Club fined $400 for using turkeys as targets

[bronco1]

From ESPN Outdoors:

Club fined $400 for using turkeys as targets

Associated Press — March 13, 2007

MANHEIM, Pa. — A sportsmen's club was fined $400 on Friday for using dozens of live turkeys as targets in an archery contest.

Authorities said about 40 domestic turkeys were killed in the Elstonville Sportsmen's Association's Sept. 9 contest.

Participants paid $12 for three attempts to shoot at the birds, which were secured to straw bales at their feet, but able to flap their wings. Archers who drew blood won the birds, authorities said.

``The club's conduct was egregious that day, and they've now been held accountable,'' said prosecutor Christine Wilson.

Since the event, the club has adopted a rule forbidding the use of ``any living entity'' as a target, the club said in a statement.

The club pleaded no contest to eight summary violations involving the cruel treatment of animals and offering live animals as prizes in a contest. It was also ordered to pay court costs.

``Although we did not set out to cruelly mistreat the animals involved nor did we intentionally violate the laws of the Commonwealth, we have chosen to plead 'no contest' … in order to put this matter behind us and focus on restoring our reputation as responsible citizens and sportsmen,'' the club said.

[tvc184]

Great! Another set of morons give gun control nuts and PETA types a reason to hate hunters and so called sportsmen.

What a great sporting idea. Tie a bunch of tame birds down by their legs and shoot them for money.

[tvc184]

Notice that the incident was not in Mississippi or Alabama but in Pennsylvania. So much for criticism of us southern rednecks.

[bronco1]

Notice that the incident was not in Mississippi or Alabama but in Pennsylvania. So much for criticism of us southern rednecks.

Amen!