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Offline skywalker253

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Re: Master elk hunt in Yakima
« Reply #120 on: January 05, 2013, 11:56:27 PM »
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I also found out he was charged with 36 felonies for falsifying damage claims and his oat counts.

Well, that's B.S. the fact is that that those charges were all dropped and he was not convicted of anything. He does let hunters on his ground, all he asks for is a little help once in awhile to earn the right to hunt there.

If it weren't for private land in the 162 unit there'd be no elk for sure due to the overload hunters put on the public ground.

Not trying to screw up this topic, but for the record; Wilber Eaton and his wife had me over and explained to me the politics between their family and the game department. He told me he plea bargained out of it. He ended up receiving 7 felony charges and a handful of misdemenors at reduced penalty. He told me it cost him over $23,000 in fines, plus he had to payback over $56,000 for falsifying his oat counts, which he insisted too me that he was innocent and made and I quote "an honest mistake." Either way; I could careless. My only problem I had with him, was he was happy to take crab, fish, oysters, etc. from me, but when it came opening day he did a 360 and told me I could not hunt his property. That is his right, but I planned my hunt out 1 year in advance, lost points, time, money, etc.

And yes he does let a few people hunt his property, but only a small section, which only hosts deer. He told me himself their is NO ELK on that section, and he only lets 6 people per day on that portion. I was not there to hunt deer, I had an elk special draw tag. I lost 8 points because of it.

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Re: Master elk hunt in Yakima
« Reply #121 on: January 06, 2013, 09:10:17 AM »
I paid Rob 500 back in 2010 he ended up having a buddy take me out to show me his land and no elk that day.  Never called me back either when I was leaving messages to try and go again once he had my money.  When the elk are in there it does seem like it would be easy and I can see why people pay for the access.
Same experience I had.   He says pay once and you get 1 year of access, then never returns calls after he has your money.....  Glad to hear I wasn't the only one to figure out this guy was bad news.  I would also point out that his appearance on this site seems to be only for advertising purposes...  Take another look at his post record.    :bdid:
Is he a paying sponsor???

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Re: Master elk hunt in Yakima
« Reply #122 on: January 06, 2013, 09:30:53 AM »
He didn't start the thread and he has a right to defend himself.    Yes, he manages  to keep getting this bumped.  Its grey for sure.  I would lhave locked this up a long time ago, but this could be warning other folks and again he should be able to defend himself if accused.

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Re: Master elk hunt in Yakima
« Reply #123 on: January 06, 2013, 09:56:31 AM »
Dudes,
Get that stuff in writing.  I only did the pay to play on a farmers land.  I wrote up the contact and had the fish and wildlife look at it as well.  Made some changes and drove over to pay in cash and had him sign it.  If he would have did the 360 I would have said to pound sand and kept hunting.  Let him call the cops as I have a signed document. He never did go back on his word but I was ready.



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