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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2018 0:48:40 GMT
Neighbor caught a couple of poachers "road hunting" on our road.
Thank God for a good game warden. The neighbor was on his way down from the Ridge, called us with the info on the poachers, we contacted our game warden, and he's on it.
I wish I'd had my paintball marker with me. I would have covered those poachers and their white truck with lovely bright day-glo pink paintballs. Explain THAT to the game warden. Ha!
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Nov 12, 2018 2:16:51 GMT
I hope they catch the poachers. They very well might, how stupid do you have to be to risk losing your guns/vehicle/money to shoot a deer you could have asked permission to shoot legally. I'd guess people who do that already have some criminal convictions behind them, if so, it's jail time too.
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Post by joebill on Nov 12, 2018 4:15:28 GMT
Poaching is like accepting the penalty for homicide for stealing a can of sardines. Only idiots would attempt it, only corrupt officials would fail to prosecute. Please concentrate on the smart folks out there. The morons will drive you as nuts as they are. repeat after me....."Only moral lives achieve moral outcomes.....as for the rest, some go to heaven, some go to hell, the rest just go "POOF!".....as told to me by Pete Nataro, hit man for Joe Bananno.
Never ever fear that the evil will not be punished. Just fear that we might be amongst them..... Joe
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2018 12:44:48 GMT
They will be punished in eternity for sure, maybe here, but no one had better be hunting my land and think they will get away with it.
I have livestock to protect. Some of them are the same color as deer.
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Post by beowoulf90 on Nov 12, 2018 13:19:11 GMT
I hate poachers and trophy hunters (by this I mean those that shoot an animal for the trophy "rack" only and leave the rest lay.)
I've walked our property and have found more than one carcass with an arrow or gun shot in them, minus the neck and head.. This tell me that they shot the deer and only took the neck and head so they could mount it on the wall.. That irks me to no end.. If you didn't want the meat you could at least have donated it or left us know.. But I suspect that the deer were shot illegally, thus they only took the "trophy". As to poachers I've had to fire upon some in the past. They were "Jack-lighting" (spot lighting them in the wee hours of the morning), but that is another story..
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Post by gob on Nov 12, 2018 13:38:03 GMT
I hate poachers and trophy hunters (by this I mean those that shoot an animal for the trophy "rack" only and leave the rest lay.) I've walked our property and have found more than one carcass with an arrow or gun shot in them, minus the neck and head.. This tell me that they shot the deer and only took the neck and head so they could mount it on the wall.. That irks me to no end.. If you didn't want the meat you could at least have donated it or left us know.. But I suspect that the deer were shot illegally, thus they only took the "trophy". As to poachers I've had to fire upon some in the past. They were "Jack-lighting" (spot lighting them in the wee hours of the morning), but that is another story.. If you found the carcass on your property and they didn't have your permission to hunt there, they were poaching. So it was taken illegally.
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Post by joebill on Nov 12, 2018 14:59:19 GMT
I inherited some metal signs that read "Danger, keep out! Rifle Range!"....I could send you one, Pony, or we could all team up and order a bunch of them. I think I am going to have some made that are in Spanish. My neighbor just found 15 wets in her barn this morning and they are grabbing over 200 per day over in Playas, an abandoned smelter town just down the road that emptied when the smelter closed down. Things are heatin' up!.....Joe
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Post by beowoulf90 on Nov 12, 2018 19:48:09 GMT
I hate poachers and trophy hunters (by this I mean those that shoot an animal for the trophy "rack" only and leave the rest lay.) I've walked our property and have found more than one carcass with an arrow or gun shot in them, minus the neck and head.. This tell me that they shot the deer and only took the neck and head so they could mount it on the wall.. That irks me to no end.. If you didn't want the meat you could at least have donated it or left us know.. But I suspect that the deer were shot illegally, thus they only took the "trophy". As to poachers I've had to fire upon some in the past. They were "Jack-lighting" (spot lighting them in the wee hours of the morning), but that is another story.. If you found the carcass on your property and they didn't have your permission to hunt there, they were poaching. So it was taken illegally. That would be true.. But then I have no respect for either poachers or "trophy" hunters as I described..
Neither will gain any sympathy from me and are a bane to hunters..
