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Title: Poached buck
Post by: boneaddict on November 16, 2008, 04:47:37 PM: I was driving down the road and I spotted this buck dead out on the hillside about 150 yards across the ravine. I was pissed. I had been following a track that I suspected was a poacher but I suppose it could have been another photographer, but I doubted it. I got out, fixed my lens, took a couple pics then sat there looking at him through the binos.
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Title: Re: Poached buck
Post by: boneaddict on November 16, 2008, 04:50:08 PM: Did I see his war twitch. I grunted, yelled, got back in the truck, moved it ahead, got out, got another camera angle still NOTHING
I must have been seeing things. I was trying to figure out what to do. It was laying in plain site. Do I photgraph it, gather evidence what??? (https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv47%2Fboneaddict%2Fpb2.jpg&hash=ca533240544c4775070724ad482cc4b024f24e51)
Title: Re: Poached buck
Post by: Huntbear on November 16, 2008, 04:50:37 PM: That really P!sses me off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(>: That buck died needlessly!!!!!!

Bone, that is a great photo, and a great way to honor a buck killed by an idiot.

I hope you have called the law, so they can do a proper investigation.
Title: Re: Poached buck
Post by: boneaddict on November 16, 2008, 04:51:48 PM: I got into my truck then moved ahead. On the other side of the bush there was a doe sitting at full attention. NOW WAIT A MINUTE There is no way she is going to be sitting next to a dead buck. I grabbed a pair of sheds and slammed them together......WELL YOU LITTLE rascal. She plum had him tired out.
I thought he was dead. YAY!!!!!!!!!!
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Title: Re: Poached buck
Post by: agchawk on November 16, 2008, 04:54:07 PM: LMAO!!!

I was just going to post something about the damn poachers and "what a waste of a great lookin' buck"!

I was wondering why his eyes were closed. I've harvested a good number of bucks but had never had one close his eyes unless they were wounded and wandered off and layed down to expire.

Great photos though!!! THANKS
Title: Re: Poached buck
Post by: boneaddict on November 16, 2008, 04:54:36 PM: I hear ya hunt. I WAS PISSED. I stumble onto several carcasses per year. Anyway, then I couldn't get him to look at me. That FART! So I drive down and get right under him and up the hill I go. I should have changed cameras though. I came out about 10 feet from him and there he was. THEN GONE! :)
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Title: Re: Poached buck
Post by: bow4elk on November 16, 2008, 04:54:54 PM: you could see his eye shut...ALIVE buck!! Cool photos!
Title: Re: Poached buck
Post by: Huntbear on November 16, 2008, 04:58:16 PM: :yike: :yike: :yike:

