Really it's got nothing to do with pinching the barb or not and everything to do with having yet another law imposed upon us that serves no purpose. I'm all for laws that serve a purpose but I can't see how anyone can't have a problem with an unneccessary law but apparently some don't. At some point we have to protect our personal freedoms. Anyone of us could be busted for this. It's easy not to pinch a barb down to a CO's satisfaction. You don't, you get caught and suddenly you are a poacher over a law that made no sense in the first place. That's why I have a problem with it.