One to keep an eye on

[Duck Tape]

Riding around with a chambered round in a pistol or deer rifle is legal, day or night, but not very safe. If stopped for a traffic violation you should not be charged for a weapons violation.

Riding around at night frequently stopping to look at deer standing in fields with aid of binoculars on a full moon, I fields that you don't have permission to hunt, with a deer rifle with chambered round looks like an activity called night hunting. It is suspicious.

If I were in an elevated stand with binocs and a loaded high power rifle two hours after dark without following the coyote regs it is night hunting, right? You would not have to shoot for it to be considered hunting, right?

Why is it not considered night hunting when you are in a vehicle?

[JABIII]

Didn't you originally run on reforming SCDNR fuckery?

[Duck Tape]

My role as a legislator is to allow the most freedom to pursue the maximum sustained harvest.

[Duck Tape]

I don't believe in DUI check points. I believe officers have the right to stop me if I am swerving. They don't wait until I have wrecked to check on me.

This case should have been thrown out because of the officers actions. I acknowledged their exuberance and the turning off of body cameras as a reason. That does not mean the guy charged was not without fault also.

[wbrown609]

You keep calling it exuberance. I think pretty much everyone else that has watched that video would describe their actions using different terms. It was a BS stop from the beginning. They then had plenty of time and opportunities to make it right. Instead, they doubled down on crooked behavior. My concern is if this is routine behavior from DNR? They basically tried to ruin a young man financially as well as his reputation. How many others have been done the same way?

[JABIII]

My role as a legislator is to allow the most freedom to pursue the maximum sustained harvest.

Not bad for a Saturday morning...

[whitty]

https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess126...7_20260114.htm
Duke tape
So what if a big buck walks out during the doe only season. With your thought process people just can’t refrain from breaking the law if they have a loaded firearm. I mean they are hunting and they have a loaded firearm.

[SilverFox]

I think that any law telling me how I need to store my firearm in my truck is bullshit. This is supposed to the land of the free. We can’t make a law for every possible scenario so catch them in the act or don’t.

AMEN!

[SilverFox]

That does not mean the guy charged was not without fault also.

Show me according to the video and what the DNR saw where he was at fault.

You are so full of shit. Too bad the swamp isn't draining so we could get rid of you guys.

[Duck Tape]

I helped write the law allowing us to hunt coyotes, hogs and armadillos at night. DNR was concerned about deer hunting during these times.

Effort was made to reduce that problem. I was convinced most of us were ethical. I’m sure some are not.

Years ago I helped pass a constitutional amendment for the right to hunt fish and trap. While a right it can still be regulated.

We foresaw the increase in anti hunters and a migration of northerners. We saw a gradual decline in the numbers of hunters.

We are at risk with public opinion. Dog driving and legal night hunting are potential PR problems that cause concern to the public and even the hunting community.

Perhaps the language needs to be tweeked. You constitutional are extremely important.

[Duck Tape]

Silver fox. I don’t care for your tone.

[SilverFox]

DT... I don't care for you.

Just because a man kills a big deer and happens to be a coyote hunter with thermal and night vision doesn't mean he was at fault for doing anything wrong. I kill big deer and I have night vision as well as thermal. The only thing this guy did that I have not done is back up to look at a buck with binos... and I'm sure as hell not going to shoot a deer at night no matter how big he is. He should have never been stopped. He did nothing wrong. Is he a crooked coyote hunter? Hell I don't know but from the video and what he was caught doing, he wasn't that night.

I'm all for throwing the book at someone caught doing wrong... But it's impossible in this case to say his intent was to shoot deer at night. That kid might be the straightest kid in 20 counties or he could be as crooked as they come and there's no way to tell from that video. He didn't do a fucking thing wrong.

[Duck Tape]

Tell me how DNR should know if he was hunting when he stops and backs up but does not shoot.

[b35w]

Tell me how DNR should know if he was hunting when he stops and backs up but does not shoot.

I think that is the point of the entire post. You shouldn’t have to prove you’”re not” doing something. You are innocent until proven guilty not the other way around.


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[wbrown609]

Tell me how DNR should know if he was hunting when he stops and backs up but does not shoot.

If he didn’t shoot, he wasn’t hunting. Same way someone walks around Walmart with stuff in their buggy. Not really stealing until they walk out without paying. There is a big difference between shining the qbeam across the field and laying the gun out the window and backing car up and looking at something out the window and then driving on.

[JABIII]

Half the country wants to be communists. The other half is lead by fascist wannabees. The rest of us just want to be free Americans. They will eventually grind us into dust under their boot heels...

[Duck Tape]

So you have never been hunting and not pulled the trigger?

[b35w]

So you have never been hunting and not pulled the trigger?

Yes, but I if I did pull the trigger, it would be on my gun not my binoculars……which is what he had in his hands…..

[wbrown609]

Duck Tape, in this situation, they had pretty much zero evidence he was hunting. You keep trying to go back to nuances and specifics in how the law is written to try to justify this stop and arrest. This was as clear an example of law enforcement overreach and bad behavior as you can get. It is telling that on a very conservative leaning website that pretty much everyone agrees this was BS.

[SilverFox]

Tell me how DNR should know if he was hunting when he stops and backs up but does not shoot.

So he's guilty until proven innocent? Fucking moron

He was driving down the road and backed up to look at a deer. There is nothing illegal about that.