Say it ain't so Ted

[buckhunter]

On the other side of the fence.

Last night I watched a Nature show on PBS about the American Eagle. I was interesing until they got to spot when they showed an eagle eating away at a winter kill deer. They spent several minutes berating hunters for shooting and leaving an animal in the woods and have an eagle eat it an develope lead poisioning from the bullet fragments. They implied that all hunter shoot and leave animals in the woods. Plus the bullet thing was something that could only be believed in California or Massachusetts.

[PJgunner]

There's a bit more to this than what was said here. Yes, Ted did kill an "underage deer. Maybe not. In California, does and spikes are sacred cows. The deer he killed could have been much older, yet only be a spike. Ted's mistake was not being properly informed on California's rediculous law on spke which are genetically defective deer that may never even grow one fork on an antler. This was the law when I did my first deer hunt one labor Day 1949 and is still the law today.
Ted did not bait the deer, the persons guiding him did that. I don't remember all the details but you can get them over on 24 hour campfire in the Ted Nugent poacher thread.
Yes Ted had to pay a fine but he manned up, paid it and admitted he was in the wrong. IIRC, he pled no contest.Califfornia has some of he mose screwed up hunt reg thanks to all license money going to the general fund and the head people in Fish & Game being political hacks controlled by the ecoweenies. The population of California's deer herd is so screwed up that unless an awful lot of spikes and does are not emoved, deer hunting will only get worse.
Paul B.