A man who poached a white-tailed buck on private property will have to spend every weekend of the deer hunting season in jail for the next five years, Texas Parks and Wildlife officials said.
A Grayson County district court judge ordered the sentence for 34-year-old Whitesboro resident John Walker Drinnon. The sentence begins Dec. 30. He will also be prohibited from buying a hunting license while he’s on probation, the department said. …
He pleaded guilty in October to taking the whitetail deer without landowner consent, the department said. As part of his sentence he was ordered to repay $18,048.10 in restitution for the deer.
An investigation into the hunt of a large cougar by a television show host in Alberta has determined it was legal, says the province.
Steve Ecklund, host of the outdoor show The Edge, bragged about hunting the big cat in early December. He triggered outrage online when he posted several photos of him holding the dead cougar and another of him making a stir-fry from the meat.
Environment officials said Thursday that they investigated after receiving complaints from the public about Ecklund’s hunt of the male cat in an area between Rocky Mountain House and Drayton Valley in east-central Alberta.
State officials are offering a complimentary lifetime hunting license to those who kill one of 24 tagged coyotes in South Carolina.
The S.C. Department of Natural Resources announced Thursday that the reward is part of the state’s Coyote Harvest Incentive Program, according WSPA.
DNR officials said 16 coyotes have already been tagged and released this year, Fox Carolina reported. Another eight coyotes released in 2016 have not been caught yet either.
Hunters must save the carcass for verification to get the free hunting license, Fox Carolina reported.
Coyotes first appeared in South Carolina in the Upstate in 1978 and have spread statewide every since, WSPA reported. They impact deer and small game populations.
A Sacramento County man entered a no contest plea Tuesday to charges of poaching a huge blacktail deer in Sacramento County.
John Frederick Kautz, 51, of Lodi, was charged with possession of an illegally poached deer and falsification of deer tag reporting information, both misdemeanors, following a three-month investigation.
Kautz illegally killed the trophy-sized buck on private property in Wilton in December 2016, two months after the deer season closed in the area. The deer had an antler spread of 31 inches with four antler points on one side and five on the other, which is an unusually large size for this part of California.
Kautz transported the illegally killed deer across state lines to Nevada to have the deer head mounted by a taxidermist. Kautz was also working through the process of scoring the trophy class buck to have it entered into the Safari Club International hunting record book.
Yeah, I’m not sure if I want to see hunters stalking coyotes in public parks. Strange men with guns in public places can be mistaken for bogey men and get shot by mistake by concealed handgun carriers. . . Hunting Coyotes in Cities Only Makes Coyote Populations Grow
Cities have a coyote problem. As the New York Times reported on Tuesday, hunters are increasingly trying to manage the urban coyote populations that have merged with human communities as the latter has spread throughout the continent.
There are plenty of concerns about how wise it is to carry hunting rifles into densely populated cities to shoot canines. But beyond the risks to innocent bystanders and the debate over whether growing urban coyote populations even pose a serious threat to humans, there’s one critical fact that we must keep in mind when deciding if we should hunt urban coyotes: Doing so will likely just make the problem worse.
According to the Times: Some carnivore ecologists argue, though, that moving the hunt into cities will be self-defeating. They say it replicates the very tactics that have allowed coyotes to prosper despite a concerted onslaught against them. In an adaptation that biologists call fission-fusion, when coyotes come under pressure from hunters, their packs split up into lone animals and pairs, they start producing much larger litters, and they migrate into new areas.Coyotes are notorious for rapidly adapting to changing circumstances.
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More than a few highlights come to mind but my top 3 are:
3. Finally finding a load that I am satisfied with for my AR,
2. Getting competent at moving while shooting with my pistols and AR,
+1+. Taking my oldest daughter shooting and, after telling me she had no desire to shoot the AR, watching her grin ear to ear as she nailed the steel with it.
Getting my CCW and learning in December that my son will be getting his. I therefore sacrificed and gave him an early Christmas present– my Ruger SR9c.
Wait, you used the N.Y.T. as a source for the urban coyote hunting study. Pravda wasn’t available? I am not saying hunting in a urban environment is or is not a good thing, but the Times should never be used as a source with out independent verification.
I will be concerned if the state sets up checkpoints at every highway and road into the state. Until then how the hell will anyone know if one drives to Nevada and stocks up there?
This even means that the profession of an plot surveyor is really
a tough one and requirements dedication and commitment.
At the finish of January along with our year end review,
we noted that the macro conditions argued
for rising volatility within the major averages with sideways in order to reduce prices throughout February.
Godrej Garden City presented by Godrej Properties is precisely located in the North-West region of Ahmedabad
considered to be Jagatpur.
I really don’t watch much TV. Recently though I’ve watched a bit of Grimm with my wife.
They make some pistol handling mistakes but overall they don’t do a completely terrible job.
Other than that I re-watched 13 Hours while I was out of state for a month helping out my parents (dad had a fall that put him in the hospital for a week+). I can’t really think of any serious weapon’s handling problems (aside from those by the local militias) in that film, save when Tig forgets the HK69A1… which I think he can be forgiven for.
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More than a few highlights come to mind but my top 3 are:
3. Finally finding a load that I am satisfied with for my AR,
2. Getting competent at moving while shooting with my pistols and AR,
+1+. Taking my oldest daughter shooting and, after telling me she had no desire to shoot the AR, watching her grin ear to ear as she nailed the steel with it.
Getting my CCW and learning in December that my son will be getting his. I therefore sacrificed and gave him an early Christmas present– my Ruger SR9c.
Wait, you used the N.Y.T. as a source for the urban coyote hunting study. Pravda wasn’t available? I am not saying hunting in a urban environment is or is not a good thing, but the Times should never be used as a source with out independent verification.
Springfield 911: Never Forget…your everyday carry piece.
Springfield can blow it out their asses. Sellouts.
To the press.
More then a few bullets in 1 caliber seems to be an arsenal lately.
According to them I can supply a barracks full.
I will be concerned if the state sets up checkpoints at every highway and road into the state. Until then how the hell will anyone know if one drives to Nevada and stocks up there?
This even means that the profession of an plot surveyor is really
a tough one and requirements dedication and commitment.
At the finish of January along with our year end review,
we noted that the macro conditions argued
for rising volatility within the major averages with sideways in order to reduce prices throughout February.
Godrej Garden City presented by Godrej Properties is precisely located in the North-West region of Ahmedabad
considered to be Jagatpur.
I really don’t watch much TV. Recently though I’ve watched a bit of Grimm with my wife.
They make some pistol handling mistakes but overall they don’t do a completely terrible job.
Other than that I re-watched 13 Hours while I was out of state for a month helping out my parents (dad had a fall that put him in the hospital for a week+). I can’t really think of any serious weapon’s handling problems (aside from those by the local militias) in that film, save when Tig forgets the HK69A1… which I think he can be forgiven for.