collapse

Advertisement


Author Topic: Missing Elk Hunter GPNF Update on 2nd page  (Read 17656 times)

Offline Stein

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+11)
  • Explorer
  • ******
  • Join Date: Sep 2013
  • Posts: 12521
  • Location: Arlington
Re: Missing Elk Hunter GPNF
« Reply #45 on: November 24, 2017, 04:34:30 PM »
Keys in my pocket, spare key on a survival lanyard around my neck and a spare hidden on or near the truck.  I loose my keys on a regular basis and don't like walking to town.

Offline Crunchy

  • Political & Covid-19 Topics
  • Trade Count: (+2)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Apr 2007
  • Posts: 4821
  • Location: Puyallup
Re: Missing Elk Hunter GPNF
« Reply #46 on: November 24, 2017, 04:38:37 PM »
I take two sets usually. One for me and other to hunting partner.  Although for elk we hunt in teams, so i leave a key at camp.

Offline Jason

  • Political & Covid-19 Topics
  • Trade Count: (+2)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jun 2008
  • Posts: 3526
  • Location: Camas
Re: Missing Elk Hunter GPNF
« Reply #47 on: November 25, 2017, 09:56:46 AM »
*UPDATE*

Presler Has been found, not alive. The family doesn't have to wait tell spring for some closure. RIP!!

http://koin.com/2017/11/25/missing-vancouver-elk-hunter-found-dead/
« Last Edit: November 25, 2017, 11:16:12 AM by Jason »

Offline hoof rot

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Hunter
  • ***
  • Join Date: Sep 2015
  • Posts: 110
  • Location: porter & okanogan
  • everything tastes better on the wetside
Re: Missing Elk Hunter GPNF
« Reply #48 on: November 25, 2017, 10:34:26 AM »
Sad, hunting solo can b risky business

Offline huntnfmly

  • Trade Count: (+36)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Apr 2007
  • Posts: 4707
Re: Missing Elk Hunter GPNF Update on 2nd page
« Reply #49 on: November 25, 2017, 10:35:37 AM »
Damn it .prayers to the family
I'm your dam tour guide Arnie please don’t wonder off the dam tour.
Take as many dam pictures as you want ....
Are there any dam questions ..

Offline carpsniperg2

  • Site Sponsor
  • Global Moderator
  • Trade Count: (+126)
  • Legend
  • *****
  • Join Date: Sep 2009
  • Posts: 31430
  • Location: Goldendale,WA
Re: Missing Elk Hunter GPNF Update on 2nd page
« Reply #50 on: November 25, 2017, 10:44:04 AM »
Very sad and prayers sent to the family. Glad they got some closure and they were able to find him and be able to lay him to rest.

It said not far from his rig. That country is thick and there was a lot of people looking for him.
Owner: SPLIT DIAMOND TACTICAL
Firearms/Transfers/Parts/Optics
2011 HW Head Competition Winner

Offline Sandberm

  • Political & Covid-19 Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2013
  • Posts: 4935
Re: Missing Elk Hunter GPNF Update on 2nd page
« Reply #51 on: November 25, 2017, 11:41:05 AM »
Reminds me of something that my dad and I were talking about the other day.

When I was 15(1985) my parents got a call about 7pm at night from the daughter in law of a gentleman who had gone missing. They had found his truck parked beside an asparagus field and figured he had stopped to do a bit of pheasant hunting. She asked us if we could go to the field and help search for him. So dad and I grabbed flashlights and because the field was only a mile down the road we were the first ones there. I think one of his sons was the only other person there. I set out going one way around the field, my dad another way and the son another direction. Soon after the cops showed up along with another 10-15 people. The police organized a grid search through the chest high asparagus.

To make a long story short he wasnt a hundred yards from his pickup in between a ditch and the field when one of his sons found him. I think I walked right by him in the dark with my flashlight a short time earlier and never saw him. There was nothing that could have been done anyway as he had had a massive heart attack and died. Still...he was right there, why didnt I see him?

I can remember it like it was yesterday.

Offline slowhand

  • Trade Count: (+3)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Sep 2008
  • Posts: 676
  • Location: maple valley, wa
  • Seahawk fan for life
Re: Missing Elk Hunter GPNF Update on 2nd page
« Reply #52 on: November 25, 2017, 12:26:16 PM »
So sad  :'(
I hunt solo often and will for sure think about this for a while. 
Seahawks
Hunting
Fishing
In That order

Offline saylean

  • Team Slayer Packmule
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Old Salt
  • ******
  • Join Date: Jun 2007
  • Posts: 8380
  • Location: Stanwood
Re: Missing Elk Hunter GPNF Update on 2nd page
« Reply #53 on: November 25, 2017, 01:18:20 PM »
That's a shame. Many of my family including myself hunt solo often. My hope is that it was quick. Rest easy hunter. Glad there is closure for the family, despite being such a horrible closure.

