ill Busbice of Outdoor Channel and A&E's "Country Buck$" has been fined $23,000 and given a suspended jail sentence for poaching in Wyoming.

The October incident took place on Spring Creek Ranch, a property owned by the "Wildgame Nation" star, Billy A. Busbice Jr.

Busbice was caught when Kemmerer Game Warden Chris Baird was told by other hunters of an odd hunting incident.

The hunters told Baird they saw a man filming a hunter who shot two elk.

Baird said he met with Busbice, who admitted to having accidently killed a calf elk while trying to harvest a large bull.

Busbice had all of his game and fish license privileges revoked for two years, including in his home state of Louisiana.

I've watched one of his hunting shows and that was enough. Trying to hide the elk and still shooting the big bull makes this guy seem like a self entitled rich prick who got what he deserves!

What an a hole!!!

Seems like a segment on the shows about evils of circumventing hunting laws/regulations would have bee good as well as some community service on public hunting lands.

NOT knowing his real financial status, but 23 grand may be too easy to just pay off.

$23,000 pretty stiff for a game violation anywhere for a calf elk! Figure that by the pound!! However, I don't feel sorry for him getting caught with his hand in the cookie jar..He sets a terrile example for the kids that watch his show, hope the TV boys dropped him in the grease!

bet tv network paid his fine.then dumped him

He is not the first, I recall some archer that had a wall full of huge mule deer some years ago and turned out he was hunting in the Winter feed grounds for mule deer..Sure easy to shoot a big one there...He should have been stringhaulterd and gilflurted, I think he was to the best of my memory..It was in one of the outdoor magazines..

I hope I never have to be gilflurted.

I first read it as girlflurted and was ready to sign up for it. Don't know what gilflurted is--wasn't in my dictionary.

This is why I don't watch fake shows. Unfortunately human nature and glory and a quick buck totally undermine ethics fair play and sportsmanship. Having been around some of this I know how "fake" many shows are. Always successful, always a trophy, always a one shot kill. Editing and staging is the name of the game, and cheating. And people believe that crap. I think girlfluting may be to nice for these pricks. Just my opinion of course

The kill the animal, then do the show in most cases, I have seen that, they drive out shoot the Bison or elk..then do the stalk etc..not all Im sure but some do it..Nothing illegal about it, but it just didn,t set right with me.