[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.

[kaboom]

Yeah, but didn't you guys also have that lifetime hunter who shot a horse out from under a girl? I just figure that any "city-slicker" who really wants to hunt, has probably been watching cable hunting shows where they make it quite clear whats being hunted. It's just a matter of either shooting whatever moves (no patience/discipline), or not knowing what you can get away with. Idiots, one and all. Oh well!