An 9 year old 15 point trophy buck was poached…
and the fools that committed this idiot act posted photos of it on facebook!
A 15-point buck, known to some as ‘Big Boy’ and others as ‘Stickers,’ was among the most photographed animals at Side Cut Metropark.
Two men were convicted of poaching the deer.
Two poachers convicted of bagging a “celebrity” deer were so proud of their kill that they posted photos on a Facebook page and the state’s wildlife Web site, investigators said.
What the men didn’t know was that amateur photographers had taken hundreds of pictures of the same deer roaming a suburban park where it lived, helping investigators track down the poachers.
The photographers and wildlife watchers who frequently visit the park noticed the 15-point buck nicknamed “Big Boy” was missing last October. A few days later, one of them saw a photo of a man sitting next to the deer’s head, said Steve Thomson, an investigator with the Ohio Division of Wildlife.
“The characteristics were a dead give away that this was the same deer,” Thomson said Friday.
If you’re going to brag about poaching a trophy buck, you’d better have about $15,000 to back it up.
That is how much two men have been ordered to pay in fines and costs, including a record restitution penalty of $13,277 under a new state law, after they were convicted of illegally killing a celebrity white-tailed deer in Side Cut Metropark in early October.
The deer was a large-antlered, 15-point buck known to some Side Cut fans as “Big Boy” and to others as “Stickers,” said Steve Thomson, a wildlife investigator for Ohio Wildlife District 2. It was among the most-often photographed and familiar animals in the park’s ever-growing deer herd and was featured in The Blade last year.
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State’s highest-scoring buck racks were on display at Dixie Deer Classic
by Monica Holland
Don’t hate Stephen Galyean.
It’s not his fault that the first buck he ever felled with an arrow just happened to boast the fifth highest-scoring rack in the history of North Carolina bow hunting.
He really didn’t know that in less than two years of archery he’d bag a Best in Show award from the Dixie Deer Classic for the most outstanding mount among its record 721 entrants.
How could he even wish that just the second buck he’d ever bagged would be a 14-point monster with a rack score adding up to 160?
“I really didn’t realize what I had until the people who owned the farm came over to help me dress it,” Galyean said of his Stokes County harvest. “Only two years as bow hunter — I’ve done made a lot of people mad.”
Galyean’s buck earned the award for overall presentation and the Best North Carolina Typical Bow award for the highest rack score in that category.
The Dixie Deer Classic, sponsored by the Wake County Wildlife Club since it began in 1981, honors all of the state’s top-scoring racks in 23 categories.
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Should hunting be allowed on Sunday in North Carolina? 58% say no!
http://twitter.com/bretwallin/statuses/1296404897
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Sunday bow hunting now allowed in North Carolina
The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission just sent out a press release covering some noteworthy changes to its hunting regulations.
The release mentioned that one item would be of “particular interest” to deer hunters: an addition of an extra week of muzzleloader deer season.
In the news business, we call that burying the lead.
Certainly, the extra week of muzzleloader hunting is important. But I suspect another change would be of at least as much if not more interest. The commission also approved bowhunting on private lands on Sundays.
Let’s say that last year, when the DGIF added the extra week of early muzzleloader season in Western Virginia, they also approved Sunday bowhunting on private lands. Which change would have gotten the most attention?
I’m betting bowhunting on Sunday.
That’s because this kind of change has potential to eventually touch all hunters. You know, it’s the old slippery slope thing. If bowhunting on Sunday turns out to work OK, this could be one of those baby steps toward bringing North Carolina in line with the 40 or so states that don’t single out hunting as one of the few (in many cases, only) activity not allowed on Sunday
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