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Poached Bighorn? Or just playing the system? #7050780 01/24/18 06:12 AM
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https://www.sltrib.com/news/2018/01/23/p...ighorn-in-utah/

Interesting read. This guy established residency in Utah for the sole purpose of drawing a bighorn tag. Courts said it was illegal and found him guilty of poaching. Costly error on his part on many fronts. Your thoughts?


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It seems that he did break the law, though they weren’t real specific on just how. The jury was convinced pretty easily. The punishment seems a little steep, though. They don’t mess around with bighorn tags.

He’ll just need a rent home in Hawaii, now.

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He’s a good man and was my guide in AZ on my ram. He was above-board on this whole thing. Never tried to hide anything. Lived there the required time. Apparently, the law is you cannot move there just to draw the tag even if you meet the residency requirements. He never disputed the circumstances.

IMO harsh penalty for a good man who has done much for sheep hunting and conservation over the past 40+ years.

He is getting a lot of support from those that actually know him.


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Yeah, they’re treating him like a flat out poacher, and it seems pretty clear that’s not what he is. He could have murdered someone and got off with less.

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I understand the issue, 21 points is a long time to wait but you can't do what you can't do. Lived in Colorado for many years trying to draw tags from coveted areas only to find out that they would give non residents tags at higher percentages which used to drive us crazy. Threatened to put in the draw as nonresident just to up our chances.


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Originally Posted By: Nogalus Prairie
He’s a good man and was my guide in AZ on my ram. He was above-board on this whole thing. Never tried to hide anything. Lived there the required time. Apparently, the law is you cannot move there just to draw the tag even if you meet the residency requirements. He never disputed the circumstances.

IMO harsh penalty for a good man who has done much for sheep hunting and conservation over the past 40+ years.

He is getting a lot of support from those that actually know him.


Is it routine to investigate what would appear to be legal sheep kills in this regard?


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Originally Posted By: Nogalus Prairie
He’s a good man and was my guide in AZ on my ram. He was above-board on this whole thing. Never tried to hide anything. Lived there the required time. Apparently, the law is you cannot move there just to draw the tag even if you meet the residency requirements. He never disputed the circumstances.

IMO harsh penalty for a good man who has done much for sheep hunting and conservation over the past 40+ years.

He is getting a lot of support from those that actually know him.


Is it routine to investigate what would appear to be legal sheep kills in this regard?


IDK. I do know desert sheep tags are very high profile.


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Maybe he should have read the law. At least he still has 3 states to hunt in before he is 79! hammer

It says he can still guide and being a sheep guide all over, he has probably killed everything in North America already.

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He flat out broke the law, yes he poached it. He knew the residency laws and chose to take the shortcut. No way he guided all those years and didn't know the law.

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I read on another forum that where he screwed up is after he drew the tag, but before he went on the hunt, he moved back to Arizona. He was walking a fine line claiming Utah as his primary residence and still living in Arizona most of the time to get the tag. Maybe if he had remained in Utah a little longer, he might have been OK?

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They must have something specific in the law that was not covered in the article, He met the threshold as far as residency it sounds. I wouldn't call it to the level of poaching, in my mind, that's a whole different level done under different circumstances. Most draw states also have concessions iirc for temp residence folks such as military, so their has to be additional written law i'd wager.

Some states also have residency requirements for many things, like working for the state police in Colorado, 12 months there and you can apply and get a job, wonder if they'd fire you if you moved just outside the Colorado line and continued to work your station..

Jury found him guilty, so just thinking there are more "details".


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Originally Posted By: EddieWalker
I read on another forum that where he screwed up is after he drew the tag, but before he went on the hunt, he moved back to Arizona. He was walking a fine line claiming Utah as his primary residence and still living in Arizona most of the time to get the tag. Maybe if he had remained in Utah a little longer, he might have been OK?


I was thinking the same thing. Had he lived in Utah until a few weeks after he killed the ram, would he still have been found guilty?

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Sounds like he didn’t think it through enough, should of bought a house, and stayed thier well past the hunt, or not applied the first year.

He made It obvious what he was doing.

Stupid law in my book, but that’s the law. Now he is a convicted poacher...... I’m suprised our normal poaching pitchforks peeps aren’t hanging him...


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Well you can't be a resident in 2 states, wonder if he had an Arizona hunting license for a resident the same year. If so he may face even more trouble.
No issues if he had established residency but like BoBo stated he knew exactly what he was doing.
Not sure why residency laws are stupid though.

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Originally Posted By: Wytex
Well you can't be a resident in 2 states, wonder if he had an Arizona hunting license for a resident the same year. If so he may face even more trouble.
No issues if he had established residency but like BoBo stated he knew exactly what he was doing.
Not sure why residency laws are stupid though.


Residency laws aren’t stupid, you are either a resident or you aren’t. If you fulfill the requirements you are a res. Having a separate clause for purpose of special Hunting is what is dumb, IMO

But none the less he could of easy beat it with a little more thought process. With 21 pts he was pretty much a 100% draw chance. Wouldn’t of mattered if he sat out a year


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Originally Posted By: Western
They must have something specific in the law that was not covered in the article, He met the threshold as far as residency it sounds. I wouldn't call it to the level of poaching, in my mind, that's a whole different level done under different circumstances.


