Years ago, a Virginia Conservation Official got in a lot of trouble shooting two wild pigs with a 1911 .45....

Trouble was, he shot them on a Federal Wildlife Refuge, they were driving through the refuge on the way to a National Gaurd picnic as I remember, he saw a sow hog and a piglet not far from the road. He stopped his car, shot both pigs with his .45, killing the piglet but not the sow. Sow was injured, immobile, and knucklehead had run out of ammo. He had to go to the Refuge Manager and tell him what happened, the refuge manager returned with a revolver and put the sow down.

Why so much trouble? The car following him to the picnic was full of reporters who witnessed the whole thing. All over the papers the next day, "Top Virginia Conservation Official Kills Wild Pigs Out of Season, On a Federal Wildlife Refuge, Shooting From the Road, etc. ", and the fact he shot them without enough gun and left them didn't help....