Did someone lose an elk?

[Chesapeake]

I'm guessing it has bean dead a few weeks. It doesnt look like a poor cleaning job to me. It looks like the animals drug off the two legs they could drag off. The front leg isnt attached by any bone and the hind leg would just require chewing the hip joint loose.

Were the ivories in it? I would guess even a sloppy hunter would have grabbed the ivories and the arrow.

I found a 5x5 bull elk during rifle season several years back that looked just like that. Actualy so very close to that its almost scary. The arrow in the elk I found had bean chewed on around the knock and fletching. It was a camo easton aluminum with a Muzzy broadhead. Still have it.

[MIKEXRAY]

I was hunting late season by Naches River and ran into a young indian who was driving around looking for crows. He said thats how he got his buck last year, by looking for the crows & finding another archers kill.   I also found a fork horn mulie drilled in the fore head and left to rot, it was a three point area. That is a sadder situation than not finding game, shooting something not legal and leaving it.

[bucklucky]

 

[1bowhunter1]

It looks like the elk was going the other way when shot  (From behind)    To bad!

[Hunterman]

Well even nature gets a free meal every now and then.. Looks like the 'yote and birds had a good time.. Nothing goes to waste in the forest.

Hunterman(Tony)

[robb92]

After looking at the picture it would seem to me that no one tried the gutless method or even took any of the meat.  Looks like some yotes or cougar got ahold of it and cleaned it out. because it looks like the gut sack has not been moved but just openend. The bottom line is that it is a waste and to bad the "shooter" couldn't find it. Just hope he or she didn't figure that it was only nicked and went on hunting.

[jae]

Where are the upper legs at?  I don't see two hoofs.  Were they scattered somewhere?  Rear Femur?  Front Scapula? 

How did  the hide look?  Was it cut so the Backstap was removed?

Did someone just fill up a backpack and leave the rest?    Hum?

+1

[Slow-1]

I would say it was not found. If it was found and only high graded they would have take their arrow .If the it had the gutless method used all the legs would be gone.Also it was not that bad of a shot with the forward angle it got one lung for sure and maybe caught the other one its hard to tell in the picture exactly.looks like a poor track job to me.