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General Category => National Outdoor News Headlines => Topic started by: mudbrook on November 13, 2009, 10:33:04 AM

Title: Minnesota hunter goes from deer hero to alleged poaching zero
Post by: mudbrook on November 13, 2009, 10:33:04 AM
On Halloween evening, Troy Alan Reinke reportedly took his bow into the woods near White Rock, Minn., where local hunters knew a monstrous buck lived.

Reinke, 32, already had shot two deer in October and illegally failed to tag or register them, state Department of Natural Resources investigators say. The Cannon Falls man allegedly already had butchered them and planned to kill another, according to Goodhue County court records.

Just before dark, he allegedly shot the local legend: a rare white-tailed buck with the largest eight-point rack in the world.

With help of his cousin and his cousin's girlfriend, Reinke dragged the deer out of the woods, put his tag on it and registered the deer in Cannon Falls, according to records.
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