Washington Griz Poached

[GoldTip]

So, is inadvertently shooting a grizzly because you mistakenly thought it was a black bear...poaching?

I am thinking that they thought they shot a blackie, strange color phase, with really really long fur and huge claws.... Heck,they even paraded it around town and were showing it off to others.....then someone smartened them up about it....and they dozed it under to get rid of it..... Sounds like a couple of knuckleheads....not sure I would call this one poaching. Big game violation nonetheless...

Yep, it's illegal and should be.  There has been a bear ID picture in the hunting regs for mulitple years now and warns about the fact you could run into one in unit 113.  Hell, I been scouting that unit for the last month and there is signs all over the in woods telling you to make sure you I.D. your bear.  My bet is if they'd have turned themselves in once someone pointed out to them it was a grizzly, they woudn't be facing the charges that they now are.

[GoldTip]

There are pictures all over up in Leclerc creek area, telling you to know your bears (with pics) just like Goldtip said.  A while back there was some test thing with pictures of bears to see if you could tell them apart, anyone know where that went?

That was Montana's qualifier test to purchase a black bear tag.  I suggested that to the biologist up there that they do something like that here as well.

[ICEMAN]

Something must not have clicked with these fellas then....it appeared that they transported the bear in plain sight of other hunters?

[Slider]

Why would you purposely haul a Grizzlry Bear home in the back of an open truck unless you really didn't know? And like Ice said somebody smarten them up when they got home so they buried it!!! Pope it looks like an open and shut case!!!.........

[bobcat]

That sure turned into an expensive moose hunt.

It probably would've been cheaper to go on a guided moose hunt in Canada.

I wonder if they filled their moose tags. 

[Ray]

Sounds unintentional to me.

Maybe they should have something like the montana bear id test before you get a bear tag. Oh gotta hear the response to that 

[WDFW-SUX]

More regulations are sure to fix it.....

[Ray]

I knew you would agree 

[bobcat]

Sounds unintentional to me.

Yeah I agree. I wouldn't call it poaching.

[JBar]

String em up, now can we get back to the wolves! 

[Broken nock]

This reminds me of a guy I hunted with one time quite a few years ago. He was unsafe. uninformed about the type of animals he hunted, and wouldn't take advise from anyone who wanted to give it to him. I refused to hunt with him because he knew everything and wouldn't take advise. A friend of his and this guy went whitetail hunting and stopped at the game check north of Deer Park, and proudly displayed thier two albino whitetail spikes. Both were arrested for poaching Mountain Goats, Dishonorable discharge from the Air Force, and jail time. I feel no simpathy for them or anyone else that takes an animal because they couldn't identify it properly. There's no excuse for it, and it makes the honest hunter look bad. As they say ignorance is not an excuse.

[Ray]

There's no excuse for not knowing how to ID your bear species. However I believe the punishment should be lesser if there was no evidence that it was intentional. I agree completely that it is illegal and punishable. Who bets these guys get more punishment for accidentally killing a grizzly bear than the kid who killed the lady on Sauk Mountain?

[bobcat]

There's no excuse for not knowing how to ID your bear species. However I believe the punishment should be lesser if there was no evidence that it was intentional. I agree completely that it is illegal and punishable. Who bets these guys get more punishment for accidentally killing a grizzly bear than the kid who killed the lady on Sauk Mountain?

 

[Machias]

Sorry fellas but for me anyways, it's a clear case of poaching, whether it was intentional or not.  Morons

[bobcat]

The Selkirk GMU.