Syracuse.com - Minnesota man charged after poaching a 21-point buck and posting it on Facebook

HuntingNY-News · January 5, 2012

The deer was taken with a bow and arrow from a Southern Minnesota deer farm.

A 20-year-old man from Rushford, Minn., has been charged with felony theft for allegedly shooting a 21-point domesticated deer in a rural Houston County pen with a bow and arrow, then claiming he killed it in the wild, according to the Star Tribune newspaper.

Ryan Lucas Jackson also faces three other counts of trespassing, criminal damage to property for allegedly cutting a fence to remove the trophy buck, and unauthorized release of animals. Ten other deer escaped the pen in the Dec. 8 incident; two, including an eight-point buck valued at about $10,000, are still missing, the newspaper reported.

See a picture of the deer and read the full story.

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