Llama 
Posted on 01/24/2009 12:57:17 PM PST by decimon
BILLINGS - A New York hunter may be feeling a bit sheepish after mistaking a feral llama in Paradise Valley for a Rocky Mountain elk, but he apparently did not violate any laws.
Rusty Saunders, of Fort Edward, N.Y., called a Fish, Wildlife and Parks warden in Livingston in November to turn himself in after shooting the llama, according to Mel Frost, FWP information officer in Bozeman.
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All I can say is, “if you don’t know what you’re shooting at... DON’T SHOOT!”
hmm.. i’m not sure whether i want to laugh at the comical side of this or be sad for the death of the llama.
i think it will be comedy. :-)
Llama
I just did a search on feral llamas and it looks like they're becoming a problem. Even in Maine. People get them and then turn them loose.
Sack the llama shooters
how anyone can mistake a llama for an elk is beyond me. i think the guy needs his eyes checked. or he had the scope on his rifle backwards...
I don’t get it. Is it not Feral Llama season? Or was its name Dalai?
Give the hunter credit. He realized he made a mistake and did the right thing by turning himself in.
Blacktails are small compared to many other deer in the U.S. The smallest legal bucks field dressing to only a little more than half the weight of the largest Midwestern Whitetails, and the bigger Texas Muley bucks.
After some hunting, he came back late one morning to what was then called "Outdoor Recreation", which was headquarters for hunting management on the base, saying, "Wow, you folks have the biggest deer I've ever seen ...could any body help me? I can't even drag it..."
He shot a protected Tule Elk.
The poor dumb sap was fined heavily and lost his State hunting privileges for 5 years. I think they let him keep his truck. Nowadays, the Fish & Game will take the gun, the truck, what-have-you, when someone is caught flagrantly poaching. Helps keep folks honest, I guess.
I'm starting a nonprofit organization to help relieve this horrendous tragedy. If llama owners would only have their llamas spayed, such tragedies wouldn't occur. Wayward llamas have many more offspring than what the ecosystems normally sustain, requiring our charitable intervention. Give a home to a llama. They make great pets and offer a transportation alternative to bicycling or Amish taxi service. Just send your donations to Jim Robinson to help llama research by supporting the Free Republic website operations.
Be kind, care for a llama near you.
Will the real Elmer Fudd please stand for your marksman award.
Dammit, somebody needs to be charged for shooting that llama...! This is Amurica, round here we charge people with crimes. How come nobodies in jail? How come he still has is truck, his house, his wife and dammit his p@nis. This is Amurica dammit and I expect somebody somewhere to be charged with a crime. AMURIKA F yeah!
Firearms don’t kill. Buck Fever kills!
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So. Llamas are edible too!
(Never tried it myself.)
Tastes just like dromedary.
Put it in a plastic and then empty a jar of "Adolph's Meat Tenderizer" into the bag. Seal it and put it in the fridge over night. Cook it and the drown it in "A-1" sauce and it will taste just like a living dromedary.
It ain't got no jump if it ain't got no hump.
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