If I’m sadly misinformed, why do you agree with me, hmmmm? Well, yeah, in that first paragraph you agree with me, i.e., you are right. Then you fly off the road.

I’ll bet that if you look at the OR game regulations you’ll find out YOU better read your OR game regulations. This from – wait for it – the 2010 regs:

“Predatory Animals are coyotes, rabbits, rodents, and feral swine which are or may be destructive to agricultural crops. Therefore these animals have no closed season, bag limit or weapons restriction.”

See that coyote in there? Hidin’ from yuh, wudnit? They frequently use cover like that, to avoid hunters who don’t read the game regs. You can ONLY take a coyote in OR because THEY ARE MENTIONED as having no limit.

See the porcupine in there? Better put your gun away, son, if not. They are covered under “rodents.”

See the rabbits in there? LOTS, dude. NOTORIOUS users of cover. If you don’t read, that is, past the ‘cover’ of the game regs.

You can shoot, club, trap, drown, chase down with dogs, etc. any or as many of them as you want. THE REGS SAY SO, SPECIFICALLY.

So, you wanna test me out there, son, you just go shoot yerself sumpin’ that ain’t mentioned in them thar regs. Then let ol’ Dr. DWA show you:

1) yes they are; or
2) nice sasquatch, buddy! And good luck with the law.

As for the contention that if you were alone in the woods, you could get away with a “self-defense” claim. Well, I wouldn’t hang my hat on that one either. From my time in Alaska I can tell you that the out-of-state “fishermen” who just happened to “defend themselves” against Brown Bear attacks were investigated just as thoroughly as if it had been a human that they had killed (I think the penalty might even be worse to be honest), and a number of them had been found to have just used self defense as an excuse to kill a Brownie. They did jail and paid as much as $10k in fines. Some places take that stuff very seriously.

DWA, I am afraid that you are sadly misinformed. At least here in Oregon, hunting is NOT illegal, but it IS a licensed activity (like driving). And there ARE certain species for which specific tags are required in order to hunt them. Additionally, there are other species which the law says can only be hunted during certain times of the year, other species for which specific bag limits are imposed even though there is no seasonal limitation, and even some species which are protected from predation by hunters altogether (song birds, for instance, and moose and wolves — even though it has yet to be proven that those two species actually “live” in Oregon).

For other species, NOT SPECIFIED BY THE GAME REGULATIONS, there is no season or bag limit imposed. Animals that fall within this category, but which are not named in the game regulations, include (but are not limited to) coyotes, porcupines, rabbits, and I would bet, unicorns and sasquatch.

In fact, since there is no bag limit, why stop with just one unicorn, or one sasquatch?

“Chris Gilkey, Adams County Wildlife Officer, said cougars and mountain lions are not regulated by the state of Ohio and can be killed by anyone with a hunting license. He also said they can be killed without a license if they pose a threat to human life or livestock.” (circa May, 2009)

If its “one-on-one” in the woods, who is to say whether or not the animal actually posed a threat or not. Like history, the winner (survivor) writes the “truth.”

Wild mammals and parts thereof, which shall include their green hides, are protected EXCEPT as authorized by a hunting or trapping season, and include: woodchuck, gray squirrel, fox squirrel, eastern cottontail rabbit, swamp rabbit, white-tailed deer, muskrat, beaver, raccoon, opossum, least weasel, long-tailed weasel, mink, striped skunk, red fox, gray fox, badger and coyote.

Wild mammals and parts thereof, which shall include their green hides, are protected throughout the year and include: grey/timber wolves, river otter, bobcat, flying squirrel, red squirrel, eastern woodrat, golden mouse, rice rat and bats.

It shall be unlawful for any person to take any other living wild animal not covered above without the permission of the landowner or tenant.

Nothing you say addresses anything I did. Except I think it’s *your* sensitivity about bearing arms that’s coming to the fore here, not mine.

Killing cryptids is breaking an established law – the law against shooting ANY animal you are not EXPLICITLY allowed to shoot. (If you are allowed to shoot as many animals as you want to bring the desired population down to zero, it is because the hunting regs EXPLICITLY allow you to. They name the species and set the limit: open all year; no limit.)

I’m right. Period. Unless you show otherwise.

(You won’t. )

This is wrong.

There could be such laws, because there ARE. All across this great land of ours, in fact.

If you shoot a unicorn, a brontosaurus, or a sasquatch, you better hope the law doesn’t find out. Because it’s ILLEGAL.

In fact, hunting in the United States is ILLEGAL. Period.

OK, with exceptions.

Which are called – wait for it – hunting regulations.

Cutting to the chase: if you shoot anything other than what the hunting regulations say you can shoot, you have committed a crime. This goes for shooting known animals out of season; known animals for which the season is closed; and ANY ANIMAL NOT SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED IN THE REGULATIONS as OK to hunt

Hunting regs were designed – specifically – to harness yahoos who take the right to bear arms a bit too far. If you aren’t shooting at something that you have been told – by the letter of the regs – is legal, you are shooting illegally. Period.

Killing cryptids is illegal, folks. Get a camera if that’s the trophy you want.