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The DNR checks ALL spotlighters almost without exception already today.
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I can only assume that many of you have not followed any poaching cases
Time after time poachers have been caught
after they have killed sometimes as high as 30 bucks!
That means they went out night after night after night...
with a gun and a spotlight and never were stopped!!
It is phyiscally impossible for one CO to stop even a portion of the shiners in a 2 county area.
They cannot work only at night, ALL night, 7 days a week..ALL fall.
C-mon....some of you are so concerned about making a small sacrifice that you have your heads buried in the sand!
For those of you that say "it doesn't concern me"...good gosh people...having a mature buck "stolen" from you doesn't concern you????
Your all so worried about having something take away from you...it already is....night after night...it's being taken from you and you are blissfully unaware of it.
One poacher NEVER was caught in the field...he had at least 26 bucks at his place...it's unknown how many others he had already sold.
He was caught ONLY because someone had reason to investigate a meth situation.
How many others like this are there?
Perhaps we should turn loose 10 shiners in 2 counties...and let any one of you see if you can find...
the one with a GUN
How much time will you spend checking the ones you find???
How many bucks will the one gun take while your killing time checking a "legal" shiner???
How long would it take you just to drive down the back roads of just one side of 2 counties???
This is amazing!! Sometimes I can't even believe what I'm reading from some of you!
Headless bucks might be hit by a car???
In the middle of a CRP or soybean field???
On a dirt road???
I know...I know...I'm wasting my time here...but the door of oppurtunity for change is cracked...and with the help of a lot of people who are as fed up as I am...we're gonna kick it wide open!