08.13.10

The Small Spirit of the Wild Mean Man

Posted in Extremism, Ted Nugent at 1:43 pm by George Smith

Ted Nugent loves to brag of his skills as a hunter. In interview, he regularly carps about how excellent he is as a steward of the wild.

And, very recently, he was named the favorite celebrity hunter in Outdoors magazine.

But if you’re read these continuing posts on Uncle Ted, you’ve come to see his true character. It’s a veritable banquet of serious flaws in demeanor and lapses in sound judgment. So readers will not be surprised to read this next item on the alleged mighty hunter:

Rock star and gun rights advocate Ted Nugent was fined $1,750 today in Yuba County Superior Court after pleading no contest to baiting deer on his hunting show “Spirit of the Wild.”

Yuba City attorney Jack Kopp, representing Theodore Anthony Nugent, 61, entered a no contest plea to Department of Fish and Game charges of baiting deer and not having a deer tag “countersigned” at the closest possible location, said Deputy District Attorney John Vacek.

Baiting deer is legal in some states but not in California, said state Fish and Game spokesman Patrick Foy.

Furthermore:

Nugent was originally facing a charge of killing a “spike” — an immature buck — on the program but the charge was dropped during negotiations between his attorney and the Yuba County District Attorney’s Office, said Foy.

A spike is a deer with two antlers that have not yet “forked,” Foy said.

A Department of Fish and Game warden saw the show in March and “just about fell out of his chair” when he saw Nugent with the buck, according to Foy.

A subsequent investigation led to the baiting charge.

If you grew up in a community of hunters, and DD did in Schuylkill County, PA, knocking off a spike buck is about the worst thing you can do.

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