Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire When Will Poaching Be Acceptable to The Fire?

. A few of my neighbors with schitbag kids who still lived at home as adults used to say they poached to feed themselves but they always had plenty to buy non essential schit and worked only part time seasonal labor.

They always seem to poach nice bucks and bull elk too. Poor starving souls. I understand their need to poach

In answer to your question: I had stopped at a remote game check station, per the law, and was being written up for failure to have my hunting license. I had one but not on me. A junker car car pulls in and the couple immediately starts b1tching at the warden about him writing up this kid for poaching a deer; it wasn't their kid. The warden stopped what he was doing, made me wait, and addressed them. First thing he said was he had just recently let the same kid go after catching him poaching a deer. Said the kid was a known poacher and had been on their radar for sometime. From what the warden was being told by others was the kid was killing all sorts of game and not just deer. When the couple said he had to poach deer to feed his family I piped up and asked why he didn't get a job or sell his rifle? If my memory serves me right, I believe my comment ended the conversation and the warden went back to writing me a ticket and the couple left. Before leaving I said something to the effect, so you let the kid get away poaching a deer and you're writing me up for not having my license on me, me a guy in a brand new pick up with a beautiful pointing dog like I'm your biggest problem. I no longer stop at check stations, the wardens aren't my friends they're just there looking for some reason to write you up.

Yeah well maybe that's your story but I've got another one. There was a time in my life when I only had one .22 rifle to my name and despite the fact that I had a full time job sometimes there wasn't enough money to buy groceries. The last thing I would have sold is that .22 rifle as it and a 79 cent box of Remington Mohawk .22 LR's was the only thing standing between me and hunger.

Americans don't know what hunger is. You need to travel and see what hunger really is. I ve worked 3 jobs to to get by so have many others.

Like all starving poachers I bet you were never willing to move for work and still live 10 miles from where you grew up or are living at home with your parents like most poachers.

Never in my life have I been at the point where I needed to poach. Have been told I was lucky to have been able to work full time while attending the university full time. This poaching kid lived in an area and time where jobs were plentiful but will admit I don't know his entire story. Just know when I was young and growing up there were numerous poachers and they're circumstances didn't dictate their need to poach. I know of two cases where a poacher shot a deer just to try out their new rifle.

Everyone's a poor victim and can justify their criminal and lazy behavior

Well goody for you you sanctimonious ass hole. In order to work three jobs you've got to be able to find three jobs. That isn't always possible in rural areas, especially in times of recession. At the time I was having difficulty with grocery money I had two small children at home and believe me I didn't give a rats pink ass about your opinion or anybody else's. Frankly I still don't.

I would respectfully suggest that your response indicates that you actually do.

Nope I don't give a shYt what anybody here thinks of me. I do get pissed at folks who give their sanctimoNious opinions about something they don't know a goddam thing about. Most of these fuggerS have never really had it hard or been hungry with no food in the house and no money to buy any. It's easy to see that very few here have ever really experienced hard times by how the little puzzies whine about not being able to get this or that or go here or there during this covid outbreak. Aww the poor dears.

Wardens are known to go for low hanging fruit. I had a lot of deer and elk being poached by house and neighbors' live stock were being shot and left. I offered the game wardens to come stay at my house, put a robo deer on my property to catch the poachers. They said too busy. The poaching ring was caught about a year later during a search warrant for meth. Found over 50 deer and elk remains on their property a few big horn sheep skulls. A family on welfare of course with 3 adult boys ( meth heads) still living at home.

Ive been checked fly fishing by wardens to ensure my barbs were pinched on my size 14 ehc. They ticketed my buddy because his barbs were pinched enough. $125 fine. A 100 yards down the river a few families of Mexicans were bait fishing,( not legal) making a mess leaving trash, dirty diapers, empty beer cans everywhere, built a fire which was illegal. and I asked the wardens why they don't ticket and they said they didn't speak Spanish.

