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I mean, if he suffered in Cali for a while I'd say he deserves a trophy
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I think until the legal/poaching q is answered it's hard to say much on this. If you contact ODFW they should be able to tell u if hunting is legal there at this (that?) time and what method, etc.
They do occasionally offer rewards for poachers so if a reward were active in that area and your neighbor was aware of the reward, my guess is there would be no more poaching (assuming it is poaching). Or even if no reward, if the neighbor knew there was a reported poaching problem in the area he might stop.
If it's legal hunting then that is a whole different deal of course and becomes a neighbor-to-neighbor/community acceptance thing.
Well, I for one find this disgusting! Hunting and killing animals is morally disgusting and cruel! There is no need to harm helpless animals for the pleasure of seeing them die for "sport"! I for one would never kill one of nature's most beautiful animals!
Of course at the old homestead at least once, and usually two or three times a week, I would hear SSCCRREACH! BAM! I would go out and see which way the deer ran and would wait a bit and follow. At the end of this, I would often find some organically raised/fed, free-range, pre-tenderized wild game (what we used to call a "deer").
Now to keep that valuable commodity from going to waste (being eaten by someone else for example) I would bring it home (sounds better than dragged it back) to process it (used to be butchered it, but what with the PC crowd and all...) and turned it into chops, steaks, roasts and other things that the PC crowd would think came from the supermarket where things call "steaks" live until they are brought home to be cooked, If the "steaks" are not being harvested by the steak pickers, then animals like hot dogs and roasts, but also bratwurst or hamburger is OK, as long as no animals are harmed.
If I had 5 acres I'd have some pigs.If I had 5+ acres with deer, elk, turkey, etc... my freezer would be full. Sounds like your neighbor is living his dream, and I don't fault him one bit.
Another option would be to quit leaving piles of feed out for the wildlife, this way they act like wildlife, not pets.
I agree that it's got to be punch in the gut for you. I'd be pissed too. Not saying a thing to the neighbor is the right thing to do, IMO. I'll come at it like this. Say you bought property on a nice river, the river has salmon. But your neighbor upstream is heavily invested in the whole life cycle of anadromous fish. See where I'm going?
No clue.