It really too bad that they don't just revoke poachers licenses for life. It's not like these people don't know better. They do and don't care.

It would have been nice to see a loyal hunter take it instead of a poacher.

He must be just an all around great guy--the poaching convictions violated his parole! Let him rot--& lock up your daughters when he gets out.

Good to go ... This guy got what the court system thinks is justified... However he is a repeat offender who has a criminal; history ..(domestic assault and now poaching) seems like he's on the right path in his life.

Very nice deer, too bad it had to be taken illegally. I would have loved for some young hunter to have had the chance to bag that buck!

This punishment won't phase him or rehabilitate him at all. Once out he will consider his debt paid and start all over again. These petty criminals need something to fear other than 245 days of rest and relaxation at our expense. Jail should mean hard labor, little rest, bread/water and one visit a year from friends and relatives. About what our young men are seeing in Iraq.

Here in WV we had a exhibit that we used at fairs and other public meetings called " the Wall of Shame" It was of record book bucks that we had taken from jerks. We donated it to the Cabelas when it opened in Wheeling in our state. At least anyone can view the big bucks now. Don't make the mistake of calling them hunters. I agree with an earlier post take their hunting license for life. They may hunt again but then everyone knows they are illegal and makes it easier for us to catch them again. I spent my entire career trying to catch people like this guy and several of them bit the dust. I hope that something that I did provided an opportunity for some law abiding sportsman . Wouldn't a young hunter have to change his pants if he had killed one like that.

I think that this man got alot worse than what he deserved. He should have gotten a fine and lost his licenses, but locking him up; thats just crazy!!!!!!

Hunting deer is a privilege, not a right. He should loose his hunting license for life. As far as the domestic abuse thing, I think he should be locked in a room with my friend Lizzie who is a seven foot lady with attitude. Once so abused, he would likely never abuse anybody again...

On page 10 of my photo files (click my username and go to photos) there is a photo of a warden haolding the rack of a huge Kansas buck shot by poachers. This was just the biggest buck of many. The guy had a night vision scope on a Browning BAR. He should go to jail IMO.

The poaching violated his parole. Parole? Is there a pattern here. Years ago my family made an honest mistake anyone could make. Cut legs off when butchering, and forgot to load up the leg and tag when we left. We got busted, learned our lesson and have never forgotten since. That is priority 1 on our leaving camp "double-check" list now. This guy has show a repetitious blatant disregard for law and order of all forms. Maybe he will learn his lesson, I hope he does. Good job to all of those involved with the legal process here. We usually only take about officers, lawyers and judges when they do wrong. Thank you for your service.

This low life is just one of many, how many game theifs get away with these violations every year? I think low eithics and disregard for rules and regulations come from lack up adult guidance and mentoring or from children growing up seeing adults shooting out of season, road hunting, trespassing and night hunting to name a few. I see these violations first hand in Arkansas and sadly some are my relatives. I was brought into hunting with rules and the fact if the rules were broke (ever), I'd lose my rights starting from my first hunt at age 6. Parents, uncles friends and relatives need to step up and teach our young that there is ethics and rules in hunting and in life I have cousins that think nothing of shooting rifles in bow season, shooting over the limit, shooting over private property, spotlighting and more, then enter their proudly poached trophys in big buck contest = LOW LIFES. They get away with these crimes because they know the likely hood of seeing an Arkansas Game officer in the woods during oct-feb are slim to none, mostly due to the fact there are only one game officer per county.

Sounds like we know some of the same people in AR,Cgull. I cant believe that some of them are actually proud of it!? I wont go hunting with any of these people ever! I will turn them in if I get the opportunity. The poaching line # in central AR is 8004829262. Its a shame such a magnificent animal is taken by such a low life scumbag.

Man that deer is somethin, I can't imagine shootin it, but it would be awesome.

5 years. . . Hummph! Why should this guy ever be allowed to hunt again. It's Insulting.

so here is my question. shouldn't he have been charged for being in possession of a firearm as well since he had a domestic violence conviction? yep, he got off way too easy on this one!

The jail sentence is stiff, the fine should be more, the license suspension should be forever. He should never be called a hunter again, more like a ex-hunter and recovering poacher.

