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I don't know who shot the bull. I have friends who live on Watt Canyon road that I hear from. I've hunted a lot in that area and I don't care if somebody sits on the hill above the ranch and hunts, more power to them. My complaint is if people do things that are illegal or unethical in the name of hunting and give the rest of us a black eye. I don't know Nailbender and I didn't see him shoot his bull so I have no issue with him. I'm relating information I received from people who live right there and I think it's relevant because I know they don't have any reason to make this stuff up, they're hunters too. Why would you get defensive about this if my point is that some people do the wrong thing and it affects all of us? The difference there compared to elsewhere is that what you do is visible from a lot of places.
Unfortunately there's always some guy who plants his buddies on the draw up the hill behind there, sneaks past the safety zone signs, and chases them up the hill off of the Heart K. Everybody around there sees it or hears about it and it gives us all a bad name as greedy slobs. A few years ago a guy shot a big muzzleloader bull that way, his friend chased it to him off the Heart K, then he went around posting pictures and bragging about what a great hunter he was. Too bad. I like the welfare elk tag, especially when they move over to Joe Watt.
It sounds like it must have been a nice bull, I congratulate him on that for his first elk. Nobody told me a name, they just described an event that they witnessed. It sounds like it could have been any number of guys. I was certainly never blaming Nailbender or anybody else specifically because I didn't see it. Everybody jumped right onto this and started thumping their chest when my intent was to merely state that we, as sportsmen and women, should hunt by the rules, it's good for our future and our image. I'm not quite sure where we decided we needed to argue about that. Have a good season this year.
Quote from: RG on September 12, 2012, 06:59:21 AMIt sounds like it must have been a nice bull, I congratulate him on that for his first elk. Nobody told me a name, they just described an event that they witnessed. It sounds like it could have been any number of guys. I was certainly never blaming Nailbender or anybody else specifically because I didn't see it. Everybody jumped right onto this and started thumping their chest when my intent was to merely state that we, as sportsmen and women, should hunt by the rules, it's good for our future and our image. I'm not quite sure where we decided we needed to argue about that. Have a good season this year.Yes we will try to have a good season in about 12 days, and same to you.
dang- I leave for a day of archery Elk hunting and everyone gets all fired up! heheheI just want to get my 25 bonus points from dirty24d
Quote from: Pinetar on September 10, 2012, 09:17:26 PMWelfare ElkDing ding ding!!! Nice job!! I've never heard them called that before and it's so true and hilarious!
Welfare Elk
Quote from: coachcw on September 11, 2012, 09:39:40 AMto clarifiy the situation there , i used to hunt that spot and sit on elk comming and going from there . Then a couple of guys that where connected with the krd went in and set tree stands and bait in there right next to the fields . they would bugger the elk outta there . on said he had stuck a cow and lost it or didn't even pursue it . I dropped my gear and went in to a no shooting zone in the bottom of rattle snake to track the blood trail btw the boundry at the time was the cannell wich is under ground right there so even the boundry was in ?. then the lazy *censored* called the game dept . a warden came up and questioned me we cleared up the matter and the guy from krd never pursued it . i did jump then wounded cow out of there but she went hell bent towards eburg . so be carefull who the fingers get pointed towards . And there's quiet a few guys in that huch area that load up a spot with tons of mineral then sit on it not much diff really . Since I've left that camp for other reasons and as for how they hunt it in the past two years I don't know . i'm the lazy *censored* i took a welfare elk and it was timothy fed but i shot it outside the safety zone and i did recover it. i left my bow and tracked out into the field, marked last blood and two guys on the hill above pointed me in her last direction. i didnt track her immediately because i didnt want to push her and wouldn't ya know she followed the creek back and died just outside the safety zone near where i shot her, we found her that morning. called the game warden on 2 guys with bows in the safety zone days later. also the canal is underground but being connected with krd i know the boundaries very well, I'm not sure what you were trying to say but it sounds like your confused where the boundary is?
to clarifiy the situation there , i used to hunt that spot and sit on elk comming and going from there . Then a couple of guys that where connected with the krd went in and set tree stands and bait in there right next to the fields . they would bugger the elk outta there . on said he had stuck a cow and lost it or didn't even pursue it . I dropped my gear and went in to a no shooting zone in the bottom of rattle snake to track the blood trail btw the boundry at the time was the cannell wich is under ground right there so even the boundry was in ?. then the lazy *censored* called the game dept . a warden came up and questioned me we cleared up the matter and the guy from krd never pursued it . i did jump then wounded cow out of there but she went hell bent towards eburg . so be carefull who the fingers get pointed towards . And there's quiet a few guys in that huch area that load up a spot with tons of mineral then sit on it not much diff really . Since I've left that camp for other reasons and as for how they hunt it in the past two years I don't know .
