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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Should Have Known Better
Arriving at a hunting camp just before dark, Gonzales County Game Warden Jason Davis and Bastrop County Game Warden Roger Steward found it empty. Davis noticed an ice chest with blood on it and found a quartered deer carcass inside. Steward located a buck's head and a hide in a shed behind the deer camp.
The wardens waited until three hunters arrived and asked if they had any luck. The hunters replied, "No," then Davis asked to see their hunting licenses and noticed no tags were missing. When asked about the deer in the ice chest, one of the hunters told the wardens that his cousin had killed the deer and left to go back to Houston.
After questioning another hunter, Davis found out there were actually two deer in two separate ice chests, one a doe without MLD permits. Steward walked behind the camp in search of the doe head and instead found a fourth hunter hiding in the grass. He and the hunter returned to the camp, where the hunter admitted shooting the doe with a .22-caliber rifle. Another hunter admitted to shooting the untagged buck. One hunter was a probation officer who cooperated and told the truth. The hunter hiding in the grass was a chaplain's assistant in the military.
As reported in the Lone Star Outdoor News
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I for one would find these "hunter news" posts a bit more fun and interesting if I had a link to Texas wild life regulations so that I could understand the funtion of these "tags" doe-rules, etc.
