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<blockquote data-quote="MontanaRifleman" data-source="post: 308785" data-attributes="member: 11717"><p>Being the guy who shot (legally) the first B&C ram (score 185) out of the breaks back in 89. Here's my $.02... It is well known that there are poaching problems in the breaks, especially with sheep. If FW&P didn't conduct undercover operations a lot more trophy animals would be lost than this one sheep. It is a real shame the ram was shot, especially being a state record. But.... how many trophies would be lost to poachers without the efforts of the FW&P. Now I cant see where these guys really did much wrong, but I'm guessing that FW&P had a lot of intel on these guys before they started this operation. Why did Lewton offer to buy the ram for $5000???</p><p> </p><p>I think there is a lot of information missing from this story and we are all rushing to judgement before all the facts are known. NEVER a good idea to makes judgements before knowing all the facts. So yeah, we see a monster ram killed and we get very upset. I wonder how many trophy sheep these guys <u>may</u> be responsible for taking illegally in the past??? Would your opnions and attitudes be different if you knew they had shot a half dozen or dozen nice rams in years past?</p><p> </p><p>FW&P is by no means perfect and I have some critiques for this opperation. Why didn't they set it up as a poaching sting? Or illegal outfitting and guiding? Not very smart for sure. Did the ram have to be shot? That can be debated forever.</p><p> </p><p>I would rather have an imperfect FW&P that screws up now and then than no FW&P at all. In the case of the latter, we would have precious few nice animals to hunt in Montana.</p><p> </p><p>I know a couple of FW&P agents or former agents and they are great guys. There's a couple of bad apples too, just like anywhere else in our society.</p><p> </p><p>my $.02</p><p> </p><p>-MR</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MontanaRifleman, post: 308785, member: 11717"] Being the guy who shot (legally) the first B&C ram (score 185) out of the breaks back in 89. Here's my $.02... It is well known that there are poaching problems in the breaks, especially with sheep. If FW&P didn't conduct undercover operations a lot more trophy animals would be lost than this one sheep. It is a real shame the ram was shot, especially being a state record. But.... how many trophies would be lost to poachers without the efforts of the FW&P. Now I cant see where these guys really did much wrong, but I'm guessing that FW&P had a lot of intel on these guys before they started this operation. Why did Lewton offer to buy the ram for $5000??? I think there is a lot of information missing from this story and we are all rushing to judgement before all the facts are known. NEVER a good idea to makes judgements before knowing all the facts. So yeah, we see a monster ram killed and we get very upset. I wonder how many trophy sheep these guys [U]may[/U] be responsible for taking illegally in the past??? Would your opnions and attitudes be different if you knew they had shot a half dozen or dozen nice rams in years past? FW&P is by no means perfect and I have some critiques for this opperation. Why didn't they set it up as a poaching sting? Or illegal outfitting and guiding? Not very smart for sure. Did the ram have to be shot? That can be debated forever. I would rather have an imperfect FW&P that screws up now and then than no FW&P at all. In the case of the latter, we would have precious few nice animals to hunt in Montana. I know a couple of FW&P agents or former agents and they are great guys. There's a couple of bad apples too, just like anywhere else in our society. my $.02 -MR [/QUOTE]
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