ok, so now i sit here with egg on my face, but grateful that buck is still alive and well, if not a bit worse for wear :chuckle:
Title: Re: Poached buck
Post by: bobcat on November 16, 2008, 05:22:01 PM: Love the photos. Well done! That would have been something to see.
Title: Re: Poached buck
Post by: X-Force on November 16, 2008, 05:27:56 PM: Poor guy was tuckered out from chasing the does around. great shots Bone.
Title: Re: Poached buck
Post by: Rick on November 16, 2008, 05:39:50 PM: He wasn't dead so it really doesn't matter now,but how exactly could you tell he was killed by a poacher from 150yds? :dunno:
Title: Re: Poached buck
Post by: Bearhunter on November 16, 2008, 05:59:58 PM: Havent seen to many dead with there eyes closed :chuckle:
Title: Re: Poached buck
Post by: boneaddict on November 16, 2008, 06:13:54 PM: That was speculation Rick. he was laying in a funny spot out in the open, right where someone could have got him etc. I could not raise him. I mean sitting there with the stereo cranked banging on a drum with Rhiana "disturbia", slamming car doors, whistling, honked horn etc, and nothing. I thought it was strange. Course the doe didn;t get up and move either, but at least she was looking at me. It took me getting within 10 feet of him to make him WAKE UP.
Title: Re: Poached buck
Post by: MuleySniper on November 16, 2008, 06:20:10 PM: I'm surprised that when you played "disturbia" he didn't run off to the next county with his horns stuffed in his ears! :chuckle:
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Post by: bobcat on November 16, 2008, 06:27:40 PM: I know just how he felt. Women do that to ya sometimes. ;)
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Post by: coonhound on November 16, 2008, 06:32:25 PM: Not in my neck of the woods...a guy could only hope. :'(
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Post by: Dameion on November 16, 2008, 06:36:28 PM: Great photos and story, that is classic
Title: Re: Poached buck
Post by: boneaddict on November 16, 2008, 07:20:29 PM: I am about to post another series of photos. Bones Bucks I. I spotted the guy featured in that series and was headed to get closer when I ran into sleepy head here. Funny thing is they are about identical twins.
Title: Re: Poached buck
Post by: bucklucky on November 16, 2008, 08:56:51 PM: Awesome pics! That eye that was closed caught my attention, I was thinking he was just plain tuckered :) Poor little guy :)
Title: Re: Poached buck
Post by: bankwalker on November 17, 2008, 09:01:06 AM: i seen a couple bull elk once laying like that then they got up once i got within 50yds of them to see if they were really dead. i didnt know that elk and deer slept like that sence i had never seen that anywhere.
Title: Re: Poached buck
Post by: DOUBLELUNG on November 17, 2008, 11:33:35 AM: Glad he's alive. If you ever DO come across a fresh shot and left mature buck or bull during closed season, be sure to call law enforcement ASAP - be diligent, and make sure you speak to an officer. If a dispatcher tells you they'll have an officer call you, tell them if you don't get that call within 10 minutes you will be calling back every 10 minutes until you DO speak to an officer. For WDFW, call the WA State Patrol.
VERY standard M.O. for scum of the earth to shoot the buck or bull and walk or drive away, only to come back for only the head after midnight. Always sweet when officers can set up on a scene like that and catch them in the act. Worth 10 points for you if an arrest is made.
Title: Re: Poached buck
Post by: saylean on November 17, 2008, 11:37:51 AM: :chuckle: :chuckle:

Nice to know he was just recovering from all the fun.
Title: Re: Poached buck
Post by: byrdman on November 17, 2008, 08:35:12 PM: Awesome post!

The opportunity to see things like that is one of the many reasons I love getting into the woods.
I have never seen a deer actually asleep. Often bedded but never zonked out like that.
Title: Re: Poached buck
Post by: Huntbear on November 18, 2008, 05:57:29 AM: Quote from: coonhound on November 16, 2008, 06:32:25 PM
Not in my neck of the woods...a guy could only hope. :'(

for the deer or the women?????

:chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: :IBCOOL:
Title: Re: Poached buck
Post by: Skyvalhunter on November 18, 2008, 06:05:04 AM: Bone you should have walked up and petted the little fella!! :chuckle: I am sure he would have let you.
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Post by: deaddog on November 18, 2008, 08:38:14 AM: reminds me of years past, party all night, chasing girls, passout! wake up, do it again. Great pics
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Post by: Hornseeker on November 18, 2008, 11:40:02 AM: Too Cool!
Title: Re: Poached buck
Post by: firefighter4607 on November 18, 2008, 11:52:21 AM: awsome pictures. I thought that he was dead, I didn't even notice the eye lids where closed
Title: Re: Poached buck
Post by: M_ray on November 18, 2008, 12:21:23 PM: Cool series of pics Bone! Glad he's ok and non the worse for the wear! Hey after all the same thing you married guy's do once a year too! :chuckle:
Title: Re: Poached buck
Post by: tmike on November 18, 2008, 12:29:54 PM: I saw that for the first time this year in Montana. I was putting a sneak on a big buck who was sleeping. His head would bob up and down and the his rack would totally disappear for a few minutes then raise up. I looked below the patch he was bedded in and there was a 3 pt totally sprawled out like the buck in your picture. I assumed he had been killed in a fight or something. He looked like a dog laying there. After about 20 minutes he got up and stretched. Cool pictures.
Title: Re: Poached buck
Post by: LongTatLaw on November 18, 2008, 12:54:56 PM: Nicely done!
Title: Re: Poached buck
Post by: Intruder on November 18, 2008, 02:33:00 PM: That's hilarious.
Title: Re: Poached buck
Post by: boneaddict on November 22, 2008, 02:10:26 PM: It sure fooled me. I didn't notice the eye detail. All I saw was red.... >:( :chuckle:
Title: Re: Poached buck
Post by: Quick Draw on November 23, 2008, 01:49:47 PM: That is a great looking buck, glad no one poached him. I thought something was odd about the pictures.
Great shots though.
Quick Draw