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Man Bolts Antlers to Dead Doe, Gets $400 Fine, 10 Days in Jail
Saturday, March 14, 2009


Print ShareThisBURLINGTON, Vt. � A man who bolted antlers to the head of a dead doe and posed for a photograph with the deer was fined $400 and jailed for game violations.

Marcel Fournier, 19, shot the deer the evening of Nov. 22 and used lag bolts and epoxy to attach a 10-point rack, officials said. He then checked in the kill as lawful game at Barnie's Market.

It's illegal to kill an antlerless deer, and it's also illegal to hunt at night.

The Concord resident admitted to the killing and led a game warden to the deer's remains after an anonymous caller alerted authorities. Fournier said he had "quite a time" drilling and fastening the antlers, authorities said.

Game warden David Gregory said the antlers didn't look or feel right.

"When you grabbed them, you'd feel movement," he said.

Col. David LeCours, chief warden of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, said the size of the antlers relative to the size of the deer seemed off.

"Something wasn't natural about them, in addition to the fact that they weren't natural," he said.

Fournier was sentenced to 10 days in jail Feb. 18 for taking a deer in a closed season. He won't qualify for a state hunting, fishing or trapping license for at least three years.

LeCours said add-on antlers are the stuff of legend, but that it's the first documented case of it in Vermont.

What a maroon

and a moron to boot!

Reminds me of a guy that took a deer to the meat locker out of season.

Uh, and the fact that there wasnt a set of balls to be found.

Pichers.......maroons........whats the difference?

This clown may not have been the brightest bulb in the pack, but he sure is creative.

I thought he had to have been doing this as a joke when I started reading the article. Appears he really was trying to slide one by somebody. Nothing like a couple hundred dollar fine to show him some humor.

I don't know about everyone else, but when i bag a buck the balls are left in the field.

In the movie "Scrooged" they should have used lag bolts I guess

I dont know if its the same law aymore but when I lived in NY you had to leave em attached to the carcass for proof of sex otherwise you would be ticketed.

But on the same note..............here in Indiana.........the boys are left in the woods.

Possibly taught to hunt by Mich Rompola???

In the time it took to add the antlers he could of had the deer cutup and in the freezer. No one would of know. What a dumbass.

Yep, a set of cods would be proof enuff.

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In Montana antlers are proof of sex.

He shoulda' used duct tape.

In ID, you can remove the antlers if you leave the scrotum or penis attached to the largest piece of meat. The antlers have to be packed out, though, to prove that they're of legal size.

Antlered does or cows are very rare, but they do occur. In that case, leave the antlers attached.

Ringworm-- I'm not sure about VT. but in NY the law says the deer must have an antler 3" in length and you must show proof of Sex. I have seen a spike horn doe that was shot and was legal. Every once in a blue moon a doe is shot with a small rack. The antlers are found still in velvet. This guy was just plain stupid. Web