how many of you have taken a wounded Elk

[birddogdad]

curious how many of you have harvested Elk that have been wounded by bad shots from others. I have taken 2 in 3 seasons with this. 2012, elk had ankle blown out exposed bone, terrible infection. 2014 bull had taken an poorly chosen shot from behind directly in the ham near tail.

[lokidog]

The first elk I was in on the kill (archery, I finished him off), had an arrow scar though the front of his hind leg.  It was a pass through and was healed up nicely, 1986.

[lewy]

I killed a bull with half an arrow and broadhead in him, looked like a tree stand shot

[MLhunter1]

Shot a cow Tuesday.  After skinning her found a broadhrad buried in her leg.  Completely healed.  So much scar tissue wrapped around it you could barely get it cut apart.  Wasn't this sept that it happened. Tough critters.

[coachcw]

everyone I kill has a wound when I recover them  I have killed close to 40 elk and had one with a broken rib from a small caliber weapon.

[mkcj]

The elk my son shot his first, had been shot in the front knee, it was a Dec. hunt and she had been shot a month or more earlier and was emaciated. After thinking about it I called the WDFW and they said that we should not eat it and throw it out, by then the season was over and we couldn't get a new tag which they do for cases like this.

[100 grain]

Not an elk but brother shot a bear 1 week with a bow (couldn't find a blood trail but knew he hit it) . He was all bummed out that an animal was hurt and couldnt find it then  the following week shot the same dang one with a rifle...it was already healing really well

[WSU]

No elk but I've killed a buck with a broadhead in it.

[h20hunter]

Not an elk for me as well....this years muley doe had been shot in the hind qtr with an arrow. Healed on the outside, still plenty of damage on the inside.

[hunterbuilder]

I've never knowingly taken a wounded elk but the cow I got a few years ago had a broadhead and 2 rifle slugs in her. They were found during the meat processing and she showed no sign of injury.

[passing-thru]

In around 1987 or 88 I shot a cow on a cow tag in Lewis River area off the 90 rd. I still hunted MF then. She went down and I was walking up to recover her. As I got close to where she was a cow came stumbling out of the trees where rest of herd had gone. Assuming it was my cow I shot her. As I walked up the stink hit me. Looked as if sometime during the archery season she had been hit in ham. Infection was all through hindend. Nasty, turned out it wasn't my cow. Mine was where she fell. Figured id saved her from slow painful death and left her where she lie

[T Pearce]

Not mine, Dad had drawn a cow tag for one of the Blues units. Opening morning as they stepped from the truck to start their hunt there was a bunch of shooting in the bottom of the draw.
Not long after as they were watching escape routes a young hunter anounced that he was pushing a wounded cow up the trail (ankle broken) Dad said he yelled back to him that he had a tag and asked that the young man keep pushing her up the hill. He did and dad notched his tag beside his pickup that morning, (his last elk) 1980?
If that fellow was to read this and recall the story please pm me.
Or just accept a big thank you. His time is short and he still speaks of that hunt.
Tom

[Grizman]

I shot a cow elk in Idaho that had a 8" dead limb sticking in the left side of her neck.  It was just ahead of her shoulder going in the bottom of the neck and just below the skin.  The limb was about 3/4 around.  It must have been there for a year or more as the entrance was completely healed and there was no infection around the stick in the meat.  The exposed end was slightly shorter the length of the neck hair and looked like it had been pretty well rounded off.  I have a couple of old pictures and I will try to scan one it and post it.   

[coachcw]

Oh yeah I shother a bull thatag had a huge gore wound in his neck from the bull nail bender got in 2008

[jrebel]

My archery cow this year had been shot with a rifle.  It looked as if she was shot from the rear breaking her hip and exiting in the same side front shoulder.  The shoulder had a hole in it and the other front shoulder had bullet fragment.  Really glad I took her out of her misery.  She would have probably lived, but that back leg had to be painful.