[Frumious Bandersnatch]

I'm not excusing the guy, but Fish and Game has had a reputation of arrogance in the past. If Pogue did indeed threaten him, he overstepped his bounds.

Of course, finishing the guys off with the rifle was murder.

[stormer]

If I recall the Olsen book (and I have it around here somewhere), at the time most game agents in Idaho didn't cary sidearms.

[stormer]

Oops - found the book. Sidearms had been optional until shortly before this incident - they were required. Bill Pouge, one of the victims, had been a former police officer and had lobbied Idaho Fish & Game to make sidearms mandatory. I can't believe I found the book, let alone the page with this info.