Quiet Night Hunter
By Sr. Agent Jason Dreher

After receiving an anonymous complaint, I set up on a deer stand in a field and observed a subject actively night hunting from the stand. After waiting a while for him to shoot, I decided to reveal myself. As I approached the deer stand, I could hear the subject moan, “Damn”. I identified myself and told him to climb down. As he was doing so, he said, “I didn’t think y’all could catch me.” I soon realized what he meant. He did not have a gun, but at the foot of the stand I found a bow. He had lowered it as I was walking up. He said he had been hunting at night all season, and wasn’t worried about ever being caught, because no one would hear him shoot. He showed me the modifications he had made to his bow, which had an attached blue flashlight and a laser sight. He told me he did have a bad feeling about hunting that night, so bad that he had decided not to bring his poison pods. I guess two charges instead of three are really not all that bad. After seizing his bow and issuing him citations he congratulated me, saying again, “I didn’t think it would ever happen.” It just goes to show, you don’t have to hear a shot for it to be night hunting.