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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
It's pretty darn easy to tell the difference between a bullet wound and an arrow wound. Any fish cop that doesn't know the difference should not even be in the field. That's a pretty thin excuse, if that is what they are using.
I will still go pretty much wherever and whenever I please. I will make a concious decision to ignore the regulations if I feel they are unjust and compromise my safety. I will not be held hostage by some petty little bureaucrat (who is not answerable to the electorate) making up some petty little rules about what I can and cannot have with me when out in the wilderness. Not when it can be a matter of my survival.
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just last year my friend shot a smaller black bear. legal sized, but we gave him hell with jokes like "where is it's mama?" i think it was 90 lbs. shot it with his bow, slicktrick 4-blade broadhead. punched a hole through the engine room. double lungs, shoulderblades, full pass thru. we took the bear to the game warden to validate it. he looked at the hole, and asked us for the bloody arrow. the damage was so great, he thought we drilled it with a firearm. he said we were lucky to have found the arrow, because he would have been very suspicious. sometimes you hit bone and things get very messy. it isnt always clear.
i asked a warden about the firearm rule. he said it was about the poachers. for me, going out into the woods is a privilage. i dont go wandering about thinking it is all about me. if the rules are in place to keep some fool from shooting a deer during the bow season illegally, then i play by the rules. i have never seen a wild grizzly. i dont go after moose, salmon or caribou...yet. honestly, from what i read, bears are getting to the point that they think a rifle shot means an easy meal. the real danger is coming back for that second load of meat. i would make crazy noise coming in. plus i would bring a very fat and slow helper. someone i can outrun.
