[ahadams2]

You wrote "Their claims of confusion should be rejected outright...no one is that stupid."

that is, I'm sorry to say, *not* true - when living in Marquette county in the early '80's one of our neighbors painted COW on the side of his cattle in blaze orange paint...he still had one shot by city hunters....

[Petronski]

LOL

[Petronski]

But that is still not proof the shooters thought they were deer.

[SJackson]

It doesn't matter what they thought, that's only relevant when the judge assesses the penalty. Shoot an elk, legitimately thinking it's a deer (or a wrong sex deer), that's still a violation.