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Unethical hunters should stay home

| December 2, 2012 6:00 AM

To the “hunter(s)” who drove a few yards off Highway 95 up a private access road and shot a deer. If you are going to be so lazy as to simply park and step from your vehicle and shoot a deer near several homes, the least you could do is take it with you.

Whoever this lowlife was, you do not have any kind of character. Shooting a deer should be for the purpose of using it for food, not leaving more than half of it lying in the bushes on the side of a private road while only taking the hind quarters. The argument that hunting is supplementing my family’s grocery bill looses its validity with this sort of wasteful, disrespectful behavior.

Two years ago my mother driving up her driveway found two young men gutting a deer close to her home. They lied to her saying they drug it there to skin it, but didn’t shoot it on her “posted” private property. What buffoons. These types of lazy, sneaky people aren’t making a good name for their fellow hunters, but instead are assisting in the negative image of hunters everywhere, causing more “no hunting” and “no trespassing” signs to pop up. Which is fine with me.

In closing if you aren’t enough of a sportsman to do it right, stay home away from decent human beings and the wildlife.

CINDY AASE

Sagle