I like Ted Nugent. I read that Ted pleads no contest to deer baiting in California:

MARYSVILLE, Calif. – Rocker and celebrity hunter Ted Nugent will have to pay a $1,750 fine after pleading no contest in California to baiting a deer and not having a properly signed hunting tag.

California Department of Fish and Game spokesman Patrick Foy says game wardens saw Nugent kill an immature buck on a February episode of his Outdoor Channel TV show “Spirit of the Wild.”

Investigators found that the deer had been eating bait called “C’mere Deer.” Baiting wildlife is illegal in California.

Nugent originally faced 11 charges, including killing a deer too young to be hunted. In a deal with Yuba County prosecutors, Nugent’s attorney on Friday entered no contest pleas to the two misdemeanors.

WTF Ted? I have no problem with baiting, but if you’re not supposed to bait there (either by law or say by the request of the landowner) then you need to follow that law/rule. Then you don’t have the right tag. Then you target a deer that you shouldn’t have (and I’d reason with all your field experience you ought to know how to age a deer). And to top it all off, you got caught because you filmed it and decided to play it on your TV show.

Good f’ing grief!

Come on, Ted. What were you thinking? Or rather, why weren’t you thinking?

Updated: A posting to Ted’s official Facebook page:

To my Fellow Outdoorsmen…. You may have read the news that I pled no contest to two misdemeanor game violations in CA. I should have been better informed, more aware and I take full responsibility. Our honorable hunting lifestyle is my deepest passion. Ted Nugent