is of it, and how hard it is to get them. I never said that it was legal, just that if I had to to feed my family, I would in a hillbilly's heart beat.