Ted Nugent will plead guilty to illegal black bear hunt

[pokerfan]

Embarrassment to hunters everywhere.

Nugent, 63, was on Alaska’s Sukkwan Island in May 2009 filming an episode of his Outdoor Channel television show, “Ted Nugent Spirit of the Wild,” which is described on his website as the “ultimate hands-on conservation lifestyle television show.” According to court documents, he was bow hunting near a bait station designed to attract black bears when he fired an arrow that wounded a bear, which then ran off.

Nugent “failed to locate and harvest the wounded black bear,” the plea agreement said, and then four days later, he shot and killed another black bear at one of the registered bait sites and then transported it off the island.

The problem: Alaska hunting regulations say the first wounded bear fulfilled his bag limit; the second one was an illegal kill. Transporting it off the island made it a violation of the federal Lacey Act.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-ted-nugent-bear-20120420,0,6082266.story

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. I was rooting for the bear, but

even an animal knows eating someone with a name like Turd Nugget will probably make you throw up.

[Swede Atlanta]

2. Unfortunately Alaska will probably name a bridge to nowhere after Nugget boy.....

This is an ass turd if I ever saw one.

First of all, I don't understand the pleasure in hunting down God's creatures for sport. I think there is an underlying psychological deficiency such as a need to dominate. I can understand when this was to provide for your family. But today it is purely for sport and this is no "sport". The hunters have technology in the form of infrared radar, high-power rifles, etc. that change this from a fair contest of man versus animal to shooting fish in a barrel.

And Nugent is probably not capable of anything else. He is so full of hate. I would almost feel sorry for him but maybe next time on his bear hunt it will be more fair and the bear has a chance at winning.

[PotatoChip]

3. What a stupid F***

Had to use 'bait sites'. Figures.

What a mighty hunter!

[Quantess]

4. Go back to shitting your pants, Ted Nugent!

Living in shit-and-urine-encrusted pants for an entire week just to avoid Vietnam War Draft.
How the fuck can anyone take anything you say or do seriously, after that?

[Ilsa]

5. He didn't track his quarry?

He was hunting in what amounts to being a big open zoo?

Lame Lame Lame.

[Kaleva]

7. There was no blood trail

Apparently the arrow grazed the bear and stuck in the ground.

http://www.adn.com/2012/04/20/2433298/ted-nugent-admits-illegal-bear.html#storylink=cpy

Since there was some blood where the bear was hit, the animal counted towards Nugent's bag limit of one bear.

[Canuckistanian]

6. He's even a piss-poor hunter

Failing to pursue and kill a wounded animal AND not complying with the law, which conscientious hunters know are in place to CONSERVE animals for the ecology AND future hunters.

[Kalidurga]

8. At least his timing was good.

He got to be linked to Rmoney, before pleading guilty.

[pinboy3niner]

9. A compelling reason to support the Right to Arm Bears nt

[Aerows]

11. LOL!

[sabrina 1]

12. Lol, I would love to see that! Armed bears, it seems only fair.

[Aerows]

10. Hunters?

He's an embarrassment to the human race.

All hat and no cattle defines this one.

[Zorra]

13. Terrible Ted the Mighty Hunter wounded a defenseless bear

near a bait station and then could not track it. (spits with disgust)


"Spirit of the Wild ultimate hands-on conservation lifestyle television show" my ass.

The bear may have suffered a slow, agonizing death. That's Truly Terrible, Ted. Bear meat is greasy and tastes like shit anyway. I don't understand why some people get jollies from killing critters if they are not going to eat them.

Many bow hunters don't practice regularly, some don't practice at all, and they can't hit the broad side of a barn at 20 yds. Many couldn't track a lone old heifer with diarrhea in a rodeo ring with 6 inches of fresh snow on the ground.

People should have to take a strict practical Bow and Arrow proficiency test before they are allowed to hunt with a bow. Bow hunting is a precision skill, and you have to be very good at it to make a kill shot. Far too many animals get wounded by unskilled bow hunters that can't track.

[Life Long Dem]

15. "a defenseless bear"?

I take it you never had a fight with a bear.

[Paladin]

17. A Distracted Bear.....

...drawn into arrow-shooting range by a bait station. Real sportsmanship in action......

(Sarcasm alert, for those dim enough to require it.)

[Life Long Dem]

20. Agree

The hunt is the sport.

[4th law of robotics]

22. Close up sure

but I'm guessing Nugent didn't wrestle with the bear then kill it with his own hands.

That kind of bear hunting I'd be ok with.

But killing a large predator (which is next to worthless as meat and doesn't need culling) simply for a trophy strikes me as a bit silly when you're up to half a mile a away and the animal has no chance really.

[Life Long Dem]

23. He did have a bow and arrow.

Not as easy as with a gun.

[4th law of robotics]

25. Fair enough

but still a decided advantage over the bear.

[bmbmd]

14. Let's talk about the Outdoor Channel for a bit.

Veteran writer, outdoorsman, conservationist, expert of all things outdoors Jim Zumbo voices his opinion on automatic weapons, saying there is no place for them in hunting. In the furious melee which followed, his show on the channel was cancelled, his reputation ruined, and, to add insult to injury, he was trudged to Texas to go automatic weapon hunting with one Ted Nugent in an attempt to rehabilitate his hook and bullet status. He was stalked, threatened, and otherwise humiliated by the very sportsmen he had been entertaining and educating for more than forty years. Nugent, on the other hand, gets convicted in Alaska, thrown out of Michigan for game law violations, fined in California for illegal hunting activities, dodges the draft, has sex with underage girls, and, to top it off, threatens bodily harm and mayhem to a sitting president of the United States. Still, he is the patron saint of this so-called family-oriented network. Well-thanks but no thanks. Neither Ted nor his network will be welcome in my home.

[Kaleva]

16. One is looking at serious jail time if one goes hunting with an automatic weapon.

It's been illegal to hunt with an automatic weapon in every state for many decades. Considering that it's been against the law to import into and manufacture in this country automatic weapons for sale to civilians, those weapons that can be legally owned are very expensive. A fully automatic AK-47 in good condition is worth about $16,000.00 to $20,000.00.
Take that automatic gun out hunting and one isn't looking at paying a fine and doing community service. You're looking at spending many years in Federal prison.

[derby378]

19. I've found one available for around $6,000

But yeah, I think the hunting charge itself would be enough to endanger Nugent's NFA tax stamps.

[Kaleva]

26. The condition of the weapon determines the cost.

I don't doubt you found one for $6k. The ones I've seen, after doing much searching on the internet, were in the price range I mentioned. Other sites stated they had one or two available but you had to call to get the price which I didn't do.

[Johnny Rico]

21. Zumbo was criticizing the use of semiautomatic weapons, not full autos.

[Johnny Rico]

18. Zumbo was criticizing the use of semiautomatic weapons, not automatic ones.

A rather crucial distinction, given that AR-15 style rifles are now the most popular centerfire rifles in America. His downfall was entirely self-inflicted for promulgating such an absurd point of view.

[Rex]

24. People that hunt just for the 'sport' alone, SUCK.

nt.