This whole issue can come to light. The determining factor on whether it does or not is if the DCNR agency wants to spend the time, the money, the effort and any other resource to get to the bottom of it.
I hope that they do.
If the kill is legal, everything would be cleared up on Tyler and he should receive respectful recognition for his accomplishment.
If it's not a legal kill he should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and any way that he has profited from this kill should be taken away from him (prizes from contests, etc.).
I just hope the situation gets resolved before Aldeer runs out of bandwidth for this thread.
Cuz-Pat
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