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Rules For Thee Not For Me (Outlaw Thread)

Some stupid laws pertain to the "intent" as well. People may carry items, that could put them in a bad light, that are only intended to be used in case of an emergency.
 
As a confession, I have walked 50 yards into a private CRP field to retrieve a doe I shot that exited the public without asking for permission first. I also have trespassed the property line of a large pasture that bordered national forest to drag a buck up to the road over relatively flat and treeless 200 yard stretch rather than a late night drag 1.5 miles back to where I was parked.

Was I wrong, absolutely, and both have bothered me a fair bit over the years (with the drag to the road bothering me considerably more).
 
bowhunthard88 said:
Some stupid laws pertain to the "intent" as well. People may carry items, that could put them in a bad light, that are only intended to be used in case of an emergency.
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The biggest one that I've seen personally was carrying a handgun... especially one that's not an approved caliber during firearm season.
 
Trespassing. I know plenty of fellas that’ll “stray” a bit onto someone else’s property. Not like way intrusive but a small incursion is not unheard of.
 
The guy that allegedly never breaks a single hunting reg see a guy who left his hunter orange at home off in the distance and says to himself, “outlaws like this are what is ruining hunting for the rest of us. I would never hunt without my hunter orange.” The the guy who left his hunter orange gets to his hunting spot where he find tacks on 30 trees and says to himself, “outlaws like this are ruining hunting for the rest of us. I would never leave tacks on the trees.” The guy who left the tacks on the trees was scouting in another location and came across a trail camera where they weren’t permitted and says to himself, “outlaws like this are ruining hunting for the rest of us. I would never use trail cameras where not permitted.” The guy who set up the camera was climbing a tree to hunt and sees the tree had already been climbed. When he got to hunting height he discovered that there was a screw in bow hook in the tree and says to himself, “outlaws like this are ruining hunting for the rest of us. I would never screw in objects into a tree.” The guy that left the screw in bow hanger was hunting on the edge of private land when he sees a bow shot deer run out and expire in the private. He sees a guy crossing into the corn field way off in the distance to retrieve his game and says to himself, “outlaws like this are ruining hunting for the rest of us. I would never trespass, even to get a deer.” The guy that tresspassed to retrieve his game was dragging his deer out when he came across a pile of corn and says to himself, “outlaws like this are ruining hunting for the rest of us. I would never illegally bait deer.” The guy who left the corn pile got a text from his buddy who shot two bucks and wanted him to drive over and tag one for him. The baiter says to himself, “outlaws like this are ruining hunting for the rest of us. I would never illegally tag a deer I didn’t kill.” The guy that killed the two bucks texted his other two buddies, one was scouting, the other hunting a field edge, and one had killed already that morning. When they got there the guy that shot the two bucks told them the one buck was off in the privot there and asked if they would go get it. The one buddy pulled out a pocket boy and went to work cutting a lane through the privot to the second deer. The guy without hunter orange on says to the guy cutting lanes, “outlaws like you are ruining hunting for the rest of us. I would never cut limbs!” The other buddy is walking up and tells them you’ll never believe what he got on his cellular camera the other day, some a-hole was carrying corn to bait! The guy who was disgusted by the sight of cutting limbs went to tag the second deer for his buddy as the other buddy kept on with his story. While he was reaching into his bag to get a pen some corn fell out. Turns out the guy without orange, the guy who set tacks, the guy who set a camera, the guy who left a bow hanger, the guy who tresspassed, the guy who baited, the guy who tagged two deer, and the guy that was cutting limbs were all buddies and were all outlaws in each others own right. Disgusted by each others law breaking and subjective justifications they all decided that the others were outlaws and they were ruining hunting for the rest them. They went home and wrote about the illegal actions of the other buddies on their respective favorite hunting forums where they were vindicated and praised for standing up against the abuse of the hunting regs they encountered. They each forgot to share their own rule breakings and thus continued to outlaw where they deemed ok or necessary.
 
^^^^ I kind of wish I incorporated the killing of a rattlesnake and coyote into that story now

it is illegal to kill both on the fws land I hunt so add that to the list of things people I know have done
 
bowhunthard88 said:
We've all done something questionable at some time or another, pertaining to hunting or not. I just happen to not believe in self-incrimination, at least in writing, even if there is a statute of limitations haha!
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I am a bit surprised by the many open confessions. I never once said I committed any of the listed actions haha
 
bowhunthard88 said:
We've all done something questionable at some time or another, pertaining to hunting or not. I just happen to not believe in self-incrimination, at least in writing, even if there is a statute of limitations haha!
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gcr0003 said:
I am a bit surprised by the many open confessions. I never once said I committed any of the listed actions haha
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meh, perhaps i'm just pretending to be a tough guy on the internet with the vanishing limb disease talk, or conflating private and public land activities. thats right mr DNR, nothing to see here...
 
Heres 1....I was invited as a guest on a archery quota hunt. The quota holder is supposed to print the paperwork and sign...the guest papers need both signatures...... Anyway.... Show up at 4 to dudes house and transfer my stuff over to his vehicle cause we gotta share a ride in and out of the woods. We drive the hour + drive and park. Getting all ready to go hunt and I ask for my paper. "Ohhh oops"

So....instead of sitting around and not hunting which was the correct action, I went and hunted all day long. On the way out we got stopped and asked for the paperwork.

I was issued a warning but the warnings are still documented and that is "on my permanent record"
 
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