Outdoor Channel Star Fined $23K In Wyoming Poaching Incident

A Kemmerer Game Warden said he met with Busbice, who admitted to having accidentally killed a calf elk while trying to harvest a large bull.

Posted Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 12:54 pm MT|Updated Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 12:56 pm MT

KEMMERER, WY — The star of an Outdoor Channel hunting show has been fined $23,000 and given a suspended jail sentence for poaching in Wyoming.

The incident occurred in October 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. (For more local news, click here to sign up for real-time news alerts. If you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app.)

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 accidentally 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.

Photo credit: Kevork Djansezian, Associated Press