A deer poaching case involving a distinctive vehicle, an alert citizen, and a groundswell of public interest has concluded with fines and license suspensions for a Roosevelt, Utah man. A Citizens Against Poaching (CAP) call started it all. In early November of 2014, a concerned citizen called the CAP hotline to report what he thought to […]
Two Tennessee men have been banned from hunting in 44 states for the rest of their lives, fined thousands of dollars and are sentenced to community service for numerous poaching violations in the most severe penalties handed out in the state wildlife agency’s history. Densibel Calzada and Eddy Albert violated dozens of state wildlife regulations when […]
One of the worst things about hunting and fishing is the egotistical, stupid, ignorant and jealous crap that spews from people’s mouths and fingers online about someone else’s success. Kill a few wood ducks or a small buck? Well, you’re not a “real” duck hunter because those aren’t greenhead mallards! You’re not a “real” deer […]
I’ve touched on this topic previously at this blog, but today’s visuals help drive the point home a little more clear. I’ve long-held the contention that anyone who argues against baiting for deer — yet plants food plots or maintain mineral sites — are hypocrites. Plain and simple. What’s more, anyone who argues against legal […]
Politics and biology don’t always mesh like peanut butter and jelly, and sometimes that can have results that affect hunters in the long run. The Deer Project leader for the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries & Parks submitted his resignation days before the state’s politically-appointed wildlife commission relaxed a “line of sight” regulation for deer hunters […]
A North Carolina man who claimed to have killed a state record non-typical white-tailed deer with a bow admitted to faking the news and screwing in a set of antlers from Pennsylvania on the deer killed in North Carolina. Nick Davis, of Elkin, N.C., admitted to N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission officers that the story was […]
In 2013, Ryan Bendelow of Michigan traveled to Illinois and endured what might be one of the worst nightmares an ethical hunter can experience. For an act of decency — showing respect to a stranger he believed was a fellow hunter — Bendelow paid a high price. By Keri J. Butt For Deer & […]
Benjamin N. Chason has been ordered to pay $1.6 million in fines and restitution, the largest sum of money ordered of an individual to pay for a wildlife crime in the United States, following his guilty plea in U.S. District Court. Chason, 61, of Climax, Ga., pleaded guilty and was sentenced in U.S. District Court for three charges related to […]
Sentencing was administered to a young poacher for killing approximately 40 deer last autumn and winter just because he wanted to do it. Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources officials say Joshua D. Peterson, of Mondovi, killed almost 40 deer with a rifle and let them lay where they died. He did this last autumn and winter. Officials […]
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division agents cited four people in Livingston and East Feliciana parishes for alleged deer hunting violations on August 18. LDWF agents cited Edward A. Slaven III, Edward A. Slaven IV, 22, and Donald J. Weaver, all of Denham Springs, and Maegan C. Chavers, 25, of Liberty, Miss., for […]