The system is rigged...

[LFC911]

Great legal hunt on some land-locked public land in WY, what is discouraging it the landowner, WY F&G and the WY Outfitter & Guide actions at the end.

 

[Teaman1]

Makes me wish people would collectively ignore Wyoming for a year or two. No preference points, licenses, nothing.
I know this will never happen and would make the pay hunters happy.
Outfitter welfare and actions like this being ignored are just ridiculous.

 

[Fireflyfishing]

I would prosecute to full extent of the law.

I like ranchers and have plenty of friends that are ranchers. I don’t care for ranchers that don’t follow the law in the best interest of their ranch. I don’t like when they lie about property boundaries which they do. I’m also not a fan of the idea “it’s landlocked, thus I basically own the land.” Tack on stealing….grrr. This vid frustrates me.

 

[LFC911]

It will be curious to see where the jury trial goes...my guess is the DA will take a plea deal and it will never go to trial.

 

[RockAndSage]

Not wanting to spend half an hour watching through the video - what's the short version?

 

[LFC911]

Not wanting to spend half an hour watching through the video - what's the short version?

3 hunters fly into land-locked public ground and tag 3 banger bulls in 2 days. Day 3 they're hauling out meat and one of the landowners gets caught stealing one of the hunters head. Hunters catch and confront him. No remorse, hunters report it. F&G determine they were done hunting, so it wasn't harassment but he did get charged with theft under $1k. There will be a jury trial in the summer. Landowner also sells hunts. WY guide association pressures F&G to review helicopter rules and want the pilot to be a licensed guide. F&G is going to review "loophole" in helicopter rules. I think that's how it went.

 

[Conrad101st]

I laugh when I hear the word loophole.
You either comply or you don’t.
Intent doesn’t mean squat if they don’t write laws correctly.

I had a professor getting pissed bc grad students (I was one) were maxing out the earned income credit payments in the mid 1990s and bragging about it. We just happened to earn right at the very best income level as graduate assistants to max the credit.

He said that was meant for poor people and I said yes and we are poor grad students. If congress didn’t want us to get it as students, they should have written it more carefully.

 

[Conrad101st]

I can think of them saying something akin that you can’t land helicopters on forest lands.

So the hunters jump out from a 3 foot hover, then sling load gear and meat out later and stabo out to a public road to exit.