I don't feel sorry for the guy... He got what he deserved in the eyes of the justice su=ystem... I think the jail, fines loss of hunting privilages reenforce the states willingness to prosecute poachers and sends a clear message.

However the guy is a repeat offender so more than likely he will either go back to his old ways once his sentance is up and not learn anything.

I wonder if they have the 3 strike rule/law in MN and if so that could mean that he will face a much more lengthy jail sentance if he continues on the path he has chosen

Gee Del, the guy had an NVG mounted on a BAR? That is some hardware! I'll bet he needed the bipod! How much money did this guy spend before he even began poaching? A shootable BAR is worth how much these days? NVGs aint cheap neither! (unless you get the kids Eyeclops night vision toy- under $75 bucks for real digital night vision, nothing military grade but pretty cool).
I don't and wouldn't ever poach but that don't mean I don't have uncles and cousins up in the Maine Woods who might have done so in the distant past. I always thought poaching (at night) equated with jacking 'em with a flashlight, which is pretty low dollar, I can almost understand somebody trying to feed their family, but If yer that hard up dude, Sell the Dang BAR and feed yer dependents! Of course when you consider the domestic abuse priors, perhaps locking up this particular Yahoo does both humans and ungulates a favor.
And unfortunately the BAR will sit in an evidence locker, benefiting no-one, either as a shooter or a financial asset for likely longer than the poaching doofus will sit in jail. Pity. I know I am not fond of AR style black rifles, but a Browning Automatic Rifle is in a whole 'nother class. You can keep yer AK's and AR's, gimmie the BAR. Bonnie Parker was said to be able to handle a BAR like a Marine and it would suit me too...

In Ohio the restitution to the State for this buck more than likely would be $7,500+. The fines are based on what a typical high fence trophy hunt would cost for that class buck.

There is something we all can do and that is turn in poachers! In Kansas the Kansas Bowhunters Assn has donated robotic stuffed bucks to F&S to use for for roadside stings. Some members even drive farm roads at night looking for poachers. Bella the BAR mentioned was a sporting rifle with a very expensive night scope not the military version used in the big war.

What an unbelievably impressive rack!! I've hunted all of my life and have never even come close to seeing a mass of bone like that one. The man should face severe penalty's for depriving a legit hunter of claiming this outstanding trophy.

Good point Bella, I'm sure his State DNR would have plenty of projects that could be done with community service time. I also like the comment about him getting a cellmate that's in "FULL RUT". Either would be good payback.

I should clarify, Locking a miscreant in a room with 7 foot Lizzie, the bad guy might get badly whomped on, but he wouldn't get raped. Not By Lizzie at least, she likes girls, although I am certain she might like the opportunity to correct a transgressor about the folly of domestic abuse.

I hope he drops the soap in jail

"Dropping the soap in jail" is a euphemisum for exactly what I object to...Incarceration should be about sequestering those who harm others (and possibly reforming and rehabilitating them) not about abusing people who transgress. Prison should prevent rapists from abusing others, not turn them bisexual and give them new targets. Some of those Zeks in prison are going to get out some day, do you really want them mentally ill when that day comes? Or is the idea to break men so they suicide before their term is up?
"Dropping the soap" is an ugly joke, if a joke it is at all.

bella please stop stick to the issue at hand. that would be the poacher not your ideas as far as incarceration is concerned. the guy deserves to be punished how ever the courts see fit we need to set an example to others thinking of doing the same thing.someone doing things the right way and paying to hunt deserves that deer not him.

Bella, reforming and rehabilitation in prison? Now that's funny! You probably think "correction officers" are something more than jail guards. They don't correct anything or anyone.

The man probably did not have a license to begin with and should not be able to hunt or fish again.Jail is too easy a nice long community service stent is in order.Take his gun,truck and anything else of value.He got of too easy!

He got off way too easy!!! Putting him in jail only gives him a break. If he did it twice before this one in Oct, I'm sure he's done it plenty of other times before these 3, he just never got caught.

What an unbelievably impressive rack!! I've hunted all of my life and have never even come close to seeing a mass of bone like that one. The man should face severe penalty's for depriving a legit hunter of claiming this outstanding trophy.World News

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Never seen such a big buck !That's a pity it had to be poached...
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