I agree that it is alarming how many TV hosts are getting busted for violating game laws. I promise that if I break a game law it is going to be one that I was totally ignorant of and I pray that does not happen. As we travel across the country, game laws change from state to state and some of these violations appear to be honest mistakes...others, like this one, not so much.
Adios,
Gary

I agree totally -

When you depend on your outfitter or guide to know the laws you put yourself at the mercy of their knowledge. It's gotten more than a few celebrity hunters in hot water.

And no, that isn't what happened here.

Karma sucks.........

An Important Message from:
David E. Dudick, Chief Executive Officer

Over the course of the past 48 hours, Plano Synergy became aware of a situation which required swift and decisive action.
Today, Bill Busbice and Plano Synergy mutually agreed to end their association. Bill Busbice and his partners sold their outdoor brands to Plano Synergy in 2013. Since then, Bill has been providing services under contract to Plano Synergy, principally as a host of the Wildgame Nation television program, until today when that relationship was severed. Plano Synergy will also be cancelling the Wildgame Nation TV show.
Plano Synergy has a culture that is grounded in integrity and great respect for the outdoors. This comes with the expectation that we will always do the right thing. Our decisions will always reflect our commitments to our customers and consumers. We have a deep respect for the law, tradition and the ethical practices of our sports. We take pride in serving our industry and promote the fair and lawful practices of game hunting. Every day we strive to be a company that is trustworthy, respectful and fair with our consumers, employees, customers and business partners.
We thank you for your trust.
Sincerely,

Well I'll be dang - a large corporation actually did the right thing. About time - I sent an email to Planos CEO and thanked him for taking a stand

well guess we didn't have to dump him - his company did - says a lot doesn't it?

TLK I have no idea what your point is.... FYI his son is still President of Plano synergies for a reason... also below is what I said early. Maybe I'm just lucky or maybe just really good at foreshadowing

My POINT IS - if you have watched the show you know his boys are right in the middle of this too -

Heck I might have boycotted them, but I don't buy any of their products.

All of you calling him just a "shareholder" - give me a break - he has been and is the face of the TV show and all the products. If he was just a "shareholder" then Planos CEO would not have sent a public announcement stating they removed him from everything associated with their product - pretty weak argument -

Not a point that's an assumption which is basically slander.

Like I said he son is still President.

Give me a break.... Does he run the company? Does he manage anything... sorry he is a contract 1099 employee with lots of stock shares... is that better? He doesn't run crap,

You boycotting dos equis if the most interesting man in the world gets a DUI?

Blood sport and tenzing for most part are best companies under the umbrella although Plano does have a higher end line of gun cases.

Out

That's a trifling BS response

I haven't defended him...just defended the jobs of the people that work at companies he holds stock in

, but you have stated you want all those companies and employees jobless because of the idiotic actions of a guy that doesn't make management decisions for the company nor holds management title etc. or work in any other form other then a titled tv show. Then you go on to slander his kids when you realize that he is just a shareholder at this point and doesn't actually do anything with in the company Now that's classy

Nice edit by the way. I think it's kind of funny. Show was cancelled... by network, CEO say Bill is no longer associated with the company...ya because his only function was the TV show....like I said just a shareholder

I already said earlier way up at the top(and quoted it again for you ) I wouldn't boycott those companies unless management allowed Bill to be public facing in conjunction with their brand. You are assuming he was paid to be on the show, if he was it would of been 1099(he is worth a 100mill)... its outdoor channel it's not exactly A&E. End of the day his clout within that company is nothing more then as a voting shareholder.

The Outdoor Network canceled the show...Plano Synergies just reaffirmed it for public acknowledgment as they should of.

His two sons started that company by making deer blocks in the kitchen... bill is a tag alone and never has been presentable for the general public has in my opinion

we all know its all about money and greed for more

pure and simple

You gotta step down on one side of the fence or the other. Either you support what bill did or you don't. Bills employees were making money for him and bill let them down. Men with character who stand by their convictions have nothing to do with bill busbice's employees.

Tools never liked any of them

You way overthink stuff sometimes. Or maybe just trying to support/rationalize your initial post of support. He is front and center of the TV show and company. Period. He is a poacher. Period. Choosing not to support poachers is a rational, indeed normal, response for ethical hunters to make.

Your position is like the guy down in the OT blaming the Wal Mart clerk for elder fraud. Analogy alert: Do you buy chitty products because you feel sorry for the poor folks who work for the chitty companies that make them? Geez.....

As was said, the employees work for the company that chose to feature the idiot blowhard lawbreaker. They should be looking to him as the source of their troubles, not the customers who choose not to support the company that features him as its face.

The company broke ties will Bill, there for I choose to continue to support a company that has great hardworking people working there. A company breaking ties with a poacher is what should and did happen, but apparently that's not enough, now you are wanting everyone working under the Plano Synergies umbrella finically hurt... for the actions of a infomercial tri-co-host that has been excommunicated from the company and entire industry.

Who wishes that kind of harm on people? Make sure you say grace before dinner tonight!!!

I'm sorry that you feel Plano products are inferior to what you buy. I'm also sorry you feel the people who work under the Plano umbrella are inferior to you also. What kind of sicko condemns 600 plus people for actions of a contract TV personality. I guess the fact he was fined $23k and lost his hunting rights in 45 states, removed from TV and removed from any affiliation with Plano Synergies umbrella isn't enough you, so now you want to see financial hardships on anyone working for a company he is no longer associated with.


You can keep your ethics and what you consider morally right. Apparently boycotting isn't about removal or corrective action it's about destroying..

Anyone who has an opinion one way or the other on this own any significant portion of the company or stock?

Like I said, way overthinking it. Every buying choice one makes excludes every other company who makes a similar product. Oh, the horror of those poor employees that work for the companies whose product I did not buy.

FWIW, I have a brain. Busbice is not the face of every one of the companies listed (by someone else) above. He is the face of the TV show and the Wildgame products. It's not a hardship on me anyway, as I have always disliked the drunken clown and never knowingly bought his stuff.

Your disdain for ethics and rationalizing support for every clown that has a TV show and/or kills stuff under the guise of hunting is what's wrong with much of the state of hunting these days. The poachers and clowns are not my brothers and they do not represent most hunters. Certainly not those who know what hunting is really all about.

Actually If you watched the show Plano Synergies highlights all its brands, Cross bows, arrows, broadheads, cases, evolved supplements, flextime game calls, cameras, optics... and it's plastered all over

My disdain for ethics!!! LMAO says the guy that degrades people hunts and gets banned for it. How is supporting a company for excommunicating him, supporting a poacher. I thought you just bragged about a brain.

I didn't defend his actions in anyway I simply said let's see what the Plano Synergies does going forward. He remains then boycott. If he is removed and gone, then they did right thing. They got rid of him. I guess your brain didn't process that? No I don't want other innocent people to suffer finically for an association that is no longer there, but your superior morality and religious upbringing does... that's a special kind of religion right there.

Typical of most shake down artists, their moral compass and religious preception only pretains to what appeases or might influence public perception. God bless thier hearts.

Obviously your moral compass has a floating needle compared to mine. Mine was appeased with his removal, yours still wants financial hardships for those employees. You truly are special.