Did someone lose an elk?

[piledup]

I found this on Dec. 8th. Seems like a bowhunter shot it but couldn't track it. How long do you guys think it was dead?

[BULLBLASTER]

bad to shoot elk in the guts... they use hay bales for targets for a reason.
it happens... that thing could have covered a lot of ground with the arrow in there if pushed. what gmu is this?

[saylean]

crappy...hate to see that no matter who shot at it. I would say 2 weeks dead.

[GoldTip]

yes, thats a sad deal.  Would probably be a hard animal to track from the looks of the entrance wound.

[croix]

December 15th is four days from now. Did you mean Nov. 15 or was this in '07?

[broken-arrow]

That is a sad site indeed!  This looks like it was likely shot towards the latter part of the early season providing you took the photo on November 15 and not December 15...

[buck470]

Ran across one just similar, 2 weeks ago, the carcass was pretty much intact, except for one hole the size of a tennis ball in it's gut.

It's a waste.

[EastWaViking]

Hate to see that.     

[huntnphool]

That sucks. White nock, green/orange fletching, who is it. HuntWa CSI

[piledup]

That is a sad site indeed!  This looks like it was likely shot towards the latter part of the early season providing you took the photo on November 15 and not December 15...

Wrong date. It's supposed to be the 8th of December.

[broken-arrow]

What GMU did you find this?

[roadhuntking]

Well you can eliminate me, wrong side of elk, right colored fletching and wrong color knock. Sad deal.

[rasbo]

  >:(more and more people are bow hunting for the season not the sport.not that thats what happened..hope they tore up their tag

[rougheye]

You can say the same thing about rifle hunters . This year i came across 3 bucks in the swakane , 2    3- points and 1   4point and i know they werent there during shed season . Unfortunatly it is a sad part of hunting . All we can do is hope they tried like hell to find them but if you hunt long enough than you know chit happens .

[saylean]

I hunt both rifle and bow and I can say I have easily found more animals killed by rifle than those by bow, which were not recovered.