April 13, 2016
From NorthCarolinaSportsman.com
Nick Davis fined, loses hunting privileges for 2 years
Nick Davis, the hunter who attached a huge set of shed antlers to the skull of a small buck and claimed he had killed a state-record deer last fall, pleaded guilty on March 31 of one count of illegal hunting, was fined almost
$800 and had his hunting license revoked for two years.
Davis was ordered in court in the Surry County town of Dobson to pay court costs of $180 and a $604 replacement fee for killing a small buck with a rifle on the second day of archery season. His hunting license was also revoked for two years.
Davis also pleaded guilty to a count of taking a deer during a closed season.
Officers charged him with one count of hunting during a closed season because he took the small buck with a rifle during archery season, and they charged him with illegal possession of a whitetail and failure to properly tag an animal. The latter two charges were dropped.