This is from the 9-Nov.-2018 Texas Parks and Wildlife weeky update.

Grass is Always Greener Acting on a report concerning suspicious hunting activity near a family farm, game wardens set up surveillance after discovering a hidden hunting blind and baited shooting lane on adjoining properties.

Wardens witnessed a male suspect sneak out of a barn on the suspect property with a bait bucket and rifle and walk into the wood line to the blind. After a brief wait, wardens heard a rifle shot followed by two additional male subjects coming from the nearby barn to assist the hunter in the field.

The subjects were observed dragging a buck back across a ditch line toward the barn.

The wardens left their observation point and proceeded to the location of the hunter and friends. Upon arrival, they found a 36-year-old and recovered the rifle he used to poach the deer.

Confessions were obtained from everyone involved, including the hunter’s father, and his own 16-year old son.

The violator was leaving his grandfather’s property and hunting a blind he illegally set up on a neighbor’s property.

He shot across that property, his grandfather’s adjoining property, and into a different neighbor’s property, killing an undersized 7-point buck.

This was a true family affair, with four generations of family on the scene: great-grandfather, grandfather, father, and youngest son all present and aware of the illegal hunt.

When asked why he did it, the violator stated he was afraid he would be too busy with work to hunt the opening weekend on someone else’s property. Multiple citations are pending.