Elk taken from hunters at gun point?

[MADMAX]

Meats not worth dying for
Either way
You shoot them, your chits over too
Your life will change for what?
A fricken *censored* bag ?

[bornhunter]

 

Thankfully and fortunately I hunt on my own property. My tolerance for that crap ended years ago after spending years of my life overseas. You take from me like this and threaten, you will be dead, that fast, with everybody else in your party. So, for anyone on this site that may think stealing an animal and threatening another hunter is ok, watch out. I can deal with the consequences of my actions. Just another memory to live with.

[salmosalar]

Always immediately take the tongue of a downed animal and stick it in your pack. It would be somewhat difficult explaining to a game officer why "your" harvest has no tongue and the complainant possesses it.

That is really smart. Damn!

[johnbmyersii]

Always immediately take the tongue of a downed animal and stick it in your pack. It would be somewhat difficult explaining to a game officer why "your" harvest has no tongue and the complainant possesses it.

My grandpa always told me if I had to leave an animal to cut a big notch out of one of the ears. Him and his hunting partners in the 70s, 80s, and 90s have guys a few times either take or try to take their elk. I never thought about taking the tongue but same effect if you take a piece of the ear.

[birddogdad]

have not seen this but heard of a couple incidents near BZ Corners WA in years past.
1) two groups claiming same bull , guns, police involved in some farmland area there.. dont know outcome or if shots were fired...but definitely police engagement on that one

2) guy told story in same area when there were lots of hunters (20 years ago there were elk there). one guy on watch, shoots bull in ravine , guy runs from woods and tags bull never shooting a round...again, law involved but dont know outcome..

These are the hunters that really should be removed/ never allowed in woods again thru the system. they give us all a very bad name and leave those who would have the way of no hunting in the drivers seat with arguments.

I know i have personally found a lost elk and deer for other hunters (elk in WA and deer in other states back east when i was younger), had taken a number to contact them, asked to be called if they located while i hunted area. i found the critter and called them to come get bull. (far from were they were scouring) . Could have easily taken but were is the enjoyment in that???

[Bullkllr]

These are the hunters that really should be removed/ never allowed in woods again thru the system. they give us all a very bad name and leave those who would have the way of no hunting in the drivers seat with arguments.

Anyone who would do that is not a hunter;  rather simply a thief.

[birddogdad]

These are the hunters that really should be removed/ never allowed in woods again thru the system. they give us all a very bad name and leave those who would have the way of no hunting in the drivers seat with arguments.

Anyone who would do that is not a hunter;  rather simply a thief.

sorry , complete misuse of the word .. you are correct...

[Gringo31]

This is one of the areas my mind doesn't compute.  How?  You take another animal and then lie to everyone how you got it?  Do they brag that they took one?

If it was a big bull or buck, every time they looked at it would be a reminder of their own dark soul and what they took from someone.

I don't get it, can't imagine it and therefore am afraid how I would process it in real time.....

[300rum]

These mostly BS stories have been told around the Elk campfire for years and years.  Truth be told most of them begin on opening morning with a guy barely winging an animal and then chasing it with multiple other guys shooting it/at it while the poor animal runs the gauntlet and dies with it's tongue out looking like a pin cushion.  Both of them leave thinking someone stole/tried to steal their animal and then the story gets told again, and again, and again.     

[pianoman9701]

I bet it happens more than you'd think and I don't think the guys on here with personal experience are lying about it.  Ask your local game officer about it. You might be surprised at what he/she/they/it responds.

[hunter399]

I gotta agree on this topic.
You gotta be a piece of work ,to try and steal someones harvest.
The elk ,I mean ya chances are not in any hunters favor.
Like myself ,id have no desire to take something like that away from anybody. Luck,hard work,or how ever they harvested.
Makes no difference,I'd rather eat tag soup over another hunters harvest.
Watching someone shoot,then trying to shoot it on the run,so you can make a claim. Trying to tag it before someone else.
Or just plain stealing it,and tossing the tag from the rightful owner.
Who does that. Just redonkuless.

[ghosthunter]

And then there is the folks who shoot at an animal miss it or wing it low on the leg, but feel it’s theirs because they shot at it first.


I have always marked my animal whether I was leaving it or not just in case someone tried to take it. I could Identify it.

Just good practice.

[MADMAX]

Then there’s you dropped the bull and its dead on the ground
But you have to drop down into a canyon and up the other side to tag it snowy and slick
3/4 of the way up the other side
You hear 2 shots ring out and you haul butt up a snow covered hill to find 2 unscrupulous bastages that saw the bull go down and then ran up to it and shot it twice in the neck as it layed on the ground and tagged it
As we encountered
You say hey I just dropped that bull
And they say tough chit
It was alive when they came up on it
and “I shot it and tagged it”
“You dont like it too bad
Go back to Washington “
Game warden was called and couldn’t determine due to damage from shots
Great way for a young guy to get his first elk  and it was all I could do to keep him from kicking their arses
Meats not worth dying for
Beware these 2 guys
I hope their proud of themselves

[johnbmyersii]

On the lighter side of this thread my first elk I shot I left to grab my grandpa to help me find it. He got mad at me for leaving it just because of all these stories on this thread but two nice guys ended up finding it and then pointing us in the right direction. This was years ago but there's always honest guys in the woods too

[MADMAX]

Much more good guys than turds 👍