“Conservation officers soon arrived”. Knock, knock, we’re from the government and here to help. Ok, 3 shots in the middle of the night and a neighbor is going to call the cops but it wasn’t the cops so the homeowners reported themselves to the authorities. They could very well both be in jail today for that. Whatever happened to Shoot, Freezer and Shut up? Bet all that bear meat was wasted by the “Conservation” officers.
Why did they have to kill Carl? Couldn’t the “conservation” cops just have cuffed him and released him back in to the wild after a stern lecture? Whatever shall we do. :>}
Some of them have tracking devices. It would be hard to convince someone of a life or death scenario after they track a gps device to your freezer.