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Big Game Hunting => Wolves => Topic started by: PAW66 on November 12, 2013, 06:38:42 PM

Title: Wolf Kill?
Post by: PAW66 on November 12, 2013, 06:38:42 PM: Found this kill on the Nile. Was told it was a wolf kill. What do you folks think?
Title: Re: Wolf Kill?
Post by: gasman on November 12, 2013, 07:05:18 PM: Looks like an elk someone poached to me.

Skinned, boned out and left for the critters :dunno:
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Post by: Widgeondeke on November 12, 2013, 07:05:36 PM: Who told ya that? Surely not WDFW
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Post by: trophyhunt on November 12, 2013, 07:07:17 PM: Quote from: gasman on November 12, 2013, 07:05:18 PM
Looks like an elk someone poached to me.

Skinned, boned out and left for the critters :dunno:
i would agree before I thought a critter kill, but I'm far from an expert!
Title: Re: Wolf Kill?
Post by: gasman on November 12, 2013, 07:09:09 PM: Quote from: trophyhunt on November 12, 2013, 07:07:17 PM
Quote from: gasman on November 12, 2013, 07:05:18 PM
Looks like an elk someone poached to me.

Skinned, boned out and left for the critters :dunno:
i would agree before I thought a critter kill, but I'm far from an expert!

me neither and it looks like it was skinned and the legs are missing but the rest of the skeleton is there.
Title: Re: Wolf Kill?
Post by: Hunterman on November 12, 2013, 07:11:13 PM: That's no more a wolf kill than a road kill. Looks like someone dumped an elk carcass to me. How many wolves skin and leave bones like that.

Hunterman(Tony)
Title: Re: Wolf Kill?
Post by: PAW66 on November 12, 2013, 07:41:57 PM: Could have been poached; but was located 500 yards off a road, a mile up from a locked gate. Would have been some work.
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Post by: gasman on November 12, 2013, 07:45:14 PM: Quote from: PAW66 on November 12, 2013, 07:41:57 PM
Could have been poached; but was located 500 yards off a road, a mile up from a locked gate. Would have been some work.

UNLESS they left the sex organ attached to a rear hind leg :dunno:

If they didn't tag the animal and just packed out the meat, then I would call it poached.
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Post by: Timberstalker on November 12, 2013, 08:12:01 PM: Is that a cow head in the picture? Sure looks like it. Hey could have boned the meat out and left the sex organ to the leg. Nothing there indicates a poaching. Unless I am missing something in the picture.
Title: Re: Wolf Kill?
Post by: PAW66 on November 12, 2013, 08:15:27 PM: It was a cow/calf. Found during rifle season, three days before cow season.
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Post by: Timberstalker on November 12, 2013, 08:16:48 PM: So it could have been a muzzy or an archery guy?
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Post by: villageidiot on November 12, 2013, 08:55:02 PM: No telling for sure what killed this animal but wolves eat the ribs like candy. The ribs are still there even though I'd like to blame wolves because they get excused for many animals they do actually kill. Wolves didn't even eat on this or the ribs would be gone down to the backbone. Ravens, eagles and coyotes likely cleaned this up.
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Post by: AspenBud on November 13, 2013, 07:24:14 AM: At the risk of sounding condescending, I try to avoid kill sites in the woods. Walking up to one is a sure fire way to increase your odds of having a nasty encounter with any number of predators.
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Post by: sirmissalot on November 13, 2013, 07:29:13 AM: I've seen cat kills where it had skinned the animal, but not that well. Looks human to me, then the coyotes cleaned it up.
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Post by: Elkrunner on November 13, 2013, 08:05:21 AM: It looks to me that somone quartered the elk and left the rest. The birds picked the carcass clean. Its skinned as part of the quatering process. :twocents:
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Post by: Fowlweather25 on November 13, 2013, 08:10:38 AM: :yeah:hind quarters are cleanly cut from the pelvis and shoulders are missing. Skinned very neatly, unlike a cat. Either poached or muzzy/archery. Definitley not an animal kill. :twocents:
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Post by: 7mmfan on November 13, 2013, 08:31:22 AM: Pretty much exactly what my kill site looked like when I walked away from it this year. :dunno:
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Post by: buckfvr on November 13, 2013, 08:52:40 AM: SOme of you guys sound like wdfw drones.......making it a crime scene as your personal default. Carcass has to be left somewhere, why pack it out if you dont need to. I know I would not pack that out just because. :twocents:
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Post by: mountainman on November 13, 2013, 08:59:10 AM: Just a boned out carcass...simple as that.
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Post by: Buzz2401 on November 13, 2013, 07:51:54 PM: I'd bet $1000 bucks that was a archery kill. I find 2-3 elk a year with the arrow still in them.
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Post by: Timberstalker on November 13, 2013, 08:01:05 PM: Quote from: Buzz2401 on November 13, 2013, 07:51:54 PM
I'd bet $1000 bucks that was a archery kill. I find 2-3 elk a year with the arrow still in them.
The fact that you find lost animals has no relevance in this thread. Anyone with any sense knows this animal was killed by a hunter and boned out. No predator would leave an elk like this.
Title: Re: Wolf Kill?
Post by: cougarbart on November 14, 2013, 11:02:05 AM: well for one I can give evidence and guess on several things! the legs are usually dragged out the socket so not seeing legs is not unusual! the ribs are not eaten so probably rules out wolves! its not covered or looks like it has been so I would probably rule out cougar! the hide looking like it was skinned is a big flag that it a bear has eaten on it! bears will peel the skin like it was skinned with a buck knife! so that leads me to believe someone deboned the meat and did a good job, or it was one that wasn't found! it amazes me the way people yell poached!
Title: Re: Wolf Kill?
Post by: Brad Harshman on November 15, 2013, 10:25:28 PM: HUMAN.
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Post by: DeArBuCK4me on November 20, 2013, 10:11:45 AM: It looks like a two legged beast got it.....Human
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Post by: Huntboy on November 20, 2013, 10:46:07 AM: Quote from: mountainman on November 13, 2013, 08:59:10 AM
Just a boned out carcass...simple as that.

:yeah:
Title: Re: Wolf Kill?
Post by: dlaw on November 21, 2013, 01:47:48 PM: Cleanest wolf kill I have ever seen. Likely someone dumped it there after punching their tag.