Battled a poacher but I got my deer!

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So I ran into one of those guys that gives hunting a bad name today, but I won out. I was sitting in the woods when a rifle shot went off, stood up and saw 3 bucks running about 150 yards off. I took a shot but knew it wasn't gonna do anything, but it turned out I got three does turned towards me. I took a yearling at about 30 yards with my Franchi. Right throught the heart clean kill. Turns out the rifle shot was from a guy without blaze orange and he was NOT using a shotgun, both very strict laws in OH. But, either way we split it, I got a deer and I'm happy!

Happy hunting everyone!
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Good job. I wouldn't go so far to call the guy a poacher, unless he was tresspassing on your property. He is however breaking the law non the less.:barf:
 
Well, in OH that is a pretty strict penalty to be hunting with a rifle. They don't mess around about that because of the shear danger it puts everyone else in. He put his round right into the woods I was sitting in too, which wasn't cool. Either way, yes he was definitely hunting illegally and something should have been done. But he was out of there as soon as my blaze vest appeared from the woods.
 
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he's more of a poacher by useing a high power rifle when it's illegal in the state than he is by trespassing.you can trespass on accident,you can't accidentally take an illegal weapon hunting(unless your an idiot of course)tons of them out there.
 
I agree Sig, he definitely knew the laws too. OH is huge on a chest covering of blaze orange and they prefer to have a hat too. Plus, on top of it he was sporting a stainless thumb-holed gun with a scope (muzzle loader ain't in, so that rules that out). Plus, as soon as he spotted me and my friend (theshootist1894) both appearing out of the woods to work on my doe...he wisped away like a fart in a windstorm. None of us knew each other was out there and he knew he shouldn't be out there for what he was using. My friend and I wanted to go look for brass to nail him down but we didn't.

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I'd go so far as calling him a poacher and perhaps an idiot. Anyone in Ohio who hunts know's its illegal to do so with a rifle. Anyone who hunts without some type of blaze on is simply an idiot.
 
I stand corrected...I had always considered poaching just the act of trespassing, hunting w/o permission...so I googled it, and enlightened myself...Yes, this guy fits the definition of poacher...FULL BLOWN JERK POACHER:mad:....Here's the definition I copied and pasted from Wykopedia.com...

Poaching is illegal hunting or fishing. It may be illegal because:

The game or fish is not in season, usually the breeding season is declared as the closed season when wildlife species are protected by law.
The poacher does not possess a license.
The poacher is illegally selling the animal or animal parts for a profit.
The animal is being hunted outside of legal hours.
The hunter used an illegal weapon for that animal.
The animal or plant is on restricted land.
The right to hunt this animal is claimed by somebody.
The means used are illegal (for example, baiting a field while hunting quail, or using spotlights to stun or paralyze deer).
The animal or fish is protected by law or that it has been listed as extinct animal or an Endangered Animal (see for example the Endangered Species Act for the USA)
The animal or plant has been tagged by a researcher

here's my suggestion...He'll be back...preprogram your conservation officer's phone # in your cell. that way if you catch him or see him, you can call them and make him pay for his crime...
 
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What do you mean, shooting an extinct animal would make me a poacher...That just cracks me up. :D I thought if they were extinct, there wouldn't be any to poach...How could I prove it wasn't extinct unless I shot it and brought it in
 
Haha, the whole extinct thing is kind of asinine...

I don't know...I told the land owner that gave me permission. Sadly, the poacher seemed to be friends and had him convinced that he was law-abiding when he was definitely not. Either way, I'm not going back for fear of getting shot or pissing the guy off. I told the land owner what went down, it is his problem to pursue now.

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I heard about an incident today, where a person stole another mans deer out of the woods. A hunter shoots a nice 8 point and sees it go down. He hears other bucks grunting in a thicket so he decides to wait a good while before he goes after the dead 8 point. He waited too long. He found where the 8 point was laying dead and then a bloody trail with drag marks through the leaves. Then he finds a gut pile near a road and no deer. That is a true story, what a bummer. :eek:
 
I would be pissed...when I got my doe I drug her into a thicket so I knew where she was at and she was under cover. I kind of figured that guy might try, but he took a shot on a buck and was semi-successful. I think he had to track it but I do believe he got it. Just disappointing more then anything that someone can't even play fair during the season.
 
Well, in OH that is a pretty strict penalty to be hunting with a rifle....
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I need to stay the hell out of that state. Thanks for the warning.

On trespassers...I scattered a bunch from the old family farm a few years ago. Even had one try to argue that since his distant kin had rented crop ground, they could give him permission to hunt anywhere on the place. After a brief explanation of MO law's provision for the use of force in repelling trespassers, he gained a new perspective and meaningful momentum towards the property line.

Needless to say his clan isn't farming the cropped side of the place anymore, either.
 
I heard of a father & 14 year old son in Long Island, NY, who got arrested this weekend for shooting a brant, one week before opener. They honestly didn't know it was illegal, either, either b/c of lack of skill in identifying, or didn't look at the dates carefully enough, till the conservation officers showed up.

Makes you feel bad when it's an honest mistake - different than a true poacher.
 
I agree it is our responsiblity to read and understand the regs - but any more, you need a freakin' law degree in some cases.

My hunting partner had a minor run in with the game warden a couple of years ago. He went and hunted pheasants close to his house on public land. Turned out he needed a special permit for that area. When the warden showed up at his house, my buddy asked the warden to show him in the regs where that was stated. It took the warden more than 1/2 hour to find it. My buddy showed the warden a different section that was the opposite of what the warden was citing.

Since there was obviously a problem with the regs, the warden did not cite him, just confiscated the 2 pheasant. My buddy was relieved his guns did not get confiscated, as could have happened.
 
BIGR--that fellow is a poacher. Ill bet whatever state that was does not allow one to tag a deer you did not shoot-but the shooter has to make some reasonable effort to tag. I know 'hunters' that will not look for a deer that they did not DROP on the spot so many are 'left' in the woods. TOO bad.
 
davlandrum said:
I agree it is our responsiblity to read and understand the regs
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This is a real problem in Wisconsin.

Some areas are shotgun only. Some areas are T-zones. Sometimes we have earn a buck programs. This year the earn a buck program extends into next year; if you shoot a doe this season it counts for next season. Farmers have longer seasons in some years. Blackpowder hunters have to use a zero-magnification scope--during their designated season, but can use a traditional scope during our regular nine day gun season.

And everyone's knife is too dull. :p
 
I was sitting in the woods when a rifle shot went off, stood up and saw 3 bucks running about 150 yards off. I took a shot but knew it wasn't gonna do anything, but
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I always hate to hear this...why try to wound one..why shoot at all?
 
Pipo...wasn't really trying to do much but try and get them to turn. Besides, the slug was going to hit the dirt long before it ever reached them. The ballistics on my slugs don't even go out to 200 yards. Besides, those were also the deer that the poacher was after. The entire day was FUBAR in my opinion...there was a lot of foul things that happened, I tried to keep things as good as possible. Besides, it could have gotten a lot worse too.

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I just cut and pasted this from Wykopedia...I totally missed the whole "extinct" thing...That's pretty darn funny...how do you shoot something that does not exist? Maybe a polar bear or snow ape in antartica? LOL!!!!:D

p.s....if you don't get that last statement, read the thread on polar bear...then you'll get it...:rolleyes:
 
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