From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>If you hit something, game or not, you must leave it (having dispatched it
>to prevent un-nessasary suffering of course), the guy behind may pick it up
>though as he didn't hit it. Its all to do with stopping people deliberately
>swerving to kill something (poaching in effect), accident or not if you hit
>it you must not take it.
>
>Niel, trying to catch-up with two weeks worth of back-log.
Steve, & Niel,
Interesting, that.
Now, suppose there were two vehicles travelling a roadway,
and they were acting in concert: one to hit the beasties, the other to
collect them.
Kind of points out the uselessness of the law, eh?
I would have thought that merely reporting the event -- in
the case of a managed game animal -- would be all that is necessary.
If someone is intent on hitting his next meal, there's no law
that will stop him from doing just that.
On the other hand, allowing the hitter to collect the kill and
simply report it, would in my estimation help in determining the
population density of that particular species, and where their greatest
concentrations are, and help in managing them better.
It would also help in determining if someone is actually
engaged in the act of poaching.
Methinks that the act of poaching conducted as road killing
is probably largely over estimated (read: way out of proportion to the
actual event).
ET
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I've seen bicycle tyre pumps converted to fire .410 shot shells,
never quite sure how well poachers did with them though!
Steve.
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