Georgia man gets lifetime hunting ban in Kansas for illegal deer kills featured on his YouTube show

More than 62,000 users subscribe to Matt Jennings’ hunting show on YouTube, where he featured illegal deer kills in Kansas. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)

TOPEKA — A Georgia man who admitted to illegally killing deer in Kansas and featuring the kills on his YouTube hunting show will pay $25,000 in fines and restitution, and is forever banned from hunting in Kansas.

Matt Jennings, 35, reached a plea agreement this week on two charges of violating the federal Lacey Act, which prohibits interstate commerce for wildlife taken in violation of state regulations. He is the host of “The Game,” which streams on YouTube and CarbonTV.

​“HUNTING is all I’ve ever known, to kill to eat… it’s what makes my heart pound and my soul fulfilled,” Jennings says on the show’s website.