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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sandintoes who wrote (150714)	8/28/2007 9:41:39 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 225578

It's pretty easy to catch poachers, and usually the states are very aggressive about it. People don't like poachers, so if they see something going on they will turn it in. A buddy said somebody owned a place in Montana and had a vehicle registered in Montana, but lived and voted someplace else. This fella bought a resident hunting license and hunted with it, thinking that nobody would notice. The state has a very good computer program that cross checks license holders with tax returns and so forth. They caught the guy, and as a consequence he lost hunting rights for life, as did his son and wife, and paid over $20 grand in fines. I'm not entirely facetious in saying that it would be easier to get away with murder in Montana than it would be to get away with poaching. Game wardens are pretty savvy. They assume that the people they deal with will be armed (not because they are hunters, but because they might be poachers -- and there is a huge difference between the two), so they are always armed themselves. The game warden in my area is a woman, and believe me I would not tackle her even if she didn't have a gun and I did. She doesn't mess around. Every once in a while a game warden gets killed in the line of duty.