Interesting find while buthering my Cow.

[jrebel]

Butchered my cow elk today and found that she had been shot with a Rifle.  Her left hip was fractured and there were bullet fragments in both her left and right front shoulders.  The meat was all good with the exception of a small (quarter sized piece in the front shoulder where lead fragments were found.  The bone was not healed / healing so I have to believe this happened fairly recently.  This was not last years rifle / muzzy cow elk permit hunters.....this was the work of a poacher. 

She was a very big and healthy cow....I am glad I killed and put her out of her misery.  I can't imagine walking on that broken hip was comfortable. 

I hate poachers.   

[bobcat]

Glad you put her out of her misery. Couldn't it have been a Yakama member who shot her? I believe their cow season is August 1 to December 31.

[PlateauNDN]

Our season is sept. 1 to December 31 for cows/does actually. Do you mind sharing general area?

[bobcat]

Oh yeah, that's what I meant to say!

[jrebel]

336 Taneum unit. 

[go4steelhd]

I shot a nice buck a few years ago and he had 15 to 20 pellets from a shot gun in his face and neck. Very sad what some people do

[CAMPMEAT]

We shot a bull up Blue Creek on Blewitt Pass. It had been stuck with an arrow and had a hard ball of tissue or something around the broad head. The shaft was unscrewed from the broadhead.....weird.

[kirkl]

Those da mn injuns. Specially the ones that love oregon football jk

[ctwiggs1]

Sometimes bad shots happen.  It really sucks, and I'm sure whoever put that bullet in her felt terrible.  It makes me feel better about the one buck that I've lost to know that you killed this cow.  Maybe someone killed that buck and was able to keep the meat.

[RadSav]

But I thought only archery hunters wounded animals.  I bet it was one of those lead tipped broadheads or something

[xXLojackXx]

But I thought only archery hunters wounded animals.  I bet it was one of those lead tipped broadheads or something

Exactly. One of those 225gr poly tipped broadheads. All rifle hunters know that only archery hunters wound animals.

[jrebel]

Well unless it was a native american hunter it had to be a poacher.  I am waiting for my partners pics as we notice a wound in the hide that we marked up to when she fell down the hill....but now I think it was a bullet hole / cut.  I want to see of it was in the impact side.  If so the cow was shot in the butt.....breaking the hip exiting and cutting the hide with bullet fragments and reentering the shoulder.  The cut in the hide was still open and not healed which means it had to be only a wek or so old.   

[RadSav]

Is there a Master Hunter or Disabled Hunter cow hunt close to there?  I know both groups get a cow hunt starting in August.  I'm just not up to date on where those hunts are.

[jrebel]

Is there a Master Hunter or Disabled Hunter cow hunt close to there?  I know both groups get a cow hunt starting in August.  I'm just not up to date on where those hunts are.

I hope a master hunter didn't Texas heart shoot a cow....but now that you mention it there has been master hunter cow permits in there before.  Not sure if they still are though.  Not sure about dissaed????it is steep and deep so I wouldn't imagine so.

[RadSav]

I know more than one Master Hunter (name always makes me laugh) that struggled mightily to pass the offhand shooting test.  All but one borrowed a 20" barreled 257 Bob from me to pass it.