Bloody stump

The concept: Ten contestants swarm a ranch outside Waco, Texas, to do time with rocker-hunter Ted Nugent, a.k.a. leader of Tribe Nuge and coauthor of “Kill It & Grill It.” (Words to hunt by: “There’s no bag limit on happiness.”) From his hair band and hunting compound in Michigan, the 55-year-old NRA lifer and avowed conservationist publishes his own outdoors magazine, pushes hunting programs for women and kids, has designed a signature line of hunting arrows and was a Handgun Hunters Hall of Fame nominee.

The show: With $100,000 at stake, contestants pick through a pit of snakes to see who can bag the most and perform taxidermy and other feats on “Surviving Nugent: The Ted Commandments,” a series scheduled to air in May on VH1.

The incident: On Jan. 11 Nugent took a chain saw to a tree, which suddenly fell in an “unexpected direction,” according to VH1’s website. He let go of the chain saw while pushing the falling tree away from a contestant.

The upshot: An ugly leg wound that needed 40 stitches. The Nuge returned to the set Jan. 12 wearing a leg brace.