Do you buy hunting equipment and supplies? Do you buy a Kansas hunting license and permits?
Since the 1930s and the Pittman-Robertson Act, the treasury dept has collected a 12% excise tax on hunting equipment and supplies that they turn over 100% to USFW who grant it back to the states. With this money and the money that the states, in this case Kansas, collect on the licenses and permits, the state manages hunting, in this case the deer, in the state.
When Kansas thinned the herd, they used those funds to do it.
So, if you bought some hunting equipment and supplies, and paid the 12% excise tax, or you bought a Kansas License, then you contributed to thinning the herd.
So who did these inbred east Texas boys cheat? The hunters that pay the excise tax and those Kansas hunters who buy the license and permits.
When they thin the herd, they don't kill the trophy deer. But the Butler boys were guiding their clients to kill trophies, and charging $5000, and not requiring their clients to buy a license, and letting them kill multiple trophies, and with out the required permits.