Stiff sentence with this elk poaching case.

[Anvilheadtexas]

How anyone is able to justify suggesting that the penalties were too stiff for this scum is beyond my comprehension? Makes you wonder what they are trying to justify?!

And, would their opinion change if the poached elk was actually a poached whitetail and the said crime occurred on or near their hunting grounds?

[mighty]

Got em

[Throwin Darts]

go buy a private landowner tag, hire a guide, buy all the gear that it takes to head up the mountain to shoot a top tier bull, then take the value of all the meat you get from that bull. Add up those numbers and tell me if $20k seems excessive.

[ladrones]

How anyone is able to justify suggesting that the penalties were too stiff for this scum is beyond my comprehension? Makes you wonder what they are trying to justify?!

And, would their opinion change if the poached elk was actually a poached whitetail and the said crime occurred on or near their hunting grounds?

I did not see anything in the article about losing hunting rights. But I hope they at least banned him from hunting for 10 years as well. He will never be able to gun hunt again.

[Razrbk89]

How anyone is able to justify suggesting that the penalties were too stiff for this scum is beyond my comprehension? Makes you wonder what they are trying to justify?!

And, would their opinion change if the poached elk was actually a poached whitetail and the said crime occurred on or near their hunting grounds?

I'm glad he was punished, but 20k seems pretty dang steep to me if it's his first offense.

If someone shot a deer on my place I would most certainly still think that 20k was an outrageous fine. It's an animal?

[Crazy Horse]

If someone shot a deer on my place I would most certainly still think that 20k was an outrageous fine. It's an animal?

Why? Its just money...

[Anvilheadtexas]

I'm glad he was punished, but 20k seems pretty dang steep to me if it's his first offense.

If someone shot a deer on my place I would most certainly still think that 20k was an outrageous fine. It's an animal?

So let me understand....because "it's an animal" the fines and penalties should somehow be less stringent? Under that justification why should there be any game laws....they are only animals??? It's not like what the Durban did had any gray area. Believe me, everyone of us can make a mistake that leads to a ticket, but this crime was pretty obnoxious.

[Ætheling]

Elk meat is so dang tasty too. I cant imagine wasting all that meat.

[GrapeApe]

Lol at all the people saying it was too heavy of a sentence when in other threads about poaching/trespassing they are saying SSS.

Reminds me of the two times I watched CNN, so contradictory and nonsensical.

[PondPopper]

Elk meat is so dang tasty too. I cant imagine wasting all that meat.

You want to talk about a lot of great meat being wasted...

Have you read anything about all of the Nilgai being slaughtered, from helicopters, and being left to rot??
All because of an impossible attempt to control a particular species of tick?

Amazingly stupid.

[MySRT8U]

this thread is hilarious. someone trail cam pics of a poacher and starts a thread about it and all you see is "Kill all poachers!!" this guy actually got caught and all of the sudden the fine is too much? what happened to killing him? lol

[Ætheling]

You want to talk about a lot of great meat being wasted...

Have you read anything about all of the Nilgai being slaughtered, from helicopters, and being left to rot??
All because of an impossible attempt to control a particular species of tick?

Amazingly stupid.

No, that's insane. Antelope and Elk meat being wasted is beyond the pale.

[RiverRat1]

I'm glad he was punished, but 20k seems pretty dang steep to me if it's his first offense.

If someone shot a deer on my place I would most certainly still think that 20k was an outrageous fine. It's an animal?

All the "string him up" guys ignore the bolded part. That's all a few of us were stating is that we need more information. The article is lacking.

He was/is a guide. For what and where? And can he still guide? Other offenses or record of crimes? Was he legally hunting elk in Nevada and wasted the meat? Was it in season or out of season? Who was the guy with them?

Hopefully the judge had this info and made the right call.

[flywise]

everyone should know that crime typically has a consequence( unless your a clinton)
First offense or 10th, you know going in if your caught it could cost you dearly.

[RiverRat1]

This article explains more. He deserved what he got.

https://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2017/04/21/kss-southern-utah-man-sentenced-in-illegal-nevada-elk-killing-receives-20000-fine/#.WP-iS2e1vcs