Poacher has my 5x5 elk

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jackelope:
this is shaping up to be a 5 pager...
the list of possible things to call this or the poacher or the hunter or the elk is endless.

boneaddict:
Well I certainly wouldn't fault anyone for picking up a skull or set of antlers, whether the state considers it legal or not. That will be up to them. HOWEVER...... If someone knowingly picks up something that they know who it belongs too and tries to keep it...then that is just dirty pool PERIOD. The thirty minutes should have been up. I take it longtat beat the *censored* ot of the guy an now is in prison since we haven't hear from him

Curly:
The guy might in fact be a poacher, but in this instance he did not poach. I don't know what the official poaching definition is, but in my book poaching means to illegally kill an animal. The guy didn't kill it, so he is not a poacher for taking the head. What he did is illegal, though and he is an A-hole since he did not help out the hunter (who tracked him down). The guy could have just appologized for taking the head and gave the head back; he had an opportunity to just say "sorry......I didn't think anyone was coming back for it, so I took it; here, let me help you get it into your truck."

I would have called the poaching hotline and got the game warden out there ASAP once I discovered the bull with the head missing.

GoldTip:
Sounds like Longtat did everything he could do to find the animal after he made a couple of not perfectly placed shots, which happens. This resulted in an animal he did not find for an extended period of time. Unfortunately it sounds like someone beat him to it, now the question is whether or not the meat was good or bad when the guy took the head.

If it was good and he wasted it, he should be tarred and feathered and quite possibly drawn and quartered as well. If the meat had turned, then taking the head and horns, although illegal, probably seemed like the right thing to do, since it was already dead. But either way I would not refer to this guy as a poacher.

Now the question of lying to the guy(longtat) once you knew who's animal it was and you had his ARROW in posession. Now that is full on BS and the guy is lucky that LongTat did not take the law into his own hands right at that moment. I simply hope that there is a good end to this story, ie; I hope Longtat gets his horns back.

Now here's a question. Does Longtat tag the horns once he gets them back? :)

Machias:
He should tag the elk irregardless of whether he ever found the elk or not IMO. You drive an arrow up to the nock through the gut and one down through the top there is no wondering if the animal might make it or not. Whether you recover it or not, you should notch your tag, IMO.

I hope he gets his horns back!

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