Well said. To the degree your post contradicts mine, I defer to your position.
I grew up on the small family ranch in SW Texas, and remember my uncles chasing down poachers at night, because they not only helped themselves to the deer, but had “poached” a goat from the pasture more than once.
I suppose things are different in every county, depending on how much damage poachers have caused-in this county, they have shot people’s cattle, goats and even a llama. There are no big rich ranchers close-people have small places, grow and raise livestock for our own use, sale and barter-no one can afford to have people illegally hunting anything nearby-most people butcher and eat the wild hogs they shoot on their property, too-it is good lean pork, especially smoked...