- The Venatic
- Posts
- Pennsylvania Poaching Ring Bust Results in $35K in Fines 🚨
Pennsylvania Poaching Ring Bust Results in $35K in Fines 🚨
+ Texas opens up 520K acres, a nursing home b&e, Texas legalizes shooting sheep from the air and a puma after his next meal
In the event that the weekend wasn’t quite long enough for you, here’s to hoping that your favorite dispatch from the outdoor world can give you 5-or-so minutes to prep yourself for yet another week.
So, without further adieu, let’s grab that coffee or whiskey (no judgement) and get caught up on the outdoor news and views from the past few days.
Here's what's worth reading about today:
Busted - Eight guilty pleas in PA’s latest poaching ring bust 🧑⚖️
More opportunity - Texas is offering up 520,000 acres of hunting opps this season 👍
Nursing home B&E - A yearling bear checked himself into a nursing home 👴🏻
Taking over the skies - Texas legalizes shooting aoudads from choppers 🚁
An insane take down - Watch this puma work tirelessly for his next meal 🐈
GREAT POLICE WORK HERE
PENNSYLVANIA POACHING RING BUST RESULTS IN $35K IN FINES, 70 YEARS WORTH OF SUSPENSIONS
In another big ol’ bust in the Keystone State, eight individuals from the Northern Cambria area pleaded guilty to multiple charges related to the illegal taking of multiple whitetails.
The investigation kicked off in March 2024 when state game warden Mason Frumkin conducted a routine fishing license check in Indiana County. A quick peek into the suspect’s vehicle revealed firearms and ammunition, piquing the officers attention. As the warden continued to press on the individual, he soon got more than he bargained for, including a complete confession to spotlighting and shooting deer at night…
QUICK HITS // FROM AROUND THE WEB
Texas Parks and Wildlife Adds Three Properties to Public Hunting Offerings: The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission authorized 2025-26 hunting season dates for public hunting lands and Texas State Parks that will offer 140 different public hunts in 52 State Park and State Natural Areas, totaling more than 521,000 acres of publicly accessible land. Read the full story.
Illinois Waterfowl Blind Drawings Set for Summer 2025: Waterfowl hunters must register in person for blind site drawings and must be present at the drawing held at each location designated below immediately after the registration period to claim their blind sites. Mail-in or pre-registrations are not accepted. Blind allocations for these sites are good for one year. Read the full story.
A black bear yearling broke into an Indiana County nursing home. A resident wanted to give him cake: No one was injured and the young yearling male bear, weighing 118 pounds, was trapped by the Pennsylvania Game Commission and released in the State Game Lands in Cambria County, said Lt. Andy Harvey, information and education supervisor and a state warden with the Game Commission’s Southwest Region Office. Read the full story.
Photos: St. Andrew’s Village
Idaho’s May Super Hunt drawing nets $1 million for access, next drawing is in August: Two Super Hunt drawings are held annually, and winners can hunt in any open unit in the state - general and controlled hunts - for the species in which they drew a tag. A Super Hunt Combo includes a deer, elk, moose and pronghorn tag. Read the full story.
Game On: Texas legalizes shooting invasive sheep from a helicopter for sport: Aoudad sheep are now officially joining the short list of animals Texas lawmakers allow to be shot from a helicopter for sport, along with coyotes and feral hogs. Read the full story.
VIDEO // SOME THINGS JUST HAVE TO BE SEEN
🐈 This footage of a puma on a hunt in Patagonia is absolutely insane. So what we have here is a puma on the hunt for a guanaco, which is a distant cousin of a camel that weighs between 200 and 300 lbs. As it turns out, pumas love them, but as you can see, they’re not always an easy meal.
These cats (and their prey) put in the damn work…
MONDAY MEME // MY ANNUAL PEP TALK
WANDERINGS // A SFW GLIMPSE OF OUR BROWSER HISTORY
While print is starting to make a comeback here in the US, it never really died in Japan where their outdoor magazine industry is thriving. Even though I’m assuming most of us (myself included) don’t speak Japanese, the photography is apparently worth thumbing through. Aside from the usual terrorist-types, here are four seemingly regular folks who have been added to the nation’s do-not-fly list and how you can avoid the same fate. Remember when Morgan Wallen abruptly left the set of Saturday Night Live in New York and everyone got all pissy because he wanted to get “back to God’s country” as soon as possible? Well, what if the entire population of New York decided to do that? You know, give up the city life and move out to the country, how long would it take NYC to completely fall apart? A pinch of salt literally makes almost everything taste better and, contrary to public opinion, is actually pretty good for you. So, in the event you are doing something kind-of-sort-of not good for you - like slugging cocktails - a pinch of salt might be your saving grace. OK, probably not, but it’ll help…right?
EYE CANDY // PICTURES > WORDS
Beautiful week on the horizon.
📸 : @appalachian_analog
Oh, and one more thing…
What did you think of today's newsletter? |