Story of Id F&G.......

[Brant Buster]

If everything happened the way it was explained above.

My comments /questions are this:

What's to keep a treehugging / environazi from calling in a bogus phone call to "jackpot" a law-abiding neighbor who hunts and fishes? If that VINDICTIVE and COWARDLY "environmentalist" decides to resort to such dirty tricks compounded by an agency that doesn't check the validity of the "complaint!" Oh well ........

It could also be a disgruntled poacher or other piode-vindictive neighbor doing the same thing! Or your kid's classmate, ex-girlfriend or spouse, etc., etc., etc.

We just witnessed an incredibly ugly and vindictive election a month ago. One party I found to be more VINDICTIVE and ugly in the dirty tricks they used than I've ever seen or heard about before (yeah I'm biased!, but my party also won too.)

The tactics you described above Supersider, remind me of the many clandestine and "revenge" tricks that the loosing party used right here in WA state - that didn't do them any good last month! But they didn't think twice about using!

I can't remember ALL the stories I heard or read from the papers, the radio, television or aquaintences who knew people who had campaign signs stolen from "inside their yards" in broad daylight by older adults!

In fact your story "smacks" of other stories where a drug bust might be launched on an unsuspecting law-abiding folks - that started with one simple anonimous phone call that was wrong!!

And no drugs were found.

But maybe the home was still trashed and destroyed. The people there roughed up, the children terrorized and the wife often embarressed - being night-time and (often) scantily clad. Etc., etc., etc.

Donald Scott (think that was his first name), founder and CEO of Scott Paper, was "accidently" killed by a part-time cowboy sheriff's deputy in such a bogus raid!

Scott's infant child nearly drowned in a bathtube while unattended, when Scott's wife was yanked away from bathing her baby and handcuffed.

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I'm also thinking that hunters lucky enough to bag a trophey animal need to NOT brag about it! I was taught as a small boy to NEVER discuss what guns were owned by my folks and in the house, or jewelry, cash, and other items a crook would steal.

But besides keeping my hunting successes "discrete," it might be a good idea to keep records for the future inquiries from cops it would appear. To lawfully possess sheep mounts, bobcats and cougars in some states, and other "rare trophies - one also has to possess the correct permits and paperwork.

Your thread here makes me think keeping records of a hunt, how a permit was acquired/bought and receipts from a taxidermist might be important to keep safe in the right place for possible future reference AND PROOF!

Am I paranoid? Probably a little bit!