think they was me English teacher :

Who in the world can’t use the correct spelling of a word?

I’m I write or am I right?

Because the laws are written by folks like this:

That one does rank way up there....

If a Pronghorn antelope is not an antelope, then what is it?

WE ARE DOOMED

Pronghorn are a specie unto its self, but for many years probably longer than any of us have been alive they have been called to pronghorn antelope so wording covers them quite well historically. True antelope do not shed their horns but the pronghorn does.

Home, home on the range, where the deer and antelope play...

When I grew up, the county wrote the game laws. I remember when Dickens County had a bear season.

I looked to us as thought you flat out did not understand the message the text was trying to convey, so I wrote it in a new format.

And, if you can't take some ribbing on an honest mistake you made, there are thousands of job sites around the world, ran by blue collar, red blooded Americans, where you would have a miserable time. This forum is no different. In my profession, I learned long ago, when you make a mistake, take your licks from your peers. If you dig in your heels, things will get far worse.

You have taken it out of context and the wording from the hunting annual is just a summary of wildlife code and state laws. Being a general summary there are lots of places in it where more than one regulation or statute is summarized into one sentence or paragraph. If you read the entire paragraph you can see it is just explaining that the latter is a higher crime. Basically....
Class C Misdemeanor waste of game or fail to retrieve for game animal killed while legally hunting
Class A Misdemeanor waste of game for fail to retrieve for illegally killed big game animal

From the Outdoor Annual
Waste of Game
It is an offense (Class C misdemeanor) if a person while hunting kills or wounds a game bird or game animal and intentionally or knowingly fails to make a reasonable effort to retrieve the animal or bird and include it in the person's daily or seasonal bag limit. It is an offense if a person intentionally takes or possesses a game bird, game animal, or fish and intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly, or with criminal negligence, fails to keep the edible portions of the bird, animal, or fish in an edible condition. It is a Class A misdemeanor to fail to retrieve or to keep in an edible condition a whitetail or mule deer, pronghorn antelope, or desert bighorn sheep hunted without landowner consent; from a vehicle, boat, or aircraft (including unmanned aerial vehicles); on a public road; at night; or with the aid of a light.

Notice Actual Wildlife Code below does not mention anything about the illegally taken big game part or the Misdemeanor part. That part comes from a different place. If the outdoor annual included every word of every regulation and statute it would be comprised of several large books.

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Sec. 62.011. RETRIEVAL AND WASTE OF GAME. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), it is an offense if a person while hunting kills or wounds a game bird or game animal and intentionally or knowingly fails to make a reasonable effort to retrieve the animal or bird and include it in the person's daily or seasonal bag limit.

(b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), it is an offense if a person intentionally takes or possesses a game bird, game animal, or fish and intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or with criminal negligence fails to keep the edible portions of the bird, animal, or fish in an edible condition.

(c) It is an offense if a person while hunting kills or wounds a desert bighorn sheep, pronghorn antelope, mule deer, or white-tailed deer in violation of Section 61.022, 62.003, 62.0031, 62.004, or 62.005 and intentionally or knowingly fails to make a reasonable effort to retrieve the animal or intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or with criminal negligence fails to keep the edible parts of the animal in an edible condition.

(d) In this section:

(1) "Edible condition" means fit for human consumption. The term does not include any portion of a game bird, game animal, or fish that is:

(A) bruised by bullet, shot, or arrow, or otherwise destroyed as a result of harvest;

(B) decayed or rotting; or

(C) obviously infected or diseased.

(2) "Edible parts" means the meaty portions of a carcass that are retained for consumption after quartering as defined in Section 42.001(8).


Acts 1975, 64th Leg., p. 1214, ch. 456, Sec. 15, eff. Sept. 1, 1975. Amended by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 267, art. 3, Sec. 110, eff. Sept. 1, 1985; Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 267, art. 4, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985; Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 959, Sec. 7, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.

Amended by:

Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 138 (S.B. 1121), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2009.

Say what? How long ago was that and did anyone actually see bears?

Bingo.

And all laws are aimed at criminals who don’t respect laws. It doesn’t change the fact that the law is written for the reason BOBO explained above. In fact, it’s written that way so that LEO has the ability to and leverage to punish poachers.

No but there were still hunting seasons posted for bears and mule deer in counties that there had not been any animals seen in years. I can remember seeing those seasons still in writing in the 60's and maybe even into 70's.

irregardless, i r right and you to am wright, ain't that write? I think we have 3 different spin-off topics going in this one thread. I wonder what the record is?

OP, you have to read the entire statute for it to make sense.

"It is an offense (Class C misdemeanor) if a person while hunting kills or wounds a game bird or game animal and intentionally or knowingly fails to make a reasonable effort to retrieve the animal or bird and include it in the person's daily or seasonal bag limit. It is an offense if a person intentionally takes or possesses a game bird, game animal, or fish and intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly, or with criminal negligence, fails to keep the edible portions of the bird, animal, or fish in an edible condition. It is a Class A misdemeanor to fail to retrieve or to keep in an edible condition a whitetail or mule deer, pronghorn antelope, or desert bighorn sheep hunted without landowner consent; from a vehicle, boat, or aircraft (including unmanned aerial vehicles); on a public road; at night; or with the aid of a light."

In a nut shell, it's a Class C Misdemeanor to do it while legally hunting. It's a Class A Misdemeanor to do it while illegally hunting.

3 isn’t even close

The judge as you stand before him!!!!!!

I'm not a fan of the way TPWD writes their hunting brochure every year.
I always figured that maybe it was just me, but I'm happy to see I'm not the only one!

Cee...now this is wut I love about the Texas Hunting For'em....We all get a chance to xpress our views on vareous topicks....it's not simply a kweschun of write or rong, but what the law says. In this kayce, what the law is attempting to do is provide addichunal penaltees for poching wile at the same time, ashure that the meet is well cared for and thus capable of being donated to food pantrees, shelters or families in kneed. After all, you get caught comiting any of those violashions I can't see them letting you just take the deer home....that wood be rewarding bad behavor and incongruous with the intent of the law....

ImTheReasonDovesMourn writes it with crayons.

got held back in first grade, grammer, got teased & bullied... tis at the top of the ignorance list on this forum... actually did get D- in grammer, its a hunting forum , others use the little smiley faces (emoji)... & in fairness ta others, my posts can b difficalt ta read... . As pappy say's : " i gotta be me. no one else wants the job.. " FACT... Hunting - what once was price of foodstamps tis sowly become a richmans sport... . yet people focus on d grammer...

Yeperdooddles. Ya'lls sum crazy hunturs, but ah lovs ya all. Hapy Nu Yere!