As I was reading through some articles on the internet this morning I came across an interesting article about how a police chief in Montana was charged with shooting moose illegally. This guy took his fourteen year old adopted son hunting on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, where they shot four moose. Neither the police chief or his son are tribal members of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, but the son was born on the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Indian Reservation hear in North Dakota. Since they are not tribal members they would be required to buy a tribal liscense to hunt there which they did not do. Also they shot the moose on July 4th when the season is closed. When he was charged with shooting the moose he actually offered the game wardens a moose burger at the police station. Not only is it disappointing that they shot the moose out of season where they were not supposed to be hunting, but he is a police chief and he also is not being a good role model for his adopted son. I hope that they throw the book at him for shooting those moose, and I hope that he looses his job because he obviously does not have much regard for the law. Because of people doing things like this it makes all hunters look bad because this type of thing makes the news, but the good things that hunters do very seldom make the news. It is very disappointing that this is what makes the news when there are so many more positive things that hunters do, for example the hunters feeding the hungry programs where hunters donate the meat from animals that they harvest and might not eat all of it themselves.

One thing that stood out to me about this article is that it was short and to the point which was good considering the way that the article was written. The first thing that I noticed is that the writer misspelled the name of the town where this guy was the police chief which is Poplar, Montana. In the first sentence of the article the author spelled the name of the town as Polar, Montana. If this article would have been any longer than it was I probably would not have read any more of it after seeing that mistake in the first sentence.

Here is the link to this article: http://www.kxmc.com/getArticle.asp?ArticleId=344108