Man charged with illegally killing two deer with pellet rifle

The man has an inherent right to protect his property. Whether or not the man intended to kill the deer is moot.

Well,that certainly is a report that responsible airgunners Didnt need in the spotlight! (I'm Not referring to this forum,btw.)The anti-gun groups will surely take this and run with it. Like I've said before,it just takes One accident,one idiots lack of discretion/blatant stupidity to cause BIG issues for the Rest of us. Any gun-related crime/accident is magnetic fodder for the media. !%@#

This was big news for a day in the SF Bay papers. The guy was a privileged jerk and everything wrong with such. He wasn't protecting much, and there are other and better ways to do it. What he did do was give air gunners a big black eye. In general, we fly under the radar. Stuff like this makes it that much harder. 

I haven't seen a follow up article. I'm hoping that at the very least he gets charges and a fine. For being stupid and harming my sport.

He has been charged.

http://www.marinij.com/article/NO/20180514/NEWS/180519889

Read the article. Gets more interesting. 

Police researched gun registration records and learned that Dickinson had purchased a JD Machine Tech TR1 lower receiver in 2014. Police determined that the product, the foundation for a rifle, was “an AR15-type military standard, or ‘mil spec’, lower receiver,” Tiburon police Detective Russell Stiverson wrote in the affidavit.“This type of lower receiver can be matched with various calibers of upper receivers to make a complete rifle, potentially capable of firing the type of bullet recovered from the doe,” Stiverson said.


This conflicts with the pellet rifle story.

Not a wise decision.. I understand his frustration.. trust me..
I have deer doing crop damage.. I have put up El fence to kkep them out.. I also kill them leaglly when I can.. 
BUT, a pellet rifle? Dumb, dumb, dumb..
of course the anit's will turn this into what ever they can..

Hay guys,if ya want to keep deer out of the garden go buy a pound dried cayenne pepper and sprinkle around the out side of your garden.

They say human hair works good too

I just saw a "scare dancer" on youtube.. to scare deer away. electric and solar powered. Would have kept the deer out. But probably HOA would not allwed it. 

and yes human hair does work. Ladies beauty shop saves it for me and I put it around my field. 

SO he killed them with an AR and surrendered the pellet rifle and claimed that it was what he used!?

Interesting that they charged him for using lead ammo on game. CA fish and wildlife website makes it clear that they do not consider a Airgun a firearm. Thus the lead law does not pertain to them. The lead law is only for firearms. This could be bad for us in CA.

We are so lucky as airgunners to be as unregulated as we are. Judging by most of the comments in the forums we are a responsible group, but all it takes is a couple of idiots to bring unwanted attention to us. Obey the laws as they stand and know what the hell your shooting at. 

The article says under the picture of the pellet gun, "Tiburon police seized a pellet gun from Mark Dickinson after he shot two deer, but they could not find a rifle they suspected he used". Rifle? Pellet Gun? I wonder what really happened?

Did he really kill a full grown doe with a .177 or .22 pellet gun? It is possible, but more likely wounded instead (stupid, yes). So, if they can't find the gun they thought he used, and can't match the bullet to the pellet gun, ??????

The press is so inadequate in these issues, and in California, so anti anything that allows one to be independent, one wonders about the whole case. Maybe we'll get more info from the court case later.

Lesson, 1, don't be stupid and chase deer with pellet guns and 2. don't be stupid in California. Someone will turn you in and the press will hang you out to dry before the case ever comes up. You can't win in those circumstances. 
Be careful and keep your nose clean, that's the only way, and not just in California! It can happen ANYWHERE.

Okay, I researched the story. A man bought a home for 1.85 million, for the intention of fixing up the house and landscaping for sale. He put $40,000.00 into the landscaping. The deer were a chronic problem with damaging the expensive landscaping work he performed. Under the nuisance animal laws, he shot them. Under the nuisance laws, if a wild animal is damaging your personally owned property, you can kill it without regard of time of day, season, license/permit, etc. The uber-tree-hugging California liberals lost their mind that Bambi was killed, and demanded the law hit him as hard as possible. This is the aftermath. The police never found the gun which was used to kill the deer. After flipping and upgrading the house and landscape, he sold it for a cool 3.25 million.

Yeah, I really feel sorry for the jerk. Gimme a break 

"Jerk" ? Why is he a jerk? This man took a risk and made money "flipping" a house. We ALL have the same opportunity to do same in this great country. Maybe not on the $$$ level as this guy, but opportunities exist.. 
as far as the deer.. if in fact he was within the law for nuisance animals, then he made the right choice. BUT, if he did discharge a firearm in city limits.. that's a no no.. 

Entitled jerk. I stand by my comment!