Texas Poachers Busted

[IronNoggin]

Texas Poachers Busted in Historic Kansas Sting After Slaughter of 119 Monster Bucks​

An outlaw ring poached giant bucks and allegedly stole trophy semen in one of the most astounding illegal hunting cases in U.S. history.

Hack off a head of magnificent antlers. Slice away a scrotum of trophy semen. Roll the carcass onto its snowy belly to conceal the crime. High-five. Make bank. Fly away in a jet. Do it again.

One of the most astounding illegal hunting cases in U.S. history unfolded in the pastureland and crop rows of southwest Kansas with the poaching of at least 119 giant bucks, representing a minimum of 16,600” of horn, a mind-boggling quarter-mile stretch.

Who was killing the monsters of Kansas? Who triggered one of the wildest conservation busts on record?

“The sickest bunch of outlaws I’ve ever come across,” says retired game warden Tracy Galvin. “They came up here out of Texas and Louisiana, and raped our deer country.”

https://www.agweb.com/news/business/farmland/texas-poachers-busted-historic-kansas-sting-after-slaughter-119-monster-bu

 

[RockAndSage]

Man, that is one hell of a story. So infuriating, but glad they were nailed.

 

[Dave Thomas]

Hang em by their balls. No reason for something like that.

 

[casey36]

As a retired Deputy Game Warden, I love to see these dirt bags get arrested. They certainly got off easy though. I hate thieves and that is exactly what these guys are, greedy theives.

 

[SCHUNTER73]

Hard to wrap my head around that level of wildlife violations.

 

[yfarm]

This article was published in September 2025, the crimes and convictions occurred between 2003 and 2011, slow time for articles on AgWeb?

 

[thinhorn_AK]

Trophy semen???

 

[BBob]

This article was published in September 2025, the crimes and convictions occurred between 2003 and 2011, slow time for articles on AgWeb?

And the main guy is deceased

 

[Reburn]

The warden wanted the collar so bad he ignored the drug trafficking? And then went on record for an interview and said it?

Galvin describes. “We knew there were drugs involved and we searched their Blazer parked at the airport. A K-9 drug dog hit all over the vehicle, but we steered clear of that pursuit because if the DEA got involved, the drug charges would wash out the wildlife charges.”

 

[realunlucky]

The warden wanted the collar so bad he ignored the drug trafficking? And then went on record for an interview and said it?

Galvin describes. “We knew there were drugs involved and we searched their Blazer parked at the airport. A K-9 drug dog hit all over the vehicle, but we steered clear of that pursuit because if the DEA got involved, the drug charges would wash out the wildlife charges.”

This very case did change the way states classify wildlife violations and the punishments that can be associated with those crimes. So in the end the avoidance of having the DEA take over was a huge win for fish and game enforcement across the country.

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[Pacific_Fork]

Trophy semen???

I’m going to use this term with the wife haha

Kidding aside, although an old case this is wild. What's amazing is how many people paid knowingly to fly in a jet and go poach bucks. Glad that one dude died in a helicopter crash, karma is a biatch.