elkduds
Well-known member
"I once arrested another jerk for driving his snowmobile over a coyote repeatedly, on a lake where several families with children were ice fishing." User F250 posted this to HT in '16.
In WY it is legal to run down, run over repeatedly and kill predators w snow machines and other vehicles. Legislation was proposed last year to outlaw same, the state legislature refused to even have the bill read in session.
This practice infuriates and disgusts me. I would not stand by for it any more than I would watch someone torture a child, pet or livestock. I don't participate but I understand hunting predators: bang, flop. Lights out.
You can't legally shoot @ predators from a vehicle or a road in WY. But it is OK to chase them to exhaustion, then run over them repeatedly. You don't even have to kill them. That would violate every game law they have if it were a moose or squirrel. For coyotes though, green light, full speed ahead. To me that is more asinine than NRs needing a guide to hunt WY wilderness areas, and much less defensible. So I sent an email to every legislator in WY:
Mark WXYZ Colorado Springs, CO writing in opposition to running over wildlife for fun and profit.
I am a hunter and outdoorsman. Those who chase and kill game and predators w snow machines, atvs/utvs, motorcycles and automobiles are neither hunters nor outdoorsmen, in fact they probably don't qualify as people. Torturing animals is a proven step toward sociopathy and psychopathy, yet your law encourages this subhuman practice.
Legislators, check your calendars: It is 2019. Vigilantism, animal fighting for sport, lynching, even using motorized vehicles off designated trails on many public lands have gone the way of the mastodon. So must the vile practice of "predator whacking" as encouraged by your state law, which prohibits shooting coyotes from a road but allows running them down, then running over them as many times as one wants.
If you definitions of sport and manhood requires you to dispatch animals that exist by eating other animals; grab your AR, Glock, BMG and smoke 'em, blow them away, light them up. Regardless of your marksmanship, that is still more humane than chasing them to exhaustion, then running over them repeatedly until they are dead and mangled, or you get your rocks off, whichever comes first. And every OHV in WY has @ least 1 firearm on board.
Last year my family enjoyed traveling to Cody and Yellowstone. The year before that it was Newcastle and Sundance. Frontier Days, the Miracle Mile, Medicine Bow, Jackson Hole, Red Desert, the Bighorns...we will not return, as long as this barbaric legislation exists. I will encourage all my personal and social media acquaintances to avoid spending any time or $ on anything in of from WY.
I already refused to hunt WY because of the outfitter-in-wilderness bullsh1t. I have 0 interest in any reply from you except: it was a bad law and we ended it. I considered a softer tone in this email. Clearly, anyone who endorses repeatedly running down and over wild animals would not recognize or appreciate conciliatory rhetoric. So I wrote what I meant, and what everyone (including coyote hunters) I have heard from agrees with.
HT brethren (and cistern), am I missing a perspective that would make this madness somehow okay? Or remotely defensible? Several years ago when I lived in Grand Junction, some dikfor dragged his dog to death, tied by a leash to his bumper. It was a local and national outrage. Why isn't this?
In WY it is legal to run down, run over repeatedly and kill predators w snow machines and other vehicles. Legislation was proposed last year to outlaw same, the state legislature refused to even have the bill read in session.
This practice infuriates and disgusts me. I would not stand by for it any more than I would watch someone torture a child, pet or livestock. I don't participate but I understand hunting predators: bang, flop. Lights out.
You can't legally shoot @ predators from a vehicle or a road in WY. But it is OK to chase them to exhaustion, then run over them repeatedly. You don't even have to kill them. That would violate every game law they have if it were a moose or squirrel. For coyotes though, green light, full speed ahead. To me that is more asinine than NRs needing a guide to hunt WY wilderness areas, and much less defensible. So I sent an email to every legislator in WY:
Mark WXYZ Colorado Springs, CO writing in opposition to running over wildlife for fun and profit.
I am a hunter and outdoorsman. Those who chase and kill game and predators w snow machines, atvs/utvs, motorcycles and automobiles are neither hunters nor outdoorsmen, in fact they probably don't qualify as people. Torturing animals is a proven step toward sociopathy and psychopathy, yet your law encourages this subhuman practice.
Legislators, check your calendars: It is 2019. Vigilantism, animal fighting for sport, lynching, even using motorized vehicles off designated trails on many public lands have gone the way of the mastodon. So must the vile practice of "predator whacking" as encouraged by your state law, which prohibits shooting coyotes from a road but allows running them down, then running over them as many times as one wants.
If you definitions of sport and manhood requires you to dispatch animals that exist by eating other animals; grab your AR, Glock, BMG and smoke 'em, blow them away, light them up. Regardless of your marksmanship, that is still more humane than chasing them to exhaustion, then running over them repeatedly until they are dead and mangled, or you get your rocks off, whichever comes first. And every OHV in WY has @ least 1 firearm on board.
Last year my family enjoyed traveling to Cody and Yellowstone. The year before that it was Newcastle and Sundance. Frontier Days, the Miracle Mile, Medicine Bow, Jackson Hole, Red Desert, the Bighorns...we will not return, as long as this barbaric legislation exists. I will encourage all my personal and social media acquaintances to avoid spending any time or $ on anything in of from WY.
I already refused to hunt WY because of the outfitter-in-wilderness bullsh1t. I have 0 interest in any reply from you except: it was a bad law and we ended it. I considered a softer tone in this email. Clearly, anyone who endorses repeatedly running down and over wild animals would not recognize or appreciate conciliatory rhetoric. So I wrote what I meant, and what everyone (including coyote hunters) I have heard from agrees with.
HT brethren (and cistern), am I missing a perspective that would make this madness somehow okay? Or remotely defensible? Several years ago when I lived in Grand Junction, some dikfor dragged his dog to death, tied by a leash to his bumper. It was a local and national outrage. Why isn't this?