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Post by ceresone on Nov 13, 2018 0:06:13 GMT
neighbor told my husband he would hunt wherever he wanted, there is a valley--then a hill behind the house. one season, there he came up the valley. for a little fat man he could really run when i started sighting my rifle on the hillside. around here we just pray our animals survive, my horses are in a pasture next to the road. last year, my mare was surrounded by deer on the hillside. when i started the jeep, she started running them--i suppose they were friends
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Post by joebill on Nov 13, 2018 1:51:42 GMT
Y'all need one of these;
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Post by DEKE on Nov 13, 2018 3:02:51 GMT
we moved the cattle today from one of the front fields to the one behind the house. Always before they would chase the Gator the same as those cattle chase the RC car. This time the Cows wouldn't follow the Gator because the calves didn't want to leave the only home they have ever known.
I had to walk the few hundred feet with a feed bucket in hand, giving the cows chunks of pineapple peels. That's so sweet, they were willing to leave their calves behind. Half way to the back pasture, it started raining buckets, but you can't stop when the job is half done.
One of the cows would occasionally give me a little bump with her head and slobber on my arms with her big wet tongue just in case I failed to notice she needed more pineapple. Once the cows got to the good fresh grass that hasn't been grazed since July, they started running and bucking in happiness. DW, who is apparently part border collie, herded the calves and got them moving. Once they got past the gate of their old pasture, they ran to catch up to their moms. Happy cows.
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Post by ceresone on Nov 25, 2018 0:12:10 GMT
What I despise more than poachers is.. I live a short way off the blacktop in 2 directions. Twice this her. Again is a deer carcass along side the road with only the head cut off
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Post by joebill on Nov 25, 2018 1:58:03 GMT
That takes a real idiot on so many levels it is remarkable. I never was one for trophies anyway, but to have one hanging on the wall to look at when you know full well it got there by a dishonorable act that nobody sane could possibly take pride in makes you wonder what those people have between their ears.
I ran across a carcass that was shot badly and the guy never found it or never tried and it died in my work area and went bad. Very big rack. By the time it was down to mostly skin and bones I twisted the skull and rack off of the spine and put it under the load, gave it to a guy to bleach and display as a skull mount if he wanted to, but next thing you know he is asking the taxidermist if he can somehow mount the nice rack to the head of the doe he shot and make a head mount out of it.....geez.....Joe
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Nov 25, 2018 11:22:30 GMT
joebill, That's nearly as bad as some of these "Trophy Hunt" clubs, where they charge thousands of dollars to shoot a carefully raised buck that you could just as easily hand feed. Sorry, that's not hunting, and there shouldn't be any pride in basically shooting a pet.
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Post by DEKE on Nov 25, 2018 14:57:13 GMT
When I was searching for the place I have now, I gave serious thought to a hunt club near Tallahassee that was near bankruptcy. It was a great price, 500 acres, 10' fenced all around. There was an entertainment barn set up to keep the "hunters" watching football, drinking, shooting pool, and fishing on the stocked ponds. It had a processing station for butchering with walk in frig and freezers. It was an impressive set up. Beautiful house, rolling land, a horse barn and pastures, most everything on our wants and needs list.
They had imported captured bucks from PA because FL deer are smaller for some reason. There were supposedly 200-250 deer on that 500 acres so of course the feed bill was quite hefty. And it took a full time ranch hand to keep the critters fed and the facilities repaired. The deer weren't hand tame, but they knew trucks brought the feed to the stations. As we toured the property in a truck, the deer followed us constantly. There was no need to be stealthy and quiet to stalk a deer. In fact, the louder you were, the more deer came to see what was going on.
I like venison a lot. But I can't imagine paying way over super market beef prices for venison but that's what I figure these canned hunt people are doing. A hunt wouldn't have taken more than 5 minutes on that ranch and the hunter would have paid a few thousand for ?100? lbs of meat. I just don't get what the attraction is.
Because we liked the house and land and the price was seemingly so far below market, we gave the place consideration. We didn't know what to do with the deer if we bought the place. An extension agent told us that because of the wild game keeping permit that was necessary to own the property, it would be illegal to simply drop some fence and let the deer go. There was also the problem that the deer had been fed for so long they probably couldn't survive on their own. It turned out to be a business that didn't make enough money to pay the bills and it was difficult to get out of the business. I didn't want to buy someone else's problems so we dropped that one from our consideration list.
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