Posted on 02/18/2016 11:30:34 AM PST by w1n1
According to "The Clarion-Ledger" four poachers have been caught in Newton County, Mississippi after police caught them shooting at a deer at night. Like many poachers, they shot at the deer from a vehicle, but this was not a typical case. These poachers allegedly shot at the deer from the cab of an 18-wheeler.
Officers were watching an area where they'd received complaints of head lighting of deer happening. They were surprised when the 18-wheeler truck showed up at 1:20 a.m. and someone shot at a deer out the window with a shotgun. Read the rest of the story here.
The southern half of Michigan requires the use of shotguns/slugs for taking deer.......
Federal Ammunition
Sabot Rounds for 10/12/16/20 and 410 are all sufficient from 50 yrds out.
I’ve been lucky enough to drop a 6-point Michigan white-tail buck from 100 yards (+/-) with a saboted 12 gauge.
Thank you and everyone else for the education. :-).
As I mentioned, I don’t know much about guns but I hope to change that in the near future.
Yes, sir!
As we like to say...South of 43.
Deer have a fatal attraction to expensive trucks and high-end luxury automobiles.
Best part of Free Republic is there is never a shortage of know-it-alls ready to educate you. ;^)
Ever hear of buck shot? Used for hunting bucks. And yes, I know both definitions for 'buck'.
Don’t know Mississippi law, but when I was young, there are a number of charges you could stick on them where I grew up. Hunting deer at night with the aid of a light, hunting from a vehicle; if they were on a road, hunting on a road. Any one would have been enough to take their guns and vehicles. If they had a big enough loan on the truck, tney might be able to buy it back.
If deer had a face like the ugliest dog winner, the laws would be shoot on sight.
Are you in Texas or MI?
A 12 gauge tactical (9 rounds)or shorty (five rounds) should be one of your first purchases—a top all-around defensive weapon.
Sounds like something my dad's uncle would have done in northern Michigan back in the 50's and 60's, only we call it "shining deer".......Uncle Al lived out in the boonies in a small town called Glennie and he was a known poacher, drunk and fighter.......In fact he was found dead lying in a snowbank at his mailbox with a bottle of whiskey in his hand. RIP Uncle Al
In deep woods especially if running beagles it's quite common and effective.
I grew up hunting the batture along the Mississippi, too. Knew several guys who ran beagles and carried double-barrels, #6 shot in the full-choke tube and buckshot in the other, just in case.
I’m pretty sure Hickok45 can hit anything he can see.
In some counties in certain states only shotguns are permitted to hunt dear.
A 12 gage slug will kill a grizzly.
My dictionary (2nd definition) defines poaching as the unlawful taking of game.
It doesnt mention basing it on how plentiful the beasts are, just that the taking is unlawful, and I gather that applies in this case (as in unlawful to take game while in your 18 wheeler).
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