is poaching real in your neck of the woods?

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fellas, im not sure ive really asked before, but in yor neck of the woods, is poaching a thing , in terms of just spotlighting from roads and taking the head or antlers only? fence jumping / trespass? driving through the "bush/Forests" mostly at night shooting stags, sometimes day driving too/lazy but not illegal until firing from car/

in NO GO zones, do people push into them more often than not?

Do you regular hunters "" or friends of yours "" report illegal hunting/spotlihting if camped in a Forest etc.?


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I live in a rural area where poaching unfortunately is very common. I know of older people who don’t have a lot of income that supposedly take deer throughout the year. I also know of guys I went to school with that just take the biggest heads they can find and don’t give a ####. It’s actually quite disappointing.
 
We get some around here. I'm not sure how much but I hear shots at night every once in a while and a few years ago I found a deer blood trail through my property in the snow during the closed season.
 
For many in this area it is a way of life...............

Anything from...........

"animals on my land are mine"

"I'm not buying an F'ing license to support the gov't"

"it is my right"

"I can do what I want"

In all honestly I would guess that about 25% of the animals taken in this province are taken illegally in one way or another.
 
SE Sask. used to be lots of "poaching" around the area where I live. I don't believe that there is much going on anymore.
 
I’m sure it happens but I’ve never seen any direct evidence of it other than the occasional trespasser. My hunting circle may not be particularly large but within it I don’t hear chatter of people doing things outside of the regs. Again, that is certainly not to say it doesn’t happen but the people I seem to find myself around place the experience and the sportsmanship of hunting above all else.
 
Happens all the time in my area in Alberta, trespassing and shooting game where you have no permission is very common, I have reported lots of people.
We have had a couple horses shot off the county road on or property(must have thought it was a moose) This is a huge problem.
Elk have been shot off the road and winched into the back of trucks(some have been caught by F&W)
So yes the poaching is alive and well here.
 
Indians around here will shoot moose all year round and leave them to rot. Rednecks bomb up and down the range roads in their jacked up diesels until they see something in a field then bail out and commence the firing squad, rarely taking time to verify legality. Then they'll drive their trucks out onto the field to go get whatever is left of the animal and probably do a few victory donuts, tearing up the field. All this without asking permission to go onto the private land.
 
leosnipes said:
Indians don't "poach". It's a privilege passed down by their ancestors and granted by our dear government for them to shoot any animals#using their now-prohib guns on their ATVs.# ##
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Ha. You're right. They're given free reign to rape the land to their heart's content. That's not poaching. ;)
 
Poaching yes. There was one case here where a father & daughter were under suspicion for headlighting. While they were poaching the ministry moved in for an arrest and he bailed, leaving his teenage daughter to take the fall. Ofcourse they did catch up with him.

Trespassing is even worse out here during the controlled hunt. For some reason certain city people think that all land outside of the city is crown. I hunt the farm land next to me, and the deal with the farmer down the road is to babysit the land for him in return.
 
My friend and I went out trail riding last weekend at a wildlife management area, and we spotted at least 4 deer carcasses in an area where people stage their atvs. I doubt they were there since the last fall, and the location suggests human intervention. Someone hauled them there to skin them.
 
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