Offline rudedawg1085

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Scout
  • ****
  • Join Date: Oct 2008
  • Posts: 253
  • Location: Kent, wa
Re: Missing Elk Hunter GPNF Update on 2nd page
« Reply #54 on: November 25, 2017, 04:57:59 PM »
Very sad indeed,  prayers to his friends and family. In honor of Joel, I took a shot and left one for him.
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

Thomas Edison

Offline WapitiTalk1

  • Forum Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (+9)
  • Old Salt
  • *****
  • Join Date: Oct 2011
  • Posts: 7434
  • Location: Wet Side, Rainier, WA
  • Groups: RMEF, NRA, US Army (R)
Re: Missing Elk Hunter GPNF Update on 2nd page
« Reply #55 on: November 25, 2017, 05:04:57 PM »
So sad. Thoughts and prayers to his family
Darton Archery Maverick II
Traditions Vortek StrikeFire Smoke Pole
Weatherby VG-2 Boomstick
"Poking at a campfire with a stick is one of life's great satisfactions." Patrick F. McManus

Offline biggfish

  • Political & Covid-19 Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2013
  • Posts: 754
  • Location: Spanaway
  • Groups: NRA
Re: Missing Elk Hunter GPNF Update on 2nd page
« Reply #56 on: November 25, 2017, 09:37:18 PM »
Sad, hunting solo can b risky business
I solo hunt myself, I've fallen off the mountain and was able to drag my way out. But every time I read about a hunter out solo dying in the field it sure gets me thinking about my own situation. It's got me seriously looking at a spot. Won't prevent an accident, but it might prevent a tragedy.

Sent from my LG-K425 using Tapatalk

Now then, get your equipment—your quiver and bow—and go out to the open country to hunt some wild game for me.  Gen. 27:3

Offline huntnphool

  • Chance favors the prepared mind!
  • Political & Covid-19 Topics
  • Trade Count: (+15)
  • Legend
  • ******
  • Join Date: Apr 2007
  • Posts: 32690
  • Location: Pacific NorthWest
Re: Missing Elk Hunter GPNF Update on 2nd page
« Reply #57 on: November 25, 2017, 09:45:51 PM »
 Very sad.

 The name sounds very familiar, was he a member on here?
The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those who got there first!

Offline Angus

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Oct 2008
  • Posts: 1303
  • Location: Kelso, WA
Re: Missing Elk Hunter GPNF Update on 2nd page
« Reply #58 on: November 25, 2017, 10:46:18 PM »
Reminds me of something that my dad and I were talking about the other day.

When I was 15(1985) my parents got a call about 7pm at night from the daughter in law of a gentleman who had gone missing. They had found his truck parked beside an asparagus field and figured he had stopped to do a bit of pheasant hunting. She asked us if we could go to the field and help search for him. So dad and I grabbed flashlights and because the field was only a mile down the road we were the first ones there. I think one of his sons was the only other person there. I set out going one way around the field, my dad another way and the son another direction. Soon after the cops showed up along with another 10-15 people. The police organized a grid search through the chest high asparagus.

To make a long story short he wasnt a hundred yards from his pickup in between a ditch and the field when one of his sons found him. I think I walked right by him in the dark with my flashlight a short time earlier and never saw him. There was nothing that could have been done anyway as he had had a massive heart attack and died. Still...he was right there, why didnt I see him?

I can remember it like it was yesterday.

Similar story, A cousin of mine took his own life on a hunting trip back in 1991. As we left camp that morning he told me he was headed to the same spot he shot a buck the year before, I knew the area well. That night when he didn't show up at camp we called the sheriff and the next morning a search party showed up and spent 3 days searching the area, this included 2 days with a helicopter in the air, they didn't find him. Family and friends spent 3 more days searching before we found him, he was maybe 50' from where he shot the deer the previous year, I personally searched that area 3 times and you could see numerous pieces of marker tape from SAR in the area but they never saw him either. He was wearing a blaze orange jacket, but the way he fell next to a log made him nearly invisible unless you walked within about 10' of him.
Luckily, or unluckily for him, a family friend happened to stumble across his body. Never want to go through something like that again.

Offline Sandberm

  • Political & Covid-19 Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2013
  • Posts: 4935
Re: Missing Elk Hunter GPNF Update on 2nd page
« Reply #59 on: November 26, 2017, 08:22:38 AM »
Very sad.

 The name sounds very familiar, was he a member on here?

I thought of Pastor Joel when I read the name. He just posted yesterday so it wasnt him.

 


* Advertisement

* Recent Topics

Springer 2024 Columbia River by Blacklab
[Today at 02:35:54 PM]


Springer Fishing Opportunity 3/29 & 3/30 by Blacklab
[Today at 12:48:56 PM]


Long Beach Clamming Tides by dilleytech
[Today at 12:39:19 PM]


Let’s see your best Washington buck by abhold87
[Today at 12:03:27 PM]


Bearpaw Season - Spring 2024 by bearpaw
[Today at 11:45:41 AM]


Walked a cougar down by Rainier10
[Today at 11:17:49 AM]


SB 5444 signed by Inslee on 03/26 Takes Effect on 06/06/24 by hughjorgan
[Today at 09:03:26 AM]


Average by lhrbull
[Today at 07:31:56 AM]


CVA optima V2 LR tapped hole for front sight by Remdawg
[Today at 07:09:22 AM]

SimplePortal 2.3.7 © 2008-2024, SimplePortal