The guy to shoot the deer, his name is Ron Zimmer. Ron has a true passion for hunting and I have been lucky enough to share the woods with him and call him a friend for over 20 years. Ron is a High School teacher and wrestling coach for his chosen profession. He spends as much time hunting as he possibly can and he has been blessed with being successful on Thanksgiving. That is also a time that school is not in session and Mr. Zimmer can take to the woods more.
In 2005 on Thanksgiving morning it was 16 degrees and very frosty and Ron had the time to go hunting before his families big meal for Thanksgiving day. I happened to be along with Ron as it is a tradition for us to hunt that morning if only for a few hours. We talked about where each of would hunt as we drove to the woods. Ron was going to hunt on Bill’s ridge and I was going to hunt the valley behind the lake. It was 8:30 am when I heard the shot and I drove my Kawasaki Mule to Ron’s stand to start getting the buck out due to us having to hurry for lunch. I knew he had shot a good one when I heard his 12 gauge shoot that morning. We have hunted together since we were young boys and had served in the U.S. Marines together. When I rode up to him I could see his grin and he pointed towards his buck. A beautiful 8 pointer that field dressed 210 lbs and his antlers scored 145 B/C with long tines and thick bases. Here is the 8 pt buck for 2005 and also the 9 pt buck that scores 158 B/C that Ron got this year in 2006 on Thanksgiving break.
The hunter with so much to be thankful for on Thanksgiving though is me. All disabled hunters know what I am about to talk about. I am a paraplegic that loves to hunt and be outdoors’ all that I can. It has been 13 years since I got confined to a wheelchair, but in all of that time Ron Zimmer and my brother John have never once forgotten to hunt with me. They come to my house at 4:30 am and help me to load my 4 wheeler and gear. He along with John always help me to get my coveralls on and make sure I am not barefooted when I let them off at their stand. (That has happened before) Yes I am very independent, but without my brother John and Ron my time in the woods would be limited and not near as fulfilling. There are not words to describe what their help means to me. The trophy bucks are not the true reward. It is the friends like these that would not allow me to stay home even if I wanted to not go.

This article was in the ToledoBlade on Dec 8, 2006.  This guy even had a 9 year old youth with him when he shot the deer.  This is just the kind of negative thing that paints all hunter’s in a bad light.   As you read the article note that he is a repeat offender and the authorities know him well.  I think the punishment for a repeat offender should be much stiffer; as the negative impact this one guy had on our sport can not be regained with the punishment he received.  He single handily had an emotional impact on a young hunter, killed a true trophy whitetail buck that some honest hunter deserved to harvest and hunting got a black eye with some guy shooting a deer illegally while trespassing on private property.   
Deer poacher who bagged record-size buck gets 90 days, plus fine

By STEVE POLLICK
BLADE STAFF WRITER

 
Steve Niese, 24, of Leipsic, has been convicted of three charges related to poaching a record-size buck in Hancock County during the statewide youth gun deer-hunting season, which was conducted before the state’s gun deer season, which ended Sunday. 
Mr. Niese was charged with shooting a deer with a rifle - not a legal deer-hunting weapon in Ohio - plus shooting a deer with a gun during a closed season and of hunting without permission on private land. He was sentenced in Findlay Municipal Court to 90 days in jail with 60 days suspended and fined $550. His hunting privileges were suspended for three years. He was also ordered to forfeit a .30/06 rifle and the deer. 
Kirk Kiefer, state wildlife officer in Hancock County, said the charge of shooting a deer with a rifle was a repeat offense. 
“I gave him his eighth, ninth, and 10th tickets,” Mr. Kiefer said. He has been cited seven times previously for wildlife violations. 
The wildlife officer said the case evolved from a tip from the Putnam County sheriff’s office, and that Mr. Niese, who apparently had a 9-year-old with him, saw the buck, and returned to his truck for a rifle to shoot it for himself. 
The deer, Mr. Kiefer said, has a potential record-book score, initially measuring 173 inches total, green, or undried. Antler size shrinks somewhat after drying and final scoring is not done until then. 
“Maybe the guy thought it was a good time to poach a deer because Ohio State and Michigan were playing,” Mr. Kiefer said. “Unfortunately I’m from Indiana and could care less.”

Pogo Moose Incident - Fairbanks, Alaska “They were laying new power cables which were strung on the ground for miles. The moose are rutting right now and very agitated. He was thrashing around and got his antlers stuck in the cables. When the men (miles away) began pulling the lines up with their big equipment, the moose went up with them. They noticed excess tension in the lines and went searching for the problem. He was still alive when they lowered him. to the ground. He was a huge 60 inch bull and slightly peeved !”

This Michigan Buck is a trophy no matter what state your hunting in. To see a free roaming buck like this in Michigan is a rare sight indeed where the average age of the buck harvested is 1 1/2 years old. That is why these new Urban and City Bow only area’s give you a shot at a true trophy. Here are deer that have adapted and grown to old age living in a protected environment with good food. All most buck’s need is age to make that trophy class of 140 or more by 3 1/2. Just like the St Louis Monster that is the largest set of antler’s ever measured, he was found dead with in city limits. Check your game laws and examine the thickets and fields around your city just a little closer.

 This giant was shot by John Klucky in Merrimack Co. New Hampshire on 11/25/06. The awesome 15-pointer green-scores 200 as a typical. It should be the new state record typical gun buck once it is officially scored (after the 60-day skull drying period).