Reporting Unethical/Illegal Hunting Posts

down the ear canal to the brain
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Or a shot straight up the nose. thats how i got mine. of course it was very close quarters, the bear ambushed me from behind a tree while i was walking my pet ferret......
 
OldBill,

Sorry, I got sidetracked with the humor...

If I had a reasonable means of confirming an actual violation occurred, I would do my best to confirm it and then turn it over to LE.

Ethics is something we can try to influence by responses to the info, as I think you did.

I can encourage changes to the regs both as an individual and as a member of various hunting organizations to make them better from a ethics standpoint (caliber limits, for example). And soon, hopefully encourage ethical behaviour as a hunter safety instructor.

Personal ethics are a constantly evolving thing, as we are influence by our environment, hopefully in the right direction. I know I did some stuff "back in the day" that was legal, but would not meet my standard of ethical now.
 
did it happen during legal hunting season?
did he atleast use the minimum weapon size and caliber allowed?
did he have a legal hunting license if needed?

if the answers to the questions is yes
then i guess he is is safe.

i saw a p/u truck many years ago with a dead deer in the bed, and an uncased bow with 2 arrows in the quiver. it was the middle of july. so wherever he shot it it was not legal. the guy was i guess on his way somewhere was driving it. so i wrote the tag number and make and model of the p/u truck down and as soon as i got home i called the hotline. it turns out they found him and the deer. as far as i know he got arrested for poaching. i only got a return phone call saying that they did find the owner of the truck along with a deer. that was not a roadkill. they did find an arrow wound or two in the carcass. now would i make that phone call if i saw something like that again. yup i would sorry but i would.

it makes me sick to see time and time again someone doing something and getting away with it, thats illegal though knowing darn well if i did it i would be caught and arrested or worse. i don't like stepping on toes i don't like to be a bad guy. and to those members of TFL.com who do right thank you i am glad to be a member.
 
it makes me sick to see time and time again someone doing something and getting away with it, thats illegal though knowing darn well if i did it i would be caught and arrested or worse
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I'm not sure that's the best reason to do the right thing.
 
i understand. but i wonder if it someone else that had seen the truck would have called it in to the hotline if i didn't see it or call. i only hope that in others eyes i did the right thing. they guy could've very easily covered it up and it would'nt have been seen. i don't think its illegal to ride around with a bow hanging in the back window of a vehicle. or with one cased or uncased lying in your backseat or in your trunk. whether its hunting season or not. like i said before i don't want to step on toes.
 
I am in the group that does not consider it poaching to feed my family with an out of season deer. Will they ever find my freezer to hold in excess of the 4 deer limit (in florida)? NEVER! Am I a BUBBA? I don't think so as a BUBBA has a minimum weight and I am far under that. Am I a redneck? YOU BETCHER BOOTS!
I only buy a sportsman license if I am going out to hunt "FER FUN". I did not deer hunt this year so I did not... If I am feeding my family I don't have to drive far and will cover the deer. I likely would do it at night and it will be frozen by daybreak.*

*anything sounding illegal is written as fiction for entertainment reasons only... I never break laws of any kind!
Brent
 
That's kinda what I thought when I started reading this thread...I wonder if he ate the pig. It's not poaching if you feed the fam with it, ethically speaking at least.
 
ActivShootr said:
The question was if a 9mm is legal for hunting big game in Tennessee. IT IS!!!! You are beating the sh*t out of a dead horse and are way off topic
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The illegal taking of game is "poaching." This could mean taking game outside of the designated season, shooting too near a road, using a rifle in a shotgun zone, hunting after dark, and at one time in Wisconsin--carrying a pistol and a rifle at the same time.

In fact, a 9mm in Wisconsin is always illegal. The DNR has designated just what a "power factor" is for a pistol, and also the barrel length. I don't mean to speak in generalities, but this means you are limited to magnum firearms with barrels of more than five inches and turn-bolt pistols of rifle calibers.

In fact, at one time the 10mm Auto was not legal.

You might think this is ridiculous--I'm inclined to agree, I think there are too many juvenile rules and regualtions.

However, what you might think is normal can get you arrested here--for poaching. And they'll take your firearm, your car, levee a hefty fine and you might lose your right to hunt for a number of years.

And believe it or not, we still have a large number of "hunters" who poach deer all year round, near roads, in the dark with huge lights and illegal firearms.
 
