Exactly, when I was about 14 I was hunting with my dad (who was in a wheelchair) on private property (we had permission)when three trucks drove up on the road that boardered the property. As the trucks were moving three guys stared shooting, killing three huge bucks right under my dads nose. We worked very hard to find property for my dad to hunt on, it's so frustrating to work so hard only to have it taken away by selfish people. We came to find out later that one of the guys was a police officer (he disrespected the title he held) from a nearby town. We tried to report them, but nothing ever came of it. Has stuck with me all these years.

Wht would any one want to poach go down to your local sporting good store and get a license for $12. IDIOTS!!

Poaching is wrong and SICK!!! go get a license or go to jail

I'm not into snitchin' but back in Tonganoxie,KS I was in an unnamed gun shop that sits directly across the street from the police station.Anyway the unknown named owner of the store ( who happens to be a Tonganoxie,KS police officer) blatently told me stories of him shooting animals from the truck and his cousin poppin' off turkeys with laser sights from rediculous distances with rediculous guns.And he told me all of this the first time I was ever in the store.Not to bright to brag about that kind of thing but then me telling y'all this probably ain't to bright niether.Hope they don't come kill me!LOL!

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Hi guys,
I am doing a school project. And I know poaching is wrong, I am a very strong believer in hunting. If you want to kill something, wait until you have the tags, licesnces and the right season. I hate poachers. They always get away some how. But anyway i picked the topic poaching and my teacher said i had to get yes and no agreements. I believe poaching is wrong. So she said to get yes and no argumnets on SHOULD WE STOP POACHING? I know the answer is yes, but she wants no arguments also? Whatever floats her boat. If you guys could answer this i would really appreciate it.

Poaching is terrible, and I hate it. Where I hunt, there is a poacher (famous in my area) and our land is separated from his by a creek. We also have land across the street from him. The funny thing is that my dad has killed his biggest deer basically in the guy's back yard and I killed my biggest across the road from him. Just thought I would share and am in no way advocating his actions. I just think it's very ironic.

My grandad, rest his soul, told me of his old stories. I wish I could remember them all better. They weren't rich folks.

His family wasn't much on getting licenses, or any of that "gov'ment" stuff. When they needed food, they went out and hunted. That is NOT poaching. That was the world when the cost of ammo was directly compared to the cost of food.

Only sport hunters can poach. I'm all for license fees that directly support hunting lands, parks, forests, wetlands, and so forth. And now, there are probably none of us here on the internet that MUST hunt to feed our family or they have no meat this month. And the stories listed above are true a*ses about it.

But a friend of mine in Albany Ga came from a home that didn't even have electricity until the '60s. They didn't bother with permits, either.

But for us, yes. Do everything legally while we can afford to. I take the people and situations into account. People hunted without taxes for many thousands of years to feed their family.

You are right; there is a difference in subsistence hunting and poaching. Subsistence hunters don't saw off the antlers and leave a carcass and or leave the whole thing to rot.