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<blockquote data-quote="TedKennedy" data-source="post: 4164626" data-attributes="member: 25419"><p>I ran into a very similar situation when I was but 21 years old, and a brand new deer hunter. I was on my Grandma's land, sitting on the side of a hill. Some guy in orange walked the road at the top of the hill and disappeared. I didn't confront him because it was deer-thirty and figured I'd see him at dark. </p><p> Watched 4 does goof around for awhile, then they headed in the direction of the stranger. Heard a shot, and I went to investigate. Poacher was standing about 250 yards to my west when I got to him. I said "did you get him?" - poacher says , "I think I hit him but we'll never find him". </p><p> I saw a huge blood trail and said "he went down this way". About fifty yards later we were both looking at a very dead, and illegal doe. I said, well, we better call the game ranger" - poacher about crapped, "I can't afford a ticket!". </p><p></p><p>That's when I asked him who he was and how he came to be hunting there. He gave me some BS story about my grandma giving him permission. I told him who I was and told him he'd best exit and forget the incident, as well as never coming back. I gutted the doe and drug her up the hill, put her in the back seat of my 1979 Buick hatchback and went to grandma's to pick up my then wife. Did I mention the Buick had a white interior?</p><p> </p><p>We drove home with the doe in the back seat, hoping not to get pulled over. Yes, I know it was illegal, but leaving it would be a sin. Looking back, I'm really glad that poacher was a coward and willing to walk away - I was a bit spicy in my younger years and would certainly have shot him if he acted in any way other than submissive. </p><p></p><p>For a little context, Oklahoma's deer herd was ridiculously small back then and does were a protected class for the most part. I view the poacher's actions as not merely lawbreaking or trespassing, but committing a moral outrage by killing a doe during that time period.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TedKennedy, post: 4164626, member: 25419"] I ran into a very similar situation when I was but 21 years old, and a brand new deer hunter. I was on my Grandma's land, sitting on the side of a hill. Some guy in orange walked the road at the top of the hill and disappeared. I didn't confront him because it was deer-thirty and figured I'd see him at dark. Watched 4 does goof around for awhile, then they headed in the direction of the stranger. Heard a shot, and I went to investigate. Poacher was standing about 250 yards to my west when I got to him. I said "did you get him?" - poacher says , "I think I hit him but we'll never find him". I saw a huge blood trail and said "he went down this way". About fifty yards later we were both looking at a very dead, and illegal doe. I said, well, we better call the game ranger" - poacher about crapped, "I can't afford a ticket!". That's when I asked him who he was and how he came to be hunting there. He gave me some BS story about my grandma giving him permission. I told him who I was and told him he'd best exit and forget the incident, as well as never coming back. I gutted the doe and drug her up the hill, put her in the back seat of my 1979 Buick hatchback and went to grandma's to pick up my then wife. Did I mention the Buick had a white interior? We drove home with the doe in the back seat, hoping not to get pulled over. Yes, I know it was illegal, but leaving it would be a sin. Looking back, I'm really glad that poacher was a coward and willing to walk away - I was a bit spicy in my younger years and would certainly have shot him if he acted in any way other than submissive. For a little context, Oklahoma's deer herd was ridiculously small back then and does were a protected class for the most part. I view the poacher's actions as not merely lawbreaking or trespassing, but committing a moral outrage by killing a doe during that time period. [/QUOTE]
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