no luck finding a positive shot on a true spike over there this last weekend.
i had MANY chances to fire, but i wasnt 100 percent positive that it was an honest true spike i held off and passed up on atlest 5 shots.
Sunday morning though, my Nephew, Brother in law and I were heading to another ravine when we seen two fellas tossing branches in a thicket of trees. we thought they were making a blind so didnt think anything of it.
We passed em up a bit then decided to rest, when we stopped they tipped out of the area with loaded down packs, we scratched our heads wondering why they were packinf such heavy pags out on a hunt.
After they blazed out of the area i noticed a brownish color area in the same spot they were at, i glassed it close with the binocs and hightailed it over. they cut the head, backstraps, all legs and what good cuts they could get without gutting the bull.
it was ahuge bull too and no way in hell it was a spike, they didnt have a head with antlers in their packs so we started looking for it but never found it.
it really pissed us all off bigtime the way they wasted the elk. Only the tribes can harvest in this fasion the gamie said shortly after stopping us to take a looksee at the 6 point shed my inlaw found.
he pulled us over at the bottom of the mountain, we told him DETAILED directions and witnesses to the kill, he headed back up there today (monday) to explore and with a dogs help find that head.
we also found two unspent 300 Win mags on the ground near the carcass with really NICE clear fingerprints lol!
so, somebodys day will be ruined soon.
Theeres just no way in hell that the Bull was a tru spike by the size of the hoofs they left behind. No possible way.
and the snaggle racked 4x5 that was in that thicket all weekend was now gone.
Kind of interesting to find a dead animal in the same trees as the old guy stayed in alone even with hunters walking past constantly.
It was the first and only shot i heard all day sundsy, and it was right after pullthetrigger:30AM too.
i hope they get caught and suffer.
In the eastern area we were in, the bull to cow ratio is only 7 bulls to 100 cow and thats why the WDFW chose to make it true spike.
he and his partner wrote up more than 8 tickets saturday for two points up to a 5x6 bull.
they confiscated the kills and donated them all to the mission i was told.
Too many idiots with rifles in the woods last saturday, if people hunt a true spike only area then they need to know the rules and regulations before leaving camp or they should stay home and buy beef and pork at safeway.
They are ruining it for the rest of us that actually follow harvesting rules.
I am going back up there tomorrow night.
