BURLINGTON, Vt.— A man who bolted antlers to the head of a dead doe and posed for a photograph with the deer was fined $400 and jailed for game violations.[/b]
Marcel Fournier, 19, shot the deer the evening of Nov. 22 and used lag bolts and epoxy to attach a 10-point rack, officials said. He then checked in the kill as lawful game at Barnie's Market.
It's illegal to kill an antlerless deer, and it's also illegal to hunt at night.
The Concord resident admitted to the killing and led a game warden to the deer's remains after an anonymous caller alerted authorities. Fournier said he had "quite a time" drilling and fastening the antlers, authorities said.
Game warden David Gregory said the antlers didn't look or feel right.
"When you grabbed them, you'd feel movement," he said.
Col. David LeCours, chief warden of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, said the size of the antlers relative to the size of the deer seemed off.
"Something wasn't natural about them, in addition to the fact that they weren't natural," he said.
Fournier was sentenced to 10 days in jail Feb. 18 for taking a deer in a closed season. He won't qualify for a state hunting, fishing or trapping license for at least three years.
LeCours said add-on antlers are the stuff of legend, but that it's the first documented case of it in Vermont.

LOL, another budding genius!

Did you get out after those crappie jim?

Are you trying to hijack another thread? If you want to talk about crappies why don't you PM your buddy? I'm tired about all this talk about crappies on a hunting forum.

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I fished a couple of hours last night,yards a mess after a long winter.[]

I caught about a dozen small crappies and three nice bass.

see now thats just not smart, if your going to do that whywould you use a huge rack, vermont just doesn't have the bucks or deer for that matter to jack any of them, i think there should have been more severe sentencings

Wow!!! Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!!!..............

A hunter( by his standards ) in my area got nailed for the same thing about 13 years ago. He was in several surrounding buck pools.With the season nearing the end and having so much money invested in the buck pools,he took drastic measures to win. That is what he did also,bolted horns onto a doe. He got caught when another individual reached down and lifted the deer by the horns to take a better look. The horn gave loose and exposed the bolt.Busted!!!!! [/align]

I didnt mind. Hell, I was just happy the [&:]bird didn't blame the whole fiasco on Alt by telling us that AR's drove the poor guy to a life of crime.

The guys a frenchman, that tells the whole story. [:'(]