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Darn Non-Resident Hunters?!?
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<blockquote data-quote="BCMAG2" data-source="post: 2241456" data-attributes="member: 60396"><p>Where I live, the primary difference I have seen between residents and non-residents is trespassing. The locals pretty much know eachother and know that if they trespassed to hunt, they would be recognized. Non-residents seem to feel emboldened by a sense of anonymity and the belief that if they can't be identified, they can't be prosecuted. (Criminologists have long identified that mentality as a primary factor to explain higher crime rates in big cities vs small towns.) Every year, local landowners post (on Facebook) game cam pics of hunters trespassing and asking for help identifying them, which never happens because they are either nonresidents or perhaps a resident from a distant county.</p><p>The other issue I have seen stems from ignorance and the failure to learn the game regs. My county has a federal wildlife preserve and another large national forest watershed area where hunting is not permitted. Both are clearly shown in the regs. But every year it seems, nonresidents shoot big game animals in those areas, most likely because they did not study the regs or pay attention to the signs. It doesn't take too many instances of that reported in the local newspaper to get the "anti" non-resident sentiment stirred up.</p><p> It has been a long time since I hunted out of state. But I do recall being denied permission to hunt birds because I was a non-resident. But I never put much stock in that explanation. It was just the landowners' excuse for saying NO.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BCMAG2, post: 2241456, member: 60396"] Where I live, the primary difference I have seen between residents and non-residents is trespassing. The locals pretty much know eachother and know that if they trespassed to hunt, they would be recognized. Non-residents seem to feel emboldened by a sense of anonymity and the belief that if they can’t be identified, they can’t be prosecuted. (Criminologists have long identified that mentality as a primary factor to explain higher crime rates in big cities vs small towns.) Every year, local landowners post (on Facebook) game cam pics of hunters trespassing and asking for help identifying them, which never happens because they are either nonresidents or perhaps a resident from a distant county. The other issue I have seen stems from ignorance and the failure to learn the game regs. My county has a federal wildlife preserve and another large national forest watershed area where hunting is not permitted. Both are clearly shown in the regs. But every year it seems, nonresidents shoot big game animals in those areas, most likely because they did not study the regs or pay attention to the signs. It doesn’t take too many instances of that reported in the local newspaper to get the “anti” non-resident sentiment stirred up. It has been a long time since I hunted out of state. But I do recall being denied permission to hunt birds because I was a non-resident. But I never put much stock in that explanation. It was just the landowners’ excuse for saying NO. [/QUOTE]
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