Originally Posted by
Chilly
Another government intervention. They know what is best for you!!! They know what is best for your land!! They know what is best for your family!!! Just shut up and pay your taxes and ask them for permission to do ANYTHING on your OWN PRIVATE LAND!!
I agree game laws need to be in place and enforced, but who is to say what is a "cull" buck. Most "cull" bucks in other places, Kansas, Texas, Illinois are "Big Bucks" where I hunt.
Your nephew should have just lied and said he killed it in the other county. It would be hard for the Game Warden to prove exactly where it was killed.
Side note, your neighbor may be a SOB, but your nephew broke the law, as dumb as it is, and then bragged about it on social media. DO NOT THINK FOR ONE SECOND that our wonderful nanny state gov't does not monitor these sites.
Deer hunting has gotten out of hand ridiculous with rules, regulations and seasons. Bow, Muzzle loader, pistol, rifle season all coming in and out. This is great if you are rich and do not have a job and can hunt all the time. It really sucks to have a free week end to hunt, but you have to have 1000 dollar worth of equipment to follow the law and have a specialized weapon just to shoot a doe for meat. Not to mention the amount of money for leases, game cameras, feeders , food plots, dog feed , the list goes on and on . Then you throw in others who are jealous or terrible neighbors that think they own your property as well and want to police it like it was their own.
Things change, I realize this, but I remember the times when a fellow would kill a buck of HIS lifetime, he would get congratulated. Now it is like you have to keep it secret that you killed a good one so nobody gets mad. I have heard this at the skinning rack on numerous occasions. "That would have been a good one next year", " I let that deer walk last week", "I have been hunting that deer all year" and then the hunter that did not kill it stomps off mad. It is just silly.
TV shows and all the money being made off of the "wild" animals will kill this sport, or make it so expensive that only the elite will be able to afford it. And I say "wild" loosely. When you feed them year round out of a feeder and then plant crops specifically for the deer, that takes the wild out of them I DO NOT CARE WHAT YOU SAY!! Then when you hunt for them over the feeder, from a heated air tight stand, what have you really done? Are you the great and mighty hunter when you kill one over corn? That type of hunting is fine for survival, but IT IS NOT CHALLANGEING TO SHOOT A DEER WITH THEIR HEAD IN A CORN PILE.
My rant is through, unless someone wants to talk about the ethics of the new hunter vs the old hunter.
Chilly