Also, the property was owned by one of the men arrested.
Aside from hunting out of season, I'm scratching my head on this. While not condoning the behavior, it WAS private property owned by one of the hunters.
Please note that I COMPLETELY understand that spotting is illegal and really "unfair" for hunting, but I'm focused solely on the fact that this was done on private land. I don't get how this is bad outside of the use of lights, which, let's be honest, look like LED flashlights more than the big Halogen spots or KC lights on a truck.
The king’s deer do not belong to you, and may not be hunted without his permission, even if they are on your own property.
In Colorado the government says they own the deer and all other game so they license and “manage” the hunts. Some Native Americans have other rights to special seasons of their own. This comes form centuries of micromanagement.
Deer are not private. They are public.
Shoot, shovel, shutup.
Or...
Lights out, shoot quietly, don’t say anything.
Betcha white males. Just saying.
In New York, it doesn’t matter whose land it is, you can only hunt when the bureaucrats want you to.
I think that even applies to picking up road kill “out of season.” I once hit a deer with my car, and a guy with a pick-up truck behind me saw what happened. He asked if he could take the carcass. So he did a quick look around to see if cops were coming, wrestled the (dead) animal into his truck, and off he went.
This is the same county that had a retired LEO kill a texter in a theatre, and yet they have time to harass people on their own land.
We used to have two large herds of deer romaing around the wooded neighborhood, which is bordered by BLM in three sides.
In one year, they are all gone, down to about 3.
Why?
A group of poachers killed them all. They would shoot any time, day or not, hunting season or no, and leave injured ones to die painfully. The house they rented they abandoned, and it was filty and full of rotten deer parts.
They moved to another house in the valley and are apparently doing the same thing there.
If you are hunting on private land without permission from the landowner, you are stealing his deer..............................
Wild game is considered a natural resource. You own the property but unless you raised the deer you do not own them.
Now if you raised the deer then you have the right to harvest them as you wish.
Also, the property was owned by one of the men arrested.
Aside from hunting out of season, I'm scratching my head on this. While not condoning the behavior, it WAS private property owned by one of the hunters.
I remember a poaching club where I was living in Tennessee that the members would simply kill deer year round just for the antlers. They'd leave the meat.
I hate poachers. And yes, even though the deer are killed on private property, they (the deer) still belong to the state.
I believe deer are considered public property and can only be hunted with a license.
Cattle and horses are considered private property.
I believe the state game laws deal with this issue.
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