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Press Release
Hunting show host receives lifetime hunting ban in Kansas
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Kansas


WICHITA, KAN. – A Georgia man was sentenced to five years of probation and ordered forever banned from hunting and fishing in Kansas after illegally hunting game.

According to court documents, Matt Jennings, 35, of Bowdon, Georgia, pleaded guilty to two counts of illegal taking of a white tail deer in interstate commerce.

On November 11, 2022, Jennings killed an antlered deer near Florence, Kansas. His antlered deer tag did not allow him to take a deer in this part of the state. The next day the defendant drove to Oklahoma where he fraudulently registered the kill in Oklahoma using an Oklahoma electronic tag.

On November 19, 2022, the defendant killed another antlered deer near Wakeeney. Although he had a valid tag for that area of Kansas, killing of a second antlered deer in the same year is a violation of state law. He illegally exceeded the bag limit of one antlered deer per season.

The defendant hosts a hunting show titled “The Game”. These two illegal hunts were featured as part of his show.

A federal judge ordered Jennings to pay $15,000 in restitution to the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, pay a $10,000 fine, and forfeit the antlers from the white tail deer he illegally hunted.

During his five-year probation, Jennings is prohibited from guiding, hunting, trapping, fishing, or being with anyone engaged in those activities in Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma, Colorado, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks investigated the case with assistance provided by the U.S. Secret Service, Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, Missouri Department of Conservation, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, and Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Matt Treaster prosecuted the case.

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Updated July 23, 2025

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Originally posted by Kathi:

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks investigated the case with assistance provided by the U.S. Secret Service, Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, Missouri Department of Conservation, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, and Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division.

U.S. Secret Service?

All for clicks!

I believe Bear Archery just dumped him.

Not very smart and reflects badly on hunting generally.

Somebody must have ratted him out.

No sympathy whatsoever.

A story that keeps repeating itself. 99% of hunting shows and influencers are terrible for hunting and willing to do anything to be the Big Swinging D*@K of the mountains. Just plain ole con men in camo.

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Originally posted by KevinNY:
A story that keeps repeating itself. 99% of hunting shows and influencers are terrible for hunting and willing to do anything to be the Big Swinging D*@K of the mountains. Just plain ole con men in camo.

All true!

I dunno.
most of them seem to have a lot of 'good friends' all over the place that let them come hunt on their ranches every year or so.

A lot of these so-called "whisper" channel stars are a joke to me. Also, except for the top tier, a lot of them are hand to mouth "wannabes". As you can tell by my comments, they bore the S@@$t out of me.

He deserved to lose his hunting privileges in all 50 states under the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact Act.