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It seems that he did break the law, though they weren’t real specific on just how.


Here you go. This is the law...
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(a) "Domicile" means the place:
(i) where an individual has a fixed permanent home and principal establishment;
(ii) to which the individual if absent, intends to return; and
(iii) in which the individual, and the individual's family voluntarily reside, not for a special or temporary purpose, but with the intention of making a permanent home.

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Yeah, they’re treating him like a flat out poacher, and it seems pretty clear that’s not what he is.


They are treating him like a poacher because that is exactly what he is.

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I wouldn't call it to the level of poaching, in my mind, that's a whole different level done under different circumstances.


Had he just obtained the tag and not actually hunted, then he probably would have only been guilty of fraud and not actually of poaching. However, he went hunting and pulled the trigger on a bighorn. Because he did not have a valid tag (not valid as it was obtained illegally), he was poaching. He did not have permission to be hunting bighorn...which is poaching.


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Here is more explanation. Looks like he moved to Utah long enough to get a resident tag and moved out of Utah once he got it. Then he showed up later, when he was no longer a resident, shot the bighorn. No doubt it looks exactly what they are saying. He moved to Utah for the explicit purpose of obtaining a resident bighorn tag and as soon as he got the tag, vacated. He didn't even live in the state long enough to go hunting while still an actual resident of the state.

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“In August 2013, Altimus rented a house in Kanab, Utah. In March 2014, he used his Kanab address to apply for one of 10 desert bighorn sheep permits available to Utah residents that year,” the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR) said in a statement. Altimus reportedly rented a house in Kanab, Utah, but moved out of the home shortly after receiving his hunting permit.

In Oct. of 2014, Altimus allegedly came back to Utah, “where he killed a huge desert bighorn ram using his fraudulently obtained permit,” the DWR said. The poaching reportedly happened on the Zion hunting unit in southwestern Utah.

http://fox13now.com/2018/01/22/hunting-guide-allegedly-poached-bighorn-sheep-in-utah/

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I agree with Western I wouldn’t consider it poaching, but a misinterpretation of the game laws.

The jury didn’t see it that way.


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Originally Posted By: Pitchfork Predator
I agree with Western I wouldn’t consider it poaching, but a misinterpretation of the game laws.

The jury didn’t see it that way.


From what I understand, it wasn the jury that handed down the sentencing. They just found him guilty.

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Originally Posted By: EddieWalker
I read on another forum that where he screwed up is after he drew the tag, but before he went on the hunt, he moved back to Arizona. He was walking a fine line claiming Utah as his primary residence and still living in Arizona most of the time to get the tag. Maybe if he had remained in Utah a little longer, he might have been OK?


If he had stayed a resident from the time he drew the tag until after he killed the sheep, I don’t think we would be discussing this.

It sounds like he moved back to Arizona after he drew the tag and before he actually hunted, which seems like a violation of the letter of the law and definitely the spirit of the law.

Not the same as poaching, in my mind, but not on the up and up either. Ultimately, I’m OK with him being labeled a poacher, but he at least tried to play the game, unlike people that trespass, hunt out of season or pull backstraps and leave the rest to rot, etc.


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I agree with Western I wouldn’t consider it poaching, but a misinterpretation of the game laws.

The jury didn’t see it that way.


From what I understand, it wasn the jury that handed down the sentencing. They just found him guilty.


Colorado has a hunting board for say, that hands down hunt privileges restrictions/revokings. Think of it as a hunting peer jury. Bet it’s same here


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I think so long as the guy legitimately met the residence requirements it shouldn't matter why he moved to the state.

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Although it definitely looks like it was planned, I wonder where in the Utah law it states you cannot rent a home, become a resident, apply for he tag and later move somewhere else?

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Here is more explanation. Looks like he moved to Utah long enough to get a resident tag and moved out of Utah once he got it. Then he showed up later, when he was no longer a resident, shot the bighorn. No doubt it looks exactly what they are saying. He moved to Utah for the explicit purpose of obtaining a resident bighorn tag and as soon as he got the tag, vacated. He didn't even live in the state long enough to go hunting while still an actual resident of the state.

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“In August 2013, Altimus rented a house in Kanab, Utah. In March 2014, he used his Kanab address to apply for one of 10 desert bighorn sheep permits available to Utah residents that year,” the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR) said in a statement. Altimus reportedly rented a house in Kanab, Utah, but moved out of the home shortly after receiving his hunting permit.

In Oct. of 2014, Altimus allegedly came back to Utah, “where he killed a huge desert bighorn ram using his fraudulently obtained permit,” the DWR said. The poaching reportedly happened on the Zion hunting unit in southwestern Utah.

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Says in the last paragraph, taken from his own biography, that he has been sheep hunting every year since 1969. How does a guy do that?

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