in 2004, gentry purchased a black bear named "cubby" from a facility called the minnesota wildlife connection and subsequently shot the bear from inside an electrified enclosure, a practice commonly known as canned hunting. on november 27, 2006, gentry pleaded guilty to a charge of falsely tagging a bear that was killed in a fenced enclosure as if it had been killed in the wild. under the plea agreement, he agreed to pay a $15,000 fine, give up hunting, fishing and trapping in minnesota for five years and forfeit cubby's taxidermied remains and the bow he used to shoot cubby. in a statement that he posted on the duo's website on november 9, 2010, he apologized for his actions as well as the unethical manner in which he killed cubby.