Elk poaching?

[fireguy459]

So now that elk season is over I have converted to a duck management specialist and am starting to get really pissed off.... my buddy and I have found two dead elk carcasses in the last threeo weeks.  The first one was a bull with the head cut off which I reported to fish and game with no return phone call and the second was a calf complete left lay. Both elk were left lay not gutted and no meat missing. Today's officer told my buddy they would look into it. This appears to be a big issue... any thoughts?

[PlateauNDN]

Locations?

[PolarBear]

It is happening more and more now that the scumbags know their chances of getting caught is slim to none due to the lack of enforcement.

[bobcat]

This appears to be a big issue... any thoughts?

Yes-  you might consider sitting about 100 yards down wind from the carcasses and shooting coyotes off of them.   

[fireguy459]

Pacific county. ... I don't want to jump to any conclusions but they were literally 200 yards apart .... seems like thrill killing. I completely understand cutbacks being a government employee but two elk?  Hell one elk is too many. I have been stopped multiple times this year to check tags and make sure I am legal which is fine but lets spend some time figuring out what a$$hole is wasting Washington's resources. I hope they can catch the one bad apple.

[PlateauNDN]

Pacific county. ... I don't want to jump to any conclusions but they were literally 200 yards apart .... seems like thrill killing. I completely understand cutbacks being a government employee but two elk?  Hell one elk is too many. I have been stopped multiple times this year to check tags and make sure I am legal which is fine but lets spend some time figuring out what a$$hole is wasting Washington's resources. I hope they can catch the one bad apple.

   Also, it sounds like Bobcat has a pretty good idea.

[coachcw]

flock shooting ! the calf was probilly not the target .

[400out]

flock shooting ! the calf was probilly not the target .

maybe the bullet made it threw the first and hit the second 

[the1rod]

were there signs that it was a rifle kill? or was it possible that the calf could have been a lost archery kill? if the season was even open?

[400out]

were there signs that it was a rifle kill? or was it possible that the calf could have been a lost archery kill? if the season was even open?

200 yards apart! really think inside the box! maybe hit by the same plane and fell into the freeay ant hit by a semi and land next to each other 

[chester]

were there signs that it was a rifle kill? or was it possible that the calf could have been a lost archery kill? if the season was even open?

200 yards apart! really think inside the box! maybe hit by the same plane and fell into the freeay ant hit by a semi and land next to each other 

He didnt say they were on the same day tho. Could have been two from the same herd at different times.

[the1rod]

were there signs that it was a rifle kill? or was it possible that the calf could have been a lost archery kill? if the season was even open?

200 yards apart! really think inside the box! maybe hit by the same plane and fell into the freeay ant hit by a semi and land next to each other 

oh im sorry i didnt realize it was so *censored*ing terrible to ask for a little more information to see if there was a possibility that the world isnt a *censored* hole and everyone is a poacher or a liar

[rose673]

If you were in Pacific county and hunting ducks I would be willing to bet that the bull was a rifle kill that the hunter didn't find.  Can't help you with the calf but if you are hunting ducks in a pretty popular area off the highway than that is the case with the bull. 

[danderson]

is there a train track in this area ?

[Bigbuckoholic]

U call random check points a waste of time and money? But do u realize how many poachers it actually does stop? My hunting group personally watched 4 Mexicans jump out of a landscaping truck and start blasting at a doe with their rifles. During modern elk season. If they had more checkpoints up there that never woulds happened. Yeah it sucks but poaching has and will always be a big part of the lack of animals in this state so to speak. The only way we will ever fix that is to start reducing those check points so we can put up trail cams on every tree in the woods lol. Don't forget poacher season is open all year round. No baglimit shoot to kill. Or at least scare the piss out of