How is this not entrapment?
It's all about catching people who wantonly break 2 or 3 major laws at once while poaching.
I have seen the robo-deer many times. They are ALWAYS located in a position where the easiest access would be a totally illegal shoot. Firing from a paved road/ main thoroughfare in farm country, or a snaky highway. You are at the least blocking traffic, and the roads they set up on are in no way a questionable farm road or trail.
I had a friend who was with a guide, and the guide TOLD him to take the deer. He said 'no- we are on a road. No way.' The guide took him up the road, and they commenced a stalk. When my friend came to see the buck from a now 'legal' angle, he did not like that the deer had not moved......not one inch in 5 minutes. Just bobbing it's head, and dipping to feed. He told the guide he did not want to take it.
The guide promptly shot it. And, the wardens came out and got to sorting thru their stuff.
The wardens hounded him and the guide trying to hit them with trespass, but the guide did have a permit to take hunters on the land. The guide had his tag. From the angle the guide shot, the road was not visible, nor in the line of fire.
In the end, they cut them loose- but my friend was done with the guide. Had he listened to the guide originally??? They BOTH would have been on the hook, in a huge way.
The robo-deer in Ca. are fairly convincing in the northern half of the state. In the south....... deer simply do not stand around in daylight for much of anything for more than 1.3 seconds without moving on.
Utah robo-deer were very convincing, as were Wisconsin robo-deer. (Except the Wisconsin decoy had many, many holes in it..... Indians from the reservation right by there have little regard for white man's game laws......)
