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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: jrebel on September 17, 2014, 06:52:03 PM

Title: Interesting find while buthering my Cow.
Post by: jrebel on September 17, 2014, 06:52:03 PM: Butchered my cow elk today and found that she had been shot with a Rifle. Her left hip was fractured and there were bullet fragments in both her left and right front shoulders. The meat was all good with the exception of a small (quarter sized piece in the front shoulder where lead fragments were found. The bone was not healed / healing so I have to believe this happened fairly recently. This was not last years rifle / muzzy cow elk permit hunters.....this was the work of a poacher.

She was a very big and healthy cow....I am glad I killed and put her out of her misery. I can't imagine walking on that broken hip was comfortable.

I hate poachers.
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Post by: bobcat on September 17, 2014, 07:03:20 PM: Glad you put her out of her misery. Couldn't it have been a Yakama member who shot her? I believe their cow season is August 1 to December 31.
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Post by: PlateauNDN on September 17, 2014, 07:09:06 PM: Our season is sept. 1 to December 31 for cows/does actually. Do you mind sharing general area?
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Post by: bobcat on September 17, 2014, 07:24:49 PM: Oh yeah, that's what I meant to say!
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Post by: jrebel on September 17, 2014, 07:41:57 PM: 336 Taneum unit.
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Post by: go4steelhd on September 17, 2014, 08:44:23 PM: I shot a nice buck a few years ago and he had 15 to 20 pellets from a shot gun in his face and neck. Very sad what some people do :bash:
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Post by: CAMPMEAT on September 17, 2014, 08:52:43 PM: We shot a bull up Blue Creek on Blewitt Pass. It had been stuck with an arrow and had a hard ball of tissue or something around the broad head. The shaft was unscrewed from the broadhead.....weird.
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Post by: kirkl on September 17, 2014, 08:56:39 PM: Those da mn injuns. Specially the ones that love oregon football :) jk
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Post by: ctwiggs1 on September 18, 2014, 07:49:51 AM: Sometimes bad shots happen. It really sucks, and I'm sure whoever put that bullet in her felt terrible. It makes me feel better about the one buck that I've lost to know that you killed this cow. Maybe someone killed that buck and was able to keep the meat.
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Post by: RadSav on September 18, 2014, 08:05:12 AM: But I thought only archery hunters wounded animals. I bet it was one of those lead tipped broadheads or something :tung:
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Post by: xXLojackXx on September 18, 2014, 09:24:38 AM: Quote from: RadSav on September 18, 2014, 08:05:12 AM
But I thought only archery hunters wounded animals. I bet it was one of those lead tipped broadheads or something :tung:

Exactly. One of those 225gr poly tipped broadheads. All rifle hunters know that only archery hunters wound animals.
Title: Re: Interesting find while buthering my Cow.
Post by: jrebel on September 18, 2014, 10:28:40 AM: Well unless it was a native american hunter it had to be a poacher. I am waiting for my partners pics as we notice a wound in the hide that we marked up to when she fell down the hill....but now I think it was a bullet hole / cut. I want to see of it was in the impact side. If so the cow was shot in the butt.....breaking the hip exiting and cutting the hide with bullet fragments and reentering the shoulder. The cut in the hide was still open and not healed which means it had to be only a wek or so old.
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Post by: RadSav on September 18, 2014, 10:37:25 AM: Is there a Master Hunter or Disabled Hunter cow hunt close to there? I know both groups get a cow hunt starting in August. I'm just not up to date on where those hunts are.
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Post by: jrebel on September 18, 2014, 10:46:42 AM: Quote from: RadSav on September 18, 2014, 10:37:25 AM
Is there a Master Hunter or Disabled Hunter cow hunt close to there? I know both groups get a cow hunt starting in August. I'm just not up to date on where those hunts are.

I hope a master hunter didn't Texas heart shoot a cow....but now that you mention it there has been master hunter cow permits in there before. Not sure if they still are though. Not sure about dissaed????it is steep and deep so I wouldn't imagine so.
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Post by: RadSav on September 18, 2014, 11:12:01 AM: I know more than one Master Hunter (name always makes me laugh) that struggled mightily to pass the offhand shooting test. All but one borrowed a 20" barreled 257 Bob from me to pass it.
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Post by: bobcat on September 18, 2014, 11:19:18 AM: Could be elk area 3911.
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Post by: RadSav on September 18, 2014, 11:23:10 AM: What is "Region 3"?
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Post by: ctwiggs1 on September 18, 2014, 01:12:15 PM: Quote from: RadSav on September 18, 2014, 11:12:01 AM
I know more than one Master Hunter (name always makes me laugh) that struggled mightily to pass the offhand shooting test. All but one borrowed a 20" barreled 257 Bob from me to pass it.

That's the strangest thing to me. I always saw people struggle with that and I never understood it. Different bodies I suppose.