{"id":110270,"date":"2026-01-04T09:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T09:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/110270\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T09:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T09:28:15","slug":"texas-game-wardens-cite-duck-hunters-for-baiting-violation-near-axtell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/110270\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Game Wardens cite duck hunters for baiting violation near Axtell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">AXTELL, Texas (KWTX) \u2014 Texas Game Wardens cited three duck hunters who killed 17 green-winged teal over bait in McLennan County, authorities confirmed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Texas Game Wardens cite duck hunters for baiting violation near Axtell\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6LA2VLEFRJGVHIAWAXT52PI44U.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"1225\" \/>Texas Game Wardens cite duck hunters for baiting violation near Axtell(Texas Game Wardens)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to officials, the hunters were cited for the baiting violation near Axtell. One hunter received an additional warning for illegal dumping after wardens found duck carcasses from a previous hunt dumped on a neighbor\u2019s property.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Texas Game Wardens cite duck hunters for baiting violation near Axtell\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GJMQ4LTBZ5CELGFKL3O3VSKAE4.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"1225\" \/>Texas Game Wardens cite duck hunters for baiting violation near Axtell(Texas Game Wardens)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Game wardens seized the 17 ducks and donated them for food purposes. Civil restitution is pending in the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KWTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AXTELL, Texas (KWTX) \u2014 Texas Game Wardens cited three duck hunters who killed 17 green-winged teal over bait&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49148,27,23704,29,28],"class_list":["post-110270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-duck-hunters","tag-texas","tag-texas-game-wardens","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}