[kaboom]

Pleeease stop using the city slickers term for these guys. Even if these guys were from an urban area, chances are that they know what elk look like and couldn't have cared less at the time.

Why is it that when an unknown out-of-towner poaches, they are called a city slicker? Yet when a local guy poaches, he's just putting food on the table? (not that these guys are charged with poaching, but a similar deal)

[timberlandko]

Dunno how it is in Virginia, kaboom, but here in The Northwoods, if a local gets busted for poaching, its usually a lowlife with a history of screwing up. Yjere are exceptions, of course, but that's pretty much the rule. If anything, the out-of-towners are being given more than reasonable consideration.

Such incidendents aren't all that uncommon, either; one farm over from me, a llama was shot last year. I'm sure the shooter, from a Minneapolis suburb, mistook it for any other seven-foot tall, black-and-white deer.

[ahadams2]

I've never known locals to get away with poaching deer...I've lived in rural Wisconsin, rural Arizona, and now rural Missouri, and as timberlandko says it's the usual lowlife types who get busted for poaching... Also almost anyone who has lived in a rural area for any length of time has found himself dealing with what might be politely referred to as naive and unprepared city hunters... It's not so bad here in western Missouri, but back in Wisconsin I can't tell you how many times I had to turn around trespassers from the public hunting ground next to our land because nobody ever told them that holding your compass directly in front of your rifle barrel results in either North or South being directly in front of you (doh!)....