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| WDFW Hates ME!!!:
Now this is just my take on it. 1 persons opinion and we all have them... The kid/guy that cut the head off is far from a poacher. He did not kill a game animal, during season or out of season. Bull was dead already. Now is the guy an ass??? Yup sure as heck is. He was irresponsible for doing what he did, and was completely wrong. But he is hardly a poacher, more like a thief. Hope you get your head back, To me it sounds like the head is more important to you than turning the kid in for dragging a game animal to an area where it would not be found to rot without a head. I would be far more pissed that the animal was wasted because of this kid than to get a head back. You can always get an opportunity to shoot another bull, but that one you arrowed this year is a wasted game animal... |
| boneaddict:
While we are waiting for the outcome of this...here is something else that I have heard of happening, and it happened to my brother once until a neighbor/landowner stepped in, and it happened to me once. I shot a two point(before the rules) in the open sage. Before I could get to it (200 yards away) a guy foot raced to it. I figured he was just gong to admire it. I got to it and he had put his tag on it. he said "better luck next time". I didn't say a word. I was so mad that if I would have said a word, I would have killed him. If it would have been a bigger buck we would have had a different sitution. Any one have this happen to them. I've heard of this a bunch in the clockum. I'll tell my other stoy later...right now dinner is being served. |
| billythekidrock:
I have heard two different outcomes to that same story. 1. the game warden makes both parties split the meat 2. the game warden says the one that tagged it is the owner. Luckily it has never happened to me. |
| Bridger:
I shot a spike elk in the clockum a few years ago.It was a muzzle loader hunt,tracked the bull about 300 hundred yards down hill,found and taged the elk.I was just about done with field dressing and a guy comes down and says this is his elk.I told him it had 2 holes in it and both were mine,he stayed around a while and then showed up in my camp.Now I am getting pissed,with this guy harrasing me.He counts two holes in the carcus ,says he was wrong,and drives awayThis could of gotten to be real bad as i was not backing down from this guy. |
| wrangler:
just read all 3 pages of this debocale and i keep hearing circus music playing the background.... actually i think some monkeys just rode by on tri-cycles! so the gamies are bringing you "your" horns? on what grounds? hear-say? i have my doubts about that..... unless the kid confessed and gave em up, even then i doubt they'd hand em over with smiles and handshakes. now im DEFINATLY not defending him lying about what happend, or even cutting off the head and leaving the meat (which im sure is illegal no matter how long its been dead or by how) and if it were me id most likely give you the horns back, unless you came up to me 'guns a blazin' then id prolly laugh. don't forget YOU chose to pick up a bow and sling an arrow that must have missed it's mark, it happens, but after 3 days notch your tag and move on, if someone else found it thats just plain ol bad luck, and once again, it happens all the time.... not to be an ass but i don't think you have much of a legal leg to stand on, as much it sucks. oh, and poacher is forsure not the right term... dirtbag? most likely. good luck! |
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