Idaho Man Sentenced in Bighorn Deadhead Case

[alecvg]

Thoughts on this case? He absolutely screwed up, but $11,000 in fines for essentially an illegal deadhead?

Idaho resident sentenced for trying to pass off Montana bighorn as roadkill

An Idaho resident has to pay more than $11,000 dollars, serve two years supervised probation and lose hunting privileges for two years for trying to pass off a

nbcmontana.com

 

[TSAMP]

Seems like abit much to me. I guess Montana needed paid for that sheep one way or another.

Not knowing the individuals background though, maybe this isn't his first run in. Id need more details before I'm ready to go full Karen.

Maybe it was the same guy who came on here asking where he can purchase a deadhead.

 

[roadrunner]

No comment, other than saying no comment.

 

[MuleyFever]

These things never make sense. The next guy will poach 5 elk and get a lesser punishment.

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

This guy should have gotten Muley Freak's lawyer... Or maybe Montana just has some teeth, too bad Muley Freak's poaching convictions were in UT and ID cause he got off lighter than this dude both times he was convicted of poaching. I'd think poaching a live animal would deserve more penalty than falsifying a deadhead report even if it was across state lines.

 

[Yoder]

Don't they have anything better to do?

 

[Brooks]

Only way to get arrested today is by being a white US born citizen. Seems like laws don’t apply to anyone else.

 

[displacedtexan]

Yeah, he didn't have a good enough lawyer.

 

[Jason Snyder]

Good. Let him have it.

 

[Geewhiz]

I'm confused why he even tried to take it to Idaho. In Montana I'm pretty sure its now legal to pick up sheep dead heads

 

[IDVortex]

I'm confused why he even tried to take it to Idaho. In Montana I'm pretty sure its now legal to pick up sheep dead heads

No it's not, sheep and goats aren't allowed to be picked in MT. Which is why he brought it to ID.

 

[S-3 ranch]

They are just trying to make their point of don’t pick up a dead head in Montana, he didn’t help his cause by trying to lie his way out of it
Darwin Award sent by the judge

 

[Geewhiz]

No it's not, sheep and goats aren't allowed to be picked in MT. Which is why he brought it to ID.

Previous to a few years ago it was illegal. Its legal now.

 

[alecvg]

Previous to a few years ago it was illegal. Its legal now.

It is legal for natural death dead heads, not for roadkill. In Montana you can only salvage deer, elk, and moose I believe as roadkill. I read this as it was a roadkill sheep.

 

[Geewhiz]

It is legal for natural death dead heads, not for roadkill. In Montana you can only salvage deer, elk, and moose I believe as roadkill. I read this as it was a roadkill sheep.

Oh I see I thought he picked it up in the mountains in MT as a dead head and claimed he picked it up in Idaho as roadkill. Obviously the guy screwed up either way but if he just claimed he had found it in the hills dead he probly would have gotten away with it. To be clear I'm not endorsing this behavior.

 

[TaperPin]

F*** him - someone poaches a bighorn and you guys think all he needs is a slap on the wrist? Wtf

 

[Geewhiz]

F*** him - someone poaches a bighorn and you guys think all he needs is a slap on the wrist? Wtf

The article isn't clear on the details but it doesn't look like he actually killed the sheep, just snagged the head from somewhere he wasn't supposed to and then lied about it, right? Not that that's ok.

 

[KurtR]

F*** him - someone poaches a bighorn and you guys think all he needs is a slap on the wrist? Wtf

He poached it from what i read it was dead on the side of the road. Did he run it over on purpose?

 

[TSAMP]

The article isn't clear on the details but it doesn't look like he actually killed the sheep, just snagged the head from somewhere he wasn't supposed to and then lied about it, right? Not that that's ok.

Technically, by taking possession via an illegal act it's still poaching.

 

[TaperPin]

When you allow someone to kill a sheep - in any way you can imagine, from shooting, stabbing, dropping off a tall building, electrocuting, or running it down with a vehicle - then it gets handed off to a buddy and it’s ok?

Maybe I’ve just been around more idiot young guys than most, but if you combine a heavy farm bumper, with the relatively small sheep, and in a few seconds of poor judgement it might have seemed like an easy way to get a big ram.

The teenage boy excuse of, “You didn’t see me do it, so you can’t accuse me of doing anything wrong,” works in some families, but not ours. If you don’t want to be called a duck, don’t walk like a duck, or talk like a duck.