I grew up in a town of 700 people in rural NW Wi. I started a paper route at age 8 and worked every summer like my brothers and sister. I knew at the age of 8 there was no future there like my siblings and we all went to college far away ( we all paid for our college) and then joined the military to pay off loans and grad school.

Too lazyy to move to find work and apparently too frightened to join the military to improve your lot in life. Going to set up a go fund me for your poor poor soul. Hope you don't starve to death before I can raise the funds lol

I always buy turkeys after thanksgiving and freeze them. Used to be less than20 cents a pound back in 80's. But I wasn't raised to be a victim and poach

Game Wardens.....Wow....Just fkn’n wow! 😎

Could you catch them and feed them like they do feeder pigs in the houses? Would it improve the meat/taste? I guess it might just as cheap to go to the pork outlet and buy the cuts you want.

Hard to move when you don't even have enough money to buy groceries don't you think ass hole ? And joining the army wasn't high on my list of things to do at the time with two small children. I couldn't join anyway as I'd already tried a couple years prior and was told I could not because of an injury to my achilles tendon which has me listed to this day as partially and permanently disabled. I'm not comp[laining at all now. I have enough in savings to go six months at least without income. This in spite of the fact that I just spent 11k on a vehicle a few weeks ago and paid for it in cash, Not bad considering the fact that I lost my home and 90% of my belongings in 2006 to a flood and had to start over. I have one more mortgage payment due next month and then I am debt free.

I knew to not to get married and start a family until my life and career and saving were established. No one is too blame except for your poor life decisions. Of course now I have to pay for peoples' lack of intelligence with my taxes. Keep on poaching you poor starving soul.

BullCookies, the wildlife belongs to all the residents of the state. Poaching is stealing from everyone. I'd turn your ass in.

I had a good job when I got married you stupid f.uck. Life is full of ups and downs for most people. My dad lost his job of 30 years when he was in his mid 50's and the company he worked for closed it;s doors and moved to Mexico. He couldn't find another in his field as a technical writer and ended up having to take a menial job making 1/3 of what he had been to get by till retirement. Not everybody has a silver spoon or lucky star stuck up their ass from birth to death.

I knew to not to get married and start a family until my life and career and saving were established. No one is to blame except for your poor life decisions. Of course now I have to pay for peoples' lack of intelligence with my taxes. Keep on poaching you poor starving soul.


I wish I only had achilles tendon problems. Thats a minor health problem compared who Ive went through and others. My neighbor has had MS for 10 years, wheelchair bound now for past 4 years, college Econ professor at local university. Cant use his right side of body now. His wife drives him to work every day. He's an immigrant who came from a communist country and understands what poor and starving is. I still take him out every elk season in his wheelchair. He would never poach.

No sympathy for you and your poaching. Gonna guess you didn't study too hard in HS. That seems to be a recurring theme with poachers too.


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There is some truth to this,maybe alot...

To start with,I am against wasteful poaching and have turned some in with some tense moments...

Example:
Years ago the North Idaho Silver Valley mines just shut down without much or no warning..Hundreds were without a paycheck immediately,some did not qualify for unemployment and most did not qualify for welfare with a man in the household but the families still needed to eat and feed the kids..I lived there then working green chain at a mill up the river at the time...We all talked about the need for them to feed there families and those that could help..Did...

Would I have turned one of them in for taking a game animal out of season to feed there kids...HELL NO....

But that's just me and most everyone one there at the time that new what really happened not was was put on the news by the mines...

You are one dumb, judgemental son of a bitch ! My achilles tendon was nearly cut in half on the job. I could have stayed on disabilty for my entire adult life and did not. In fact against my doctors advice I went back to work less than a year later and had to sign a waiver stating I knew the risks { Tendons never heal fully and if I broke it I'd lose control of my foot and be wearing a brace from the knee down for the rest of my life} and was willing to do so against the advice of an orthopedic specialist. That was almost 40 years ago and I've been working ever since, despite the fact that I now have several more health issues that would easily qualify me for disability, so stick it in your ass you cock sucker.