Hunter shot to death in eastern WA

[quadrafire]

Any more info on this case yet?

[Hertz]

I've hunted grouse in that area the last 7 years, except this year. There are some places that definitely make you want to get out of them quick. Most of the people I've run into however, are very nice and just want to be left alone, which is why they live there to begin with. This is very tragic, and I hope that whoever did it is brought to justice, and that the family of the hunter is given peace.

[timberghost72]

Didn't this almost identical thing happen a few years ago on Pontiac Ridge? I swear I remember a very similar story and it may have been a deer hunter. I remember seeing the suspects' mug in the paper. Scary looking dude from what I remember. A friend of mine took me up there a few times when I was new to hunting. Maybe he was trying to scare me 

[turkeyfeather]

From reading this thread it sounds like that area is something right out of Deliverance.  Spooky

Ditto... I'm never going there.
 

I thought the very same thing!

[quadrafire]

Makes me want to go just to say I did it

[Jonathan_S]

   I'm curious but not overly curious.

This is not an insult to any particular county or township but seriously, people who live back in the hills can be downright spooky.

I, along with thousands of others, am so shocked by this and I am following the news closely.

Such a shame

[runamuk]

From reading this thread it sounds like that area is something right out of Deliverance.  Spooky

Ditto... I'm never going there.
 

the hills of Duvall were like that in the 70's and I can tell you there are still some holdouts tucked away up there.....

I hope they solve this quickly for the sake of the family.

[jackelope]

From reading this thread it sounds like that area is something right out of Deliverance.  Spooky

Ditto... I'm never going there.
 

the hills of Duvall were like that in the 70's and I can tell you there are still some holdouts tucked away up there.....

I hope they solve this quickly for the sake of the family.

I think the hills of Duvall were like that in the 90's.

[vandeman17]

update

http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2013/sep/04/weapons-seized-in-hunting-homicide-victim-idd/

[jackelope]

CHESAW — Sheriff’s deputies on Tuesday seized weapons and ammunition from a Chesaw residence, across a remote road from where a grouse hunter was shot and killed on Monday.

The hunter, whose wife was notified Tuesday night, was Michael R. Carrigan, 52, of Hoquiam, said Okanogan County Sheriff Frank Rogers.

Rogers said no one has been arrested, but deputies searched a home at 470 Pontiac Ridge Road and questioned the residents, a father and son.

He said the house is about 100 yards from where Carrigan was shot.

Carrigan’s hunting partner, George R. Stover, 65, also of Hoquiam, near Aberdeen, told deputies that they were driving up Cow Camp Road at about 7 p.m. when they saw a grouse, and Carrigan got out of their truck to shoot it. After firing twice and missing, he heard another shot and turned to see Carrigan with blood on him fall to the ground. When Stover heard a second shot, he slid over to the driver’s seat and drove away, the sheriff said.

He called for help from another residence.

Rogers said when deputies arrived, Carrigan was dead.

He said deputies are investigating the scene as a homicide, and have been assisted by state Department of Fish and Wildlife officers, U.S. Border Patrol agents, and the Washington State Crime Lab.

“We seized a lot of evidence,” Rogers said. He said the homeowners are currently considered “persons of interest,” and the son was arrested on an unrelated warrant.

[HntnFsh]

WOW!

[270Flat]

So sad!!

[seth30]

looking more and more like pissed off landowners.  Most of the specualtion on this seems to be adding up.....

[bobcat]

Sounds like the hunting partner was lucky to drive away without getting shot as well. So does anyone on here know Michael Carrigan?

[stryker]

This is really messed up! My condolences to the family.