First off, ethics are subjective. So leave that out of it. Second of all, you're not even sure of the law regarding pigs in Tennessee. Do you want to get somebody busted so badly that you are reaching for things that you aren't even sure are illegal?

Limit it to known violations of the law, that are very serious (dead pigs aren't, so far as criteria for internet snitching is concerned), and you think are more than just BSing on the internet. Otherwise let it be man.

If you think there might be credible information of murder or human trafficing and slavery, then yeah let the authorities in on it and let THEM figure it out. Sheesh.
 
Sice we are barely getting by, a deer would free up a hundred dollars to buy gas and other food.
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Doesn't that logic apply to everyone? So everyone who needs to save on thier food bill because they need that money for other things can go shoot as many as they need to?

Illegal is illegal. The guy who robs the 7-11 to feed his family would have the same justification. Or would that somehow be different?

Besides, if I still have a computer, and internet access, (cable ?, cell phone ?) how desperate am I really?

And, according to some, the Democrats are just giving away money in all their social programs, so go getcha some!!

Between my garden, canning food, 1 deer a year, some elk meat from whoever got one in my group, salmon, crab, clams - all taken legally with the proper license and tags - I keep my food costs under control, even with 4 kids. A lot easier to take care of my family legally than to try and take care of them from jail.
 
I don't know that this is exactly on topic but it reminds me..

When I was in my teens and early twenties I killed dozens of domestic hogs with a 22 rimfire. Usually one shot between the eyes, but occassionally the skull would deflect the bullet if the angle was wrong, and another shot would be required.The hog was subsequently stuck, put in the scalder, cleaned and gutted. Hams were salted down and put in the smokehouse. We gave the "lights" away. Made sausage, bacon, fatback, lard, TENDERLOIN. Even ate the head.

I see no inherent magical difference between a wild animal and a domestic one and can't see that one wants to live any less than the other. Mother nature made this arrangement but it is not pleasant to dwell on.

Anyhow, it would be good for the anti-hunter to watch this procedure or similar at the slaughterhouse before he sits in the nice restaurant and eats his ham and eggs, while discussing the cruelty of hunters.
 
Robbing a store is a VIOLENT FELONY CRIME!
Anyone that wishes to go hungry is free to do so. At anytime I may face going hungry I will remedy the malady.:D
And will do so before too weak to load my "groceries" in the truck...
Brent
 
OK, change "robbing a store" to

1) stealing an ATV and selling it
2) siphoning gas for the truck
3) killing a cow and butchering it

Only difference between killing a cow and poaching a deer is that the cow belongs to one person, the deer belongs to everyone.

Besides, HD, how many hogs can you get with a license? Achieves the same effect.

We get one deer a year, which doesn't last very long in my freezer, but I would give up my guns or hunting rights forever just for another deer.
 
Actually I can take unlimited hogs daily year around with my permit but must be on private land and I do not have access to enuff places so i sold off my baydogs as they were not getting run enuff. Plus to get to and from the couple places which i had permission on cost me 45 dollars in gas and than it is not a sure thing. If a baydog or bulldog gets gutted it may cost 4-8 hundred to save it at a vet.
The other crimes listed are crimes against an individual. A doe taken out of population is good for the herd so I ain't even affecting individual hunters in a negative way.*
*to be considered fictitious for entertainment only...
Brent
 
The illegal taking of game is "poaching." This could mean taking game outside of the designated season, shooting too near a road, using a rifle in a shotgun zone, hunting after dark, and at one time in Wisconsin--carrying a pistol and a rifle at the same time.
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Taken fron the Tennessee Hunting & Trapping guide:

"Private lands - Public Hunting Areas (see PHAs, page 71) are considered
private land. Open year round, except in holdings on Catoosa
and South Cherokee where the season is open with the statewide
deer seasons. Dogs prohibited. No limit, either sex. During statewide
deer seasons, only weapons legal for hunting deer may be used for
hunting feral hogs."

Also taken from TN Hunting & Trapping guide big game legal equipment section:

"Handguns using any centerfire ammunition, except those with multiple shot, and having a barrel length of four inches or more, in all counties except where regulated by legislative acts."

The hunter was well within the confines of the law. He was not hunting out of season nor was he using illegal equipment.
 
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