I Hate Poachers

[HunterMan]

Sitting on a pasture surrounded by woods that only I can hunt. Have a large gobbler abut 400 yards across from me and he and a few hens were coming my way. When he got to about 300 yards...Boom some criminal to my left shoots him with a rifle and runs out and picks him up and runs back in the woods with me hollering at him whole time. Called the sheriff and never found him. Very mad and fustrated the deputy did not even want to go back in the woods.

[mcw3734]

I'm sorry to hear you had that experience, what a terrible way to start the season. Something like that leaves a taste in your mouth that doesn't easily go away.

People like that never go out of style, unfortunately. Glad you called law enforcement, too bad they didn't catch him.

[Zobo]

What a complete loser! I guarantee he's boasting about his "great hunt." 

[Happy]

That sucks man. I wish you would have caught him. I severely dislike those types of people. Worthless

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[The Lung]

Sounds like some of the "hunters" on SE Oklahoma.

[Guskie]

Unfortunately that sounds like a pretty typical MS turkey hunt

[Turkz39]

Call the game warden not the sheriffs office. 

[Turkz39]

You should get a little different response from a game warden, Hopefully

[Gooserbat]

Someone needs to learn a lesson about manners. 

[Gobbler-one]

Sickens me to hear something like this. I hate you had to experience it and glad you weren't in this idiots line of fire. Hopefully his deeds catch up with him and he's caught. I hope the rest of your season is more peaceful and enjoyable.  Everyone stay safe out there.

[zelmo1]

Slobs everywhere bro. You go out and have a great hunt tomorrow, good vibes your way. Z

[dzsmith]

Someone needs to learn a lesson about manners.

hard to teach a lesson, when a fine  and maybe a short suspension is "the worst" they can do to you

[Mossberg90MN]

That's pretty wild... bummer the warden didn't feel like putting any effort into it.


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[aclawrence]

These criminals need stiffer penalties. The kind that would actually make other poachers pretty fearful of getting caught. I'm sorry that happened.


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[eggshell]

They can levy some pretty hefty fines and seizures here in Ohio. You pay a standard fine, and after that you pay restitution for the animal. There's a scale of value and on deer it is set by the total inches of antler on a buck, that can get really high as in the thousands. After that they can ask for seizure of all the gear and even vehicles used and license suspensions. I think almost every state now honors License suspensions for other states. Trouble is they are slow updating the data bases. The value of a gobbler is $750.00 and that is added on top of fines. Poaching a gobbler will cost you in excess of $1,000.00 here, but idiots still do it thinking they'll never get caught. Then they whine and cry unfair when they get caught.  Always call a game warden, sheriffs only look at it as nuisance trespass and don't want to mess with it.

https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-administrative-code/rule-1501:31-16-01