Some poachers will never learn

[duckaholic]

Hey all,
Do any of you remember the 2 kids that were poaching deer around the Woodburn area. I guess the DNR had been after the 2 for 2 years. Anyway, who'd guess that I'd get the chance to work with one of the maggets. During the 12:00 break one day a few of us were talking about buck hunting, then this kid being new decided to pitch in. He was so damn proud that he actually bragged about being one of the poachers. He was telling us that they would drive around with spotlights until they found a buck. They'd shoot it, wouldn't gut it, then throw the deer into the back of their truck and dump it with the rest of the carcases and cut the rack off. He said that they had shot over 70 deer most of them the DNR could do nothing about because the carcass had be eaten and they had hid some racks in a friends barn. The DNR didn't know out the majority in other words. He got busted because they kept cutting a lock off of a farmers fence. The farmer called it in, and he DNR sat back and waited and finally saw these 2 shining the spotlight across the farmers field. He got his license taken away for 2 years and I THINK he said 20,000 $ fine between the 2 of em'. He also bragged about how during shotgun season, the group he hunted with had always used high powered rifles. When we asked him if he learned his lesson the little !@#$#@!# said that "yeah, now they make spotlights with lenses that cant be seen from a distance". That was enough to set me off, this kid got an ear full from damn near every deer hunter I work with. Thought I'd vent a little.

 

[Gundog]

They only lost their liscenses and a fine? Not stiff enough if you ask me. Should have lost their hunting rights for years as well as all their guns! You should have gave him a boot in the a@# while you were at it. There's no room in this world for poaching!

 

[duckaholic]

Yeah, I know what you mean. The kid said he would have been in alot more trouble, but the judge lessoned the penalty because of their age. What a crock of [censored]!! If they were old enough to shoot a gun and old enough to hunt alone, then they should be old enough to suffer the consequences for their actions. Hell, if I was the judge they wouldn't be hunting in Iowa ever again. Oh yeah, he also said since he couldn't hunt in Iowa he went and hunted deer in Missouri. Make sense to you

 

[alaskanwhtail]

WE NEED HARSH PENALTYS FOR THIS KIND OF ACT. IN ALL REALITY WE AS THE TRUE HUNTERS TAKE THE BLUNT END OF IT CAUSE OUR BUCKS THAT WE PASS ON TO GET BIG GET TAKEN FROM

HOLES LIKE THIS.

 

[RTN]

On my trip up in Nov. my buddy was walking back to the farm and ran into 2 guys shinning flashlights into the fields we were hunting around. He scared the crap out of the driver when he nearly stuck his head in the window and asked could he help them. They were very much aware of two large bucks that frequented the area every night trolling for does. They asked if he was the landowners son and said they were trying to get permission to hunt the farm. When he told them he didn't think they would find the landowner out in the field at that hour they hastily made their way on down the road. He couldn't get their tag # but we told the landowner and one of the locals who had permission to hunt there. They said they would keep an eye out for them and notify the DNR. Some folks are pretty brazen/stupid. Hopefully they weren't up to breaking the law. Something tells me not to hold my breath on that thought though.