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Posted on 05/22/2026 4:20:52 AM PDT by DFG
A Texas hunter turned the state’s picturesque Hill Country into a real-life horror show, allegedly slaughtering at least 13 white-tailed bucks, slicing off their heads and leaving the headless carcasses to rot on residents’ front lawns.
Darrell Maguire, 55, of New Braunfels, is accused of shooting deer with a crossbow from his vehicle, chopping off their prized heads and leaving the decapitated bodies behind for horrified locals to find over 11 months between fall 2024 and summer 2025, the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department said Thursday.
He was arrested by game wardens in September 2025 after at least eight white-tailed buck carcasses were discovered in residential neighborhoods in Cornal and Hays counties that June, sparking an investigation.
During the probe, authorities recovered spent crossbow bolts from front yards and porches, the TPWD said.
The investigators also uncovered evidence inside Maguire’s home linking him to additional poaching incidents and found that he surpassed the annual bag limit — the maximum amount of kills in one season — during the 2024 season, taking five bucks over the limit in Bexar County.
They also discovered 5.86 grams of methamphetamine during their search of his home, according to the agency.
Maguire is facing 74 criminal charges, including felony hunting without landowner consent, hunting white-tailed deer at night, hunting from a vehicle on a public roadway and failing to retrieve and keep the deer in an edible condition as well as felony methamphetamine possession and marijuana possession.
The case remains pending in court.
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What a dish*t!
He violated about every hunting rule on the books.
That’s poaching!
Right!?
Exactly how is a “spent crossbow bolt” different from a crossbow bolt?
The nock has been depleted.
Too bad the local Chinese restaurant didn’t know about this.
Looks like a skinhead.
A Texas-style Sicilian message.
Get a rope!
This is not a hunter. This is a poacher. And his conduct is not “reckless” meaning with conscious disregard of a known risk, but completely intentional.
Sick individual. I am glad they arrested him.
Well, the idiot didn't recover them for re-use, so I guess you could call them spent. At least they used bolt in the article and not arrow... or bullet.
That isn’t hunting. That is simply deer killing.
The guy needs a good talking-to.
That isn’t hunting it’s the thrill to kill.
Reckless ???
Considering his amount of kills, I’d venture to guess that there is nothing ‘reckless’ about this hunter... In fact I’d say he’s doing a rather good job of it.
Is he ethical ??? Nope!
Can he hunt ??? The proof is in the pudding... 13 dead dear... So yes... He can hunt.
No. It very sick and dangerous thing.
When I was young, and in the deep south, that would get you a criminal forfeiture of your vehicle.
Lots of crossbow bolts are damaged when they hit, and are not reusable.
There is a lot of energy in a high velocity crossbow bolt. It has to go somewhere...
Just to add to your answer.
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