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Way to go, O-HI-O!

Riddle me this Batman. How were the authorities able to determine they had poached 19, and possibly 31 deer, before they were arrested? Why were they not arrested much, much earlier?
 
Way to go, O-HI-O!

Riddle me this Batman. How were the authorities able to determine they had poached 19, and possibly 31 deer, before they were arrested? Why were they not arrested much, much earlier?

Maybe they guessed based on hides, antlers, etc. found during the investigation? Or the idiots talked too much? Bragging often leads to miscreants giving the police free info about what they've been up to.
 
Guy i know bragged about the same here in SW Oh. bar.

2 days later they raided his house, took meat, guns and no hunting
for 10 yrs.

Add:this guy was on the cover of like 3-4 outdoor hunting/
fishing mags.
 
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Maybe they guessed based on hides, antlers, etc. found during the investigation? Or the idiots talked too much? Bragging often leads to miscreants giving the police free info about what they've been up to.

I'm thinking maybe Keystone Cops. LOL
 
Distant relation of late wife#1 lived in Iowa and had a big issue with poachers on their land. The story went that there was this huge Whitetail buck on their land, likely a record breaker, and every yea-hoo from miles was after it and didn't care where it was when they got sights on. After a few near shooting confrontations, the family got together and organized their own hunt, and had the youngest there take the deer. That's when the abuse REALLY started, with the poacher types whining that some kid had got to take their (???) deer of a lifetime. Idjits.
 
If I ever did poach in my early years of raising a family, working in a profession that had several months each year with no work or income, I said IF, I would never consider such a thing nowadays. However, I have tried for 40 unsuccessful years to draw a moose tag though they are often sleeping in my yard, eating my trees. Colorado keeps $50 each unsuccessful try. Seeing that a moose tag is $400 and Colorado has been keeping $50 each year, my math and logic says every 8 years I have paid for a moose tag so I should be able to take a moose. Sounds logical to me, however my neighbor, a game warden has different thoughts on the subject.
 
If I ever did poach in my early years of raising a family, working in a profession that had several months each year with no work or income, I said IF, I would never consider such a thing nowadays. However, I have tried for 40 unsuccessful years to draw a moose tag though they are often sleeping in my yard, eating my trees. Colorado keeps $50 each unsuccessful try. Seeing that a moose tag is $400 and Colorado has been keeping $50 each year, my math and logic says every 8 years I have paid for a moose tag so I should be able to take a moose. Sounds logical to me, however my neighbor, a game warden has different thoughts on the subject.

Would you please keep your disrespecting moose wanderers out of our capital? Wandering bull moose is captured in downtown Santa Fe, moved to habitat in northern New Mexico | AP News
 
Poaching big game is hard to investigate all the way to conviction. Who shot? What weapon? What's the evidence? Not easy, and the Game & Fish officers I worked with really had their work cut out for them.

My father was a game warden for 35 years. In the early days, without a confession, or an eyewitness to the actual act, convictions were hard to come by. Hard to tell if the meat in a guy's freezer was taken legally or not. Modern wildlife forensic laboratories changed that. DNA analysis transformed some of the game warden's ability to tie a suspect to a crime.
Often times, in the old days, a known poacher wasn't cited due to lack of evidence. However, many of them broke other laws that were easier to prove. Hunting with the aid of a motor vehicle, travelling on closed roads, or even drunk driving are some of the things they cited or arrested people for, when they knew they were poaching.
 
When my brother and I had our old family farm in Harlem Twp., I ask if he had any tree stands set up. No was the answer. I took every stand that was manufactured, Blew up with buckshot every home-made stand. I also drank lots of water after eating onions and garlic and marked my territory everywhere I could!

I'm pretty sure one of the neighbors was the guilty party! We quit finding gut piles when he was locked up for OMVI. My son was one of the overseers!

Ivan
 
Not uncommon for poachers to come from families-generations of poachers. They feel genuinely entitled and have no respect for others property. I knew a couple of those families and they were all-around sleaze bags.
Some are fixated on trophies. There was a story a couple guys that were sweeping just about every fishing competition and winning big money and even boats. They were stuffing fish parts and lead weights down their fishes' throats.
Some offshore tournaments with seven figure prizes will see contestants shoving hoses up a Blue Marlin's arse.
 
License suspended for 10 years? So what??
You don’t need a license to poach.
Some serious time behind bars at least delays poaching.

Some are not going to play by the rules no matter what the game…
 
A while back, met a Texian who owns a Ranch up near del Norte, CO.
Big time 22 Jet Shooter. His 53 was having some Throat Erosion.
This young Bull Elk persisted in jumping into a corral and eating his cattle feed.
So one night, Ambush time. He took it down from the barn with the 53.
Butchered, boned, wrapped, into the freezer.
Everything else was dropped into a mine shaft, whose location is lost to time.
 

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