One less bull in the Tieton Dr. herd...

[fishunt247]

Bigdogg, are you from Yakima? I could walk out of my back door right now and walk to the feeding station. I'd be there in maybe ten minutes. Unless a haybarn with a Game Dept. truck where the game dept. feeds elk in the winter isn't a feedings station??? It isn't in Tampico (and I'm pretty sure nobody stated that it was), but I could walk from Tampico from my house too. It isn't that far.

My dad knows both game wardens personally. There were two of them. And I'm not comfortable putting their names on the internet. Given the situation, I'm not sure why...

[biggdogg]

no one's ever answered my question why do they waste money feeding elk, and yes I am an enrolled member after I re read it u said tieton sorry thought it was tampico

[chester]

because someone in olympia didnt want the poor lil elks to starve.

[fishunt247]

They feed elk because everyone living in West Valley, Yakima, Selah, Naches, etc. live right where they elk used to migrate through. They had to put up a fence to keep the elk from running into orchards and through town. Basically, they are stopped from migrating down to where they would have to winter in less snow. So they supplemental feed because the snow can get too deep out here.

[bobcat]

Bigtines remarks r getting old sound like he's pretty damn racist to me, r u talking about taking it into your own hands, or shooting indians that is freakin crazy and bone addict does nothing but say their were 2 different comments

This shows how strongly people feel about these types of incidents. It's pretty frustrating to know this kind of poaching is going on and nothing is being done about it. Surely this way of "hunting" cannot be legal even by the tribal rules, is it?  

[biggdogg]

So that explains why the elk come running down the hill with a couple of inches of snow

[270Shooter]

So that explains why the elk come running down the hill with a couple of inches of snow

Yes its called migration

[biggdogg]

Just gets old seeing all the threats towards indians it's pretty sad when a trophy bull is worth more than someone's life pretty classy

[UBA]

Should of reported them as white teenage males. Would of had plenty of game wardens showing up. A few years back some one shot multiple deer on the winter range and left everthing except the heads. Someone descriped a red toyota to the gamies. A local high school kid happened to drive a red toyota. After several wardens and county cops searched their house and car and harassed them for several hours they left with nothing. How come they bring out the guns for normal investigations but can't even do a simple stop and check to someone that looks tribal. That's total bs on the game departments part. Lazy

[Coastal_native]

Migrating elk? Snow? Feeding stations? Being able to heard elk with a truck?.......Man I'm glad I live on the westside.

[biggdogg]

it's called looking for a handout like the indians do according to some other thread

[fishunt247]

There was 8 inches of snow out here on Sunday when the bull was shot. That means there was probably two feet on Nasty Creek Flats and maybe just as much on the top of Pine Mountain. You better believe I wouldn't want to dig through all of that snow to find grass. I'd be migrating down to a lower elevation where I didn't have to work as hard to get my food to survive. They haven't started feeding yet out here, and there were probably only 150 elk out here (and only 5 were in the actual feeding station). Bigdogg, you've made like three very poorly thought out remarks so far. Elk and deer migrate out of higher elevations when it snows in every western state. This is nothing new.

[biggdogg]

Where else do they feed them we don't feed our elk and they do just fine, maybe if they didn't get fed they would stay out of range of tribal hunters, just wait they will get smarter just like the elk at oak creek they don't just stand there anymore as soon as they see someone they r on the move, hopefully they get smart.

[norsepeak]

Lost two huge bulls out of the Nile on Friday morning.  Two natives in a red toyota pickup.  Passed them on the hiway, then saw the game warden, so I stopped to talk to him.  Said he pulled them over and they were Yakama's, and he said they were legal.  They shot both of the biggest bulls they could find just west of the feeding station area, he said they were standing in the meadow, waiting for the feeding to start.  Both bulls were well over 300.  The ironic thing is the natives told the GW that they were hunting for subsistence.....so my question is if it's for food, why not shoot a cow or calf...can't eat horns, but you can sell them for a bunch of money

[biggdogg]

you want to talk about poorly thought out remarks u should read every thread that talks about indians u will see a lot more than 3, and i think poorly thought out is an understatement, kind of like 2 indians backing up to 320 in bull and loading it whole and leaving.