10-13-2020, 07:50 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: At the end of the Thirsty Beaver Trail, Pinsky lake, Alberta.
Posts: 24,861
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Originally Posted by elkhunter11
According to the victim, he was sitting in his stand on crown land, not on the shooters land, so did the shooter even hold a cougar license? Was there even an open season for cougar in that wmu? If the shooter was not legally licensed to hunt cougar, and/or he was not in a wmu where there was an open cougar season, that the shooter had no legal right to shoot a cougar. So even if the shooter assumed that the victim was a cougar, his intention to shoot that cougar was not legal. So not only was this a case of negligence with a firearm, if the shooter was not legally allowed to harvest a cougar, it was also a case of someone intending to poach an animal.
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Who knows....just a horrible incident is what we do know. 
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