Originally Posted By: Irish_80
So is poaching wrong if the animal is taken out of season to feed someones family? Not for sport but out of necessity. This is an honest question, not trying to start any fights just curious about what you guys think. The law says it's wrong, I don't agree.
OK, IMO,
Animals are lower on the food chain, they are meant to be eaten. Now if a family has nothing and killing an elk, deer, bear, caribou, whatever keeps them alive, then so be it.
However If a man spends his money in bars, hookers, gambling, liquor, bass boats, $40,000 pickups and $1000 rifles, he doesn't need to poach to feed his family.
I personally know people who poach to "feed their families" so to speak, but if he quit hanging out in bars or sold his Expedition and bought a used pick-up he would have more money.