Just to add the coon story reminds me of something my neighbor did about 15 yr ago.

He had just recently moved into the hood when another neighbor's cow crossed a fence and was grazing in the new guys ' field of overgrown grass and weeds. The guy came out on his pordh and to our horror he shot the cow in the hind quarter with a .22.

Well she laid down for several hours until the "hunter" realized that he was caught and he sent for a vet. since this jerk mooved in the deer have quit visiting and about the only wildlife left are the possums that live in his
garbage.

Speaking of poachers did everyone see that picture of patti murray with the dead wild salmon in People mag. 12/3/01? I thought it might make a good campaign poster.
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"Hunting is the only sport that I know of, in which one of the participants doesn't know that he is in the game." John Madden