Nugent Acted Ethically in Alaska Bear Hunt, If Not Legally | Alaska Dispatch
April 30, 2012
By Craig Medred
Who knows how many lies Ted Nugent has now told in relation to the Southeast Alaska bear hunt that got him in trouble with the law, but it’s time someone rises in his defense on the subject of hunting ethics. On that one subject, too much is being said by too many who know nothing about hunting, and much of it is unfair to Nugent.
Let us start with the comments of an Anchorage newspaper columnist — a perky, young, city woman — who wouldn’t know a .375-caliber H&H rifle from a .243-caliber, and thus doesn’t possess a clue as to why one one them is bad for hunting bears. She hints that Nugent, who got in trouble for wounding one Southeast bear and then killing another, might, in fact, have killed two bears.
“The extent of its (the first bear’s) injuries is unclear,” she writes.
Well, if one believes the videotape of the hunt and an account of the hunt Nugent wrote for a publication called “Texas Fish & Game” immediately after the hunt (and there is no reason to disbelieve either), the extent of the injuries to the bear are actually pretty clear. Here’s what Nugent wrote happened after a search for the bear ended when a blood-trail quickly dried up, a sign the animal had stopped bleeding.
“Deciding to gather reinforcements back at the Eldorado (boat), we played the tape (of the shooting) on the HD big screen and stopped the frame when the arrow struck. What we saw shocked everybody, for the arrow did indeed hit perfectly—but upon impact, the nearly horizontal arrow abruptly turned near vertical and instead of penetrating the ribcage, sliced just under the skin following the contour of the ribcage, exiting on the outside of the ribs on the same side it hit. Phenomenal. My tree stand was quite high, and the angle of the shot rather acute, thereby allowing the broadhead to slide down the rib instead of blasting through it.”
This sort of thing is not uncommon. It can happen almost as easily with a bullet as with an arrow, and in cases such as that described in detail by Nugent the injuries to the animal are not fatal. In this case, the bear suffered an arrow cut along its flank. In the world of bears, it was tantamount to a paper cut on a human. Others who have seen the videotape to which Nugent refers confirm the story he tells. There is no doubt on the part of anyone who knows anything about hunting that the bear survived. Click Link Below For Full Story!
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Ted Nugent praises Lawrence’s ‘Hunger Games’ hunting form- USA Today
March 30, 2012
- By Murray Close, AP
By Bryan Alexander
Jennifer Lawrence had been praised from all corners for her Hunger Games performance — even rocker/bowhunting enthusiast Ted Nugent has chimed in.
Nugent, a member of the Bowhunters Hall of Fame, loves how realistically Lawrence carries herself as bow-wielding Katniss Everdeen in the movie.Apparently Lawrence hit the bullseye with the performance.
“All of us archers and bowhunters are so very happy to see real honest-to-God archery form being displayed properly for a change,” Nugent tells USA TODAY. “Proper archery is one of life’s most beautiful ballets, especially when executed by a beautiful woman like Jennifer.” Click Link Below For Full Story!
via Ted Nugent praises Lawrence’s ‘Hunger Games’ hunting form-USA Today
NUGENT: Happy National Hunting and Fishing Day
September 23, 2011
Ted Nugent pleads no contest to Yuba County deer hunting charges | News10.net | Sacramento, California
August 18, 2010
MARYSVILLE, CA – Rock star and hunting enthusiast Ted Nugent pleaded no contest last week to charges stemming from a television appearance earlier this year that showed the rocker using forbidden methods to kill a young deer.An attorney for Nugent, 61, entered the plea in Yuba County Superior Court Friday to misdemeanor counts of baiting a deer and not acquiring an authorized signature after killing a deer, according to California Department of Fish and Game spokesman Patrick Foy.Foy said the case started when two California game wardens saw Nugent kill a young deer with a bow and arrow in Yuba County on Nugent’s Outdoor Channel series “Spirit of the Wild” last February.”They watched him appear to shoot a spiked buck, which is an illegal buck to take, because it’s too small. And he had it right there on television, and it wasn’t live, it was taped,” Foy said. Click Link Below For Full Story!
Bandera Texas Newspaper- What do deer think? Nugent knows
January 23, 2009
Contributed
Editor’s note: this story about Ted Nugent, NRA supporter and hunting enthusiast, came to me via email. It’s probably apocryphal, but was too good to pass up.)
Ted Nugent, rock star and avid bow hunter from Michigan, was being interviewed by a French journalist and animal rights activist. The discussion came around to deer hunting.
The journalist asked, “What do you think is the last thought in the head of a deer before you shoot him? Is it, ‘Are you my friend?’ or is it ‘Are you the one who killed my brother’?”
Nugent replied, “Deer aren’t capable of that kind of thinking. All they care about is, ‘What am I going to eat next? Who am I going to screw next? And, can I run fast enough to get away? They are very much like the French.”
The interview ended.
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