cheygriz
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What's your point? You took a nice hike. That's pretty awesome.
And put a lot of deer and elk in the freezer.
What's your point? You took a nice hike. That's pretty awesome.
And put a lot of deer and elk in the freezer.
The wardens talking about hunting being a privelige... I figure that's because of the license requirement and licenses can get revoked for any of several illegalities. But, as licensed hunters, we have the privelige of exercising the right when/where/how it legally/ethically fits. This isn't like medieval England... getting caught "poaching" a deer would get your hand summarily amputated... you'd never pull a longbow again. Care to compare and contrast on that one?
Poaching a deer still carries consequences. Around here it's a fine of $1800, a loss of the weapon and any vehicle used to transport the poached animal, along with a three year suspension of all hunting and fishing privileges. Not a cutting off of the hand, but not a slap on the wrist either. Unlike back ion medieval times, most deer poached nowadays are outta greed for a huge rack, just the thrill of killing something, or in a vain attempt to prove to peers that one is a successful hunter.
No I don't know you, but I know folks in general. I know when folks make two statements about a warden in a post and then want to argue that the warden is incorrect in both, there isn't much respect there. I also know that what one writes in a post and how others interpret that post, can completely different. Probably the same as the statements made by the warden. How he meant them and how others interpret them, could and may be, two different thoughts. I read the warden's statements as asking us, as hunters, to always attempt to portray hunting in a positive way and to not do anything when hunting, to diminish that positive image. The privilege of hunting as presented by the warden is much different than the hunting by the "privileged" back in Medieval times. We as licensed hunters do not have any privilege as to exercising any right deciding when something is legal or not. Ethics yes, legal....no.