Great White Hunters and Morality...

Do you respect a "Great Hunter" even if they poached or hunted unethically?

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Is shooting a grouse out of season poaching :?: :arrow:

Sure it is, I've done it, so I guess that makes ME a poacher.........RIGHT :?:

I'd bet alot of the members on this board have "poached" in one way or another. Bird out of season, one too many trout, shot one duck too many and passed it to yer buddy :arrow:

Hey Dosing.........How bout a poll on who has done the "P" thing or not :?: :idea:


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SuperCub said:
Is shooting a grouse out of season poaching :?: :arrow:

Sure it is, I've done it, so I guess that makes ME a poacher.........RIGHT :?:

I'd bet alot of the members on this board have "poached" in one way or another. Bird out of season, one too many trout, shot one duck too many and passed it to yer buddy :arrow:

Hey Dosing.........How bout a poll on who has done the "P" thing or not :?: :idea:


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I'll go one further.

When I was quite young, I new nothign abo9ut hunting, other than I wanted to hunt.

So I bought a long bow at a garage sale, made a string for it, bought some arrows and practiced with it until I was pretty good.

I shot a small deer with it, and we ate it. I didn't even really know I needed to buy a huntign liscence. :D
 
Poaching is poaching, and it's wrong.
If you do it, just be prepared to pay the price for it. Whether the majority members on this board have poached or not isn't a fact in issue, and it still doesnt make it right.
 
SparkyWonderDawg said:
Poaching is poaching, and it's wrong.
If you do it, just be prepared to pay the price for it. Whether the majority members on this board have poached or not isn't a fact in issue, and it still doesnt make it right.
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You're right :!:

Poaching IS poaching, which is, in fact, breaking the law.

Gotta driver's licence :?: .......................... Ever speed :?:

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Same goes for speeding super cub. If you speed, just be prepared to suffer the consequences. Hopefully it will just result in a speeding fine and not something more serious such as smoking a pedestrian or having me pick up pieces of you on the side of the road and exlplain to you family how you died "cause you were just speeding". Hey everyone does it so I guess that make it alright, right?
 
SparkyWonderDawg said:
Hey everyone does it so I guess that make it alright, right?
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When you re-read my posts, you will realize that nowhere did I say that it was "alright".

I was merely pointing out that many would condemn for one crime while accepting other legal transgressions of their own doing.

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SC, your on, give me a sec....


OK, SC, I'll say this, there is poaching and there is POACHING.

Want to put food on the table, out of season, thats poaching, unless you are a sustanance hunter.

"MY" issue is this SC. Firstly slaughtering game out of season, without a permit, without authorisation for $$$$$$$$$$$$$$. Would you kill a bear for its gall bladder and leave the carcass in the woods SC??

How about shooting an elephant so you could get the ivory and sell it???

Sorry, I hold those who destroy game for feathers or Ivory or gall bladders in a league of thier own, and sorry, whacking a bunny a little out of season isn't in the same league to me, if you plan to eat said bunny.
 
Dosing said:
Sorry, I hold those who destroy game for feathers or Ivory or gall bladders in a league of thier own, and sorry, whacking a bunny a little out of season isn't in the same league to me, if you plan to eat said bunny.
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I know that I'll sound wishy-washy, but I tend to agree with that statement. That's what judges are for....to judge the case on an individual basis and award the fitting punishment.

I think a judge will rule a lesser punishment to the "meat-hunter" than to the "cash-hunter".

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if anybody has the book 'great arc of the wild sheep', there is a chapter in there about elgin gates hunting the marco polo sheep in afganistan. in it he pursues his sheep across the border and takes it in communist china, without benefit of passport, visa, licence, etc.

poaching? or just spice in an adventure?
 
Poaching. The boundary system is there. Here in NS I can shoot a deer or game on my property, and if it runs wounded onto anothers property I am entitled to retrieve it. I am not entitled to shoot it accross the fence, and then go get it, let alone hop the NS/NB border and go deer hunting in NB just because I saw it in NS first...
 
I agree with the Moral vs Legal issue. There are times and places where taking an animal out of season is not an unforgiveable act.

Taylor, however, was a poacher of the highest order. He wasn't trying to feed his family. He was an ivory poacher, no different than the yokels that are finishing off the herds now. :evil: The only difference was the Great White Hunter myth people bestowed upon him...and that he was white. Funny how race sublty pervades people's approval or condemnation of the same act.

*donning flame-retardant suit*
 
Of course, the guys who were not white, and who collectively killed for ivory as many or more elephants than Bell and the like ever saw, weren't poachers because they weren't white? Sorry BUM, I don't think race enters into it. Bell and co were doing what sportmen the world over could only dream of doing, - living by the gun in dangerous lands.

Poaching? Well, yeah. And I'm only jealous because one, I was born too late, and two, I'm honest enough about myself to know I could not have done what those guys did.
 
Try this on for size.
What about those who want to hunt elephant or rhino or another less common species in Africa today and realise that the only way they'll be able to do so is by hunting in a place like Zimbabwe where the prices basically are a backhander to the Mugabe's cronies and the tags go out based on who will pay up. :evil:
It may be legal but it just lines the pockets of those in power. :?
Tell me, is that morality? :|
Or is it no different to those game wardens who accepted bribes in Taylor's day to look the other way?
Perhaps those planning a trip to Africa should consider which regime they're supporting when they pay a huge trophy fee???
 
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