Aldeer.com Forums Alabama Deer Talk ALTurkey Talk -- Beards and Spurs Poaching?

I'm probably just not reading this correctly but, in the deer forum it seems poachers are worthy of being strung up and skinned alive but in the turkey forum it seems poaching might be considered a special art form?

wrong forum man, you have us confused with the fishing forum. Move along now.... we all do it by the book up in here.

What book?

Poaching is bad.....we prefer to call it piddling in here. I always enjoy the challenge of a 100 yard dash after a successful hunt. It really gets the blood flowing.

Piddling for Dummies

Hillbilly piddlers go up hill. Bout the only people that could catch a mountain piddler going up hill is another piddler.

I only turkey hunt at places I can wear tennis shoes

Ahh one of those members of the Tennis Shoe Hunting Club. Shoot first then run like hell.....

When I catch a poacher during deer season they are usually just members of a neighboring club who have gotten across the line. I call the president of the other club and let him handle it. He usually throws them outa the club.

When I catch a poacher during turkey season, I shoot him in the face with tss and toss his carcass in the old well. Doesn't take but a minute to open it up with the FEL and there is always room for another one.

Just wanta make sure you don't get the wrong idea.

Wise words. When in doubt just keep walking uphill

Snitches get stitches, bro. Just go on 'head and back outta here.

Only poaching ive done on purpose was because the neighbors was poaching on us so had to return the favor. I called it reverse poaching.

Just making it even

Here's kinda why I ask. Mostly I don't think I suffer much from envy, ... mostly. You got a big fancy house? Good for you! Drive a fancy car or truck? Man, wear it out (but don't drink and drive)? Say you have a hot wife who is low maintenance, loves you more than anything on this earth and who's primary goal in life is to keep you happy? Well that might be enviable except such a woman lives only in mythology, so if you make that claim, I assume you're lying and how ridiculous would it be to be envious of a lie!

However, it seems I am afflicted with envy when it comes to poaching. It's not that I have any desire to poach because I don't, it's more like I cannot stand the idea that someone is poaching on property that I'd like to be able to hunt but NOBODY is allowed to hunt. I'm not at all happy about this affliction and I really am mostly a "you do your thing and I'll do mine" kinda guy. I don't know why this affects me this way but if I'm being honest I have to confess that it does. I'm a follow the rules kinda guy. I don't believe in picking and choosing what rules or laws I'm going to follow (but I also confess difficulty with the posted speed limit). If I decide I will obey some rules/laws and ignore others as it suits me and everyone else does the same, well, we get anarchy. It's in my own personal interest to follow rules/laws that I don't like so that hopefully everyone else will do the same and we can all live in a peaceful society. Even when I don't like a rule it's not like I don't have recourse. If it's a law I can petition my legislative representatives to have the law changed and if enough people agree that the law is bad then it can be changed. If it's a hunting club rule I can do the same or find another club. I don't however, have the right to ignore it just because I don't like it or because somebody or even everybody else is doing it.

So when I hear a shotgun go off in the woods behind my house at 7:00 am on a Sunday morning smack in the middle of turkey season, I know that someone is on Birmingham Water Works Board property poaching turkey!!! But what bothers me is not so much that there's some dirty scumbag outlaw out there who knows exactly what he is doing, that is, he didn't drift inadvertently over a property line, but that I can't do the same thing without violating my conscience.

I guess it comes down to this, I can't seem to stop coveting (coveting being little different than envy) the hunting privileges for that property but I don't and never have hunted it.

now you spilled the beans ...... Get ready to hear more shots

Where is this. I'm sure we can make sure it doesn't happen again.

I did call the game warden on some deer poachers a couple seasons ago. GW said he got them but I don't know what happened. I didn't call this a.m. but should have. What I dislike about myself is the fact that I call because of sour grapes not for the love of law and order. In any event the call should be made I just wish my attitude were better about it. It's pretty lame for me to get upset about someone else getting away with breaking a law primarily because I don't get to break it too. I'm perfectly willing to obey the law but if I obey it, you better obey it too.

My old buddy Pap used to say "I like my turkeys like I like my eggs, poached". My first trip to Texas, I arrived and the ranch owner says "I've got a guide from Alabama his name is Pap Nelson..." I hunted with Pap on a 20,000 acre ranch any guess what we did. Yep, we poached my first 2 Rios from an adjoining ranch!
Judge not ye lest ye be judged by him.

Lonster

people cant help it. my friend owns land that borders 11000 acres of skyline he sees and gets poached on all the time. it something about breaking the law we think. There are plenty of birds on that 11000.