I had always thought the issue with "hunters" shooting livestock was urban myth or malicious cretins claiming to not know the difference when they got caught.
After leaving Montana, I subscribed to the local newspaper for several years. There was an article about "hunters" who brought a llama to Roth's meat processing place to have their deer cut up. It was then that I decided that some of those stories were true.
You'd think that someone who had enough interest in hunting to pay the high cost of out of state tags, travel, etc., would've at least looked at a couple of pictures in a field and stream magazine.