Immediately after shooting, cut the tracker off with a knife (don’t touch it) and fling it into the brush as far as you can.
“Immediately after shooting, cut the tracker off with a knife (don’t touch it) and fling it into the brush as far as you can.”
There’s a difference between “laws” and “rules and regulations.” Decades ago a congressman asked the DOJ for a list of regulations, not laws passed by an elected legislature, that required a prison sentence. The DOJ responded that compiling such a list was impossible because those regulations were at all levels of government. In Florida you can go to prison for catching too many of a particular fish, or one fish that’s too small*. So, even though you could go to prison the level of proof and jurisprudence may differ a lot from say, a criminal case. Perhaps it would be better to say you were being charged by the bear, but, then again, if the granularity of the tracker indicates otherwise...like he was standing still, you may end up in prison anyway if that is the penalty stated in the regulation.
* What happens to you is entirely up to the responding officer. I witnessed Fish and Wildlife stopping a boat in the keys. If you take too many lobsters or they are too small, then the officer can seize your boat and diving equipment. The officer had decided to seize the lobsters and write a ticket. But the boater, an obvious New Yorker, gave him so much lip that the officer changed his mind, seized the boat and all the diving equipment. There are a lot of obvious lessons here, but aside from not calling the officer names one is that there’s way too much power delegated to various agencies.