Hey you dirt bag, that's "MY" elk!

[j_h_nimrod]

Had a friend arrow one at last light out of Manson and bumped it once so backed off n went back first light. Coyotes had eaten ~90%of the animal.  He took the horns and they were even gnawed.

My Weimaraner pup was able to stand on her hind legs and eat ~2lbs of rump in about 5 minutes, but that is the closest I can recall.

[Sitka_Blacktail]

My brother shot a moose in Alaska at last light and got it gutted. Came back the next day with an airboat to haul it out and it was gone but there was a well defined drag mark in the moss. They followed it a few hundred yards and came upon a brownie that was laying next to a big pile of dirt and brush. They ran the brownie off with the airboat and went back to the pile and could see an antler sticking out. They got the moose out and salvaged most of it. The bear had drug it about 300 yards.

Another time I took a friend deer hunting on Kodiak and he shot his first deer and was tickled to say the least. We brought it to town where we were staying with a friend about three blocks from the Kodiak Post Office. He had a wooden shed in his back yard and we skinned the deer and hung it to age until the day we flew out. The friend we were staying with went out to quarter it and box it the morning we were leaving and came running back in the house to tell us a bear had chewed the deer in half and taken the hind quarters. We went out and sure enough the door had been busted in. It had scartch marks all around it. Then it had evidently closed behind the bear when it was chewing on the deer, as it had busted out one of the walls on the shed to get out with the goods. Darn bears never seem to leave the same way the come in. Anyway, we called fish and game and a trooper came over to investigate and he found what was left of the hind quarters a couple hundred yards behind the house. They were in no shape to salvage, so we went home with only half of that deer.

[wapitislayer]

Our hunting group in Idaho had elk quarters scattered a couple different times so we started leaving a can or two of kodiak chew opened around the meat and we have had no animals messing around with the meat

[shallowforks]

Coyotes demolished a doe i shot with my recurve. Waited 1 hr before tracking and tracking took 45 min. I started seeing coyote tracks following the blood trail and it appeared that the doe started running again so im pretty sure they were on it before it expired. Less than 2 hours from shot to recovery and it wasnt salvageable.

[JWEBB]

Has anybody had a bear (or even another predator) lay claim to their elk kill before you had completely packed all the meat back to camp? Were you able to get the slime bag off your kill, or, did you have to just call it a day and sacrifice the rest of the meat to the predator?

Have had this happen 2 times. No matter what the situation, I would absolutely never let a predator keep me from getting my kill. I’m always packing heat even when I have my packboard on.

[mountainman]

Not an elk, but we had a deer that we gave 2 hours to before tracking, mid morning time. Deer only made it 60yards on its own, bear drug it another 50 before having a butt snack. Nephew almost got a shot on the bear.

Brett needs to be quicker👍

[Axle]

Lost half a moose to a grizz and her two young ones in Alaska one year.

[WA hunter14]

My dad had a badger lay claim to a mule deer

[Jonathan_S]

Has anybody had a bear (or even another predator) lay claim to their elk kill before you had completely packed all the meat back to camp? Were you able to get the slime bag off your kill, or, did you have to just call it a day and sacrifice the rest of the meat to the predator?

Have had this happen 2 times. No matter what the situation, I would absolutely never let a predator keep me from getting my kill. I’m always packing heat even when I have my packboard on.

Imagine those guys who've been bushwhacked by a grizz while breaking down an elk or deer  even with a gun my first instinct would probably be to run 

[baldopepper]

Came back to camp a few years back to find a couple of great white pyrenees dogs munching a deer I had hanging.  Sheep herders imbed those dogs with their sheep herds and they can be kinda nasty to deal with (they're about the size of a Saint Bernard dog). Ran those two off but had to find a higher tree to hang deer in as they kept coming back.  Twice I've come back to find a weasel making a home inside a hanging deer, they're nasty little buggars also as they keep going back inside the gutted carcass and don't want to come out.

[KFhunter]

Came back to camp a few years back to find a couple of great white pyrenees dogs munching a deer I had hanging.  Sheep herders imbed those dogs with their sheep herds and they can be kinda nasty to deal with (they're about the size of a Saint Bernard dog). Ran those two off but had to find a higher tree to hang deer in as they kept coming back.  Twice I've come back to find a weasel making a home inside a hanging deer, they're nasty little buggars also as they keep going back inside the gutted carcass and don't want to come out.

guess I'll add a welding glove to my kill kit 

[Jonathan_S]

Came back to camp a few years back to find a couple of great white pyrenees dogs munching a deer I had hanging.  Sheep herders imbed those dogs with their sheep herds and they can be kinda nasty to deal with (they're about the size of a Saint Bernard dog). Ran those two off but had to find a higher tree to hang deer in as they kept coming back.  Twice I've come back to find a weasel making a home inside a hanging deer, they're nasty little buggars also as they keep going back inside the gutted carcass and don't want to come out.

guess I'll add a welding glove to my kill kit 

Still not sure I'd grab one  those guys are a tiny ball of fury, muscle, and razor sharp teeth

[KFhunter]

always wanted a pet weasel to send down gopher holes.  You ever watch "the mink man" on youtube?  Trains minks to chase muskrats, kinda cool 

I think somewhere in the video series he talks about weasels being too difficult to train and make a mink look tame 

[theleo]

I've had a bear help themselves to elk before. I'm usually safe leaving an animal over night if shot at last light, but not always.

[j_h_nimrod]

I forgot about the marten eating my buddies backstrap. We hung it on the cabin porch so nothing could reach it, but apparently marten are into aerial acrobatics and had jumped from somewhere and was hanging there eating on it at about 4 in the morning. I stepped out to take a leak and noticed something different with the backstrap and on closer look spotted the marten.  No good sticks or weapons were handy until I spied the empty 1/2 rack of Alaska Amber bottles. I hucked one from about 4’ knocking it off and then proceeded to punt it off the porch.