Getting busted for poaching usually brings consequences, but this is the first time that we’ve heard of someone actually getting prison time for it. Check out the link included below, and then chime in with your thoughts on our Facebook page.
A Lincoln County, Wyoming, man will served a half a year in jail for poaching deer. The man has been sentenced to six months in jail and had his hunting privileges taken away for 20 years for shooting four mule deer bucks, sawing off their antlers, and leaving the carcasses to rot.
The Jackson Hole News & Guide that Stetson Long also was ordered last week to pay the Wyoming Game and Fish Department $16,000 in restitution. Long also lost his fishing privileges for 10 years.