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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: 509Spikey on October 27, 2014, 08:33:43 PM

Title: Poachers suck
Post by: 509Spikey on October 27, 2014, 08:33:43 PM: Found him this evening about 100 yds from my property, dumped off edge of road. I've really been enjoying watching the deer this year on my trail cam. Hope he wasn't one of "mine".

Weird thing was... I assumed when I noticed his horns missing, it was cut and dry... poacher. After inspecting closer, I saw the clean cut up his abdomin to his rib cage.

So, did they try to gut and found something nasty? Did they try to gut and got scared off? What were they thinking???? Any guesses?

Either way... it was only a couple days old at the most. He was taken out of season for sure. And yes, I contacted WDFW, not that anything will come of it.
Title: Re: Poachers suck
Post by: HunterStrait on October 27, 2014, 09:05:09 PM: This is the issue with WDFW.
When you report stuff like this to them they don't to much about it.
Instead they put more restrictions on us hunters :bash:
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Post by: pashok23 on October 27, 2014, 10:18:28 PM: They were probably trying to get their bullet out.Thats the only thing i can think of.
Stupid poachers. :mor:
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Post by: KFhunter on October 27, 2014, 10:26:04 PM: It's just road kill
Title: Re: Poachers suck
Post by: 509Spikey on October 27, 2014, 10:33:59 PM: That was my first thought. Figured a doe got hit, but the bullet hole solved that one.
Rediculous tho!!! Was not a big deer by any means
Title: Re: Poachers suck
Post by: _TONY_ on October 28, 2014, 01:08:32 AM: I'm with kfhunter.... Looks like road kill in your pics.
Title: Re: Poachers suck
Post by: 509Spikey on October 28, 2014, 06:13:53 AM: ...
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Post by: bhawley76 on October 28, 2014, 06:43:14 AM: Road kill with horns around here don't last long. If you do hit a deer you should be able to try and salvage what you can if that was the case. I hate to see them just end up coyote bait.
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Post by: MtnMuley on October 28, 2014, 07:07:52 AM: Doesn't even look like a buck. Never seen a set of horns cut off with that kind of cut to the top of the head. :dunno: I say roadkill as well.
Title: Re: Poachers suck
Post by: irishevox on October 28, 2014, 08:34:29 AM: looks like a road kill for sure
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Post by: elkoholic1 on October 28, 2014, 08:36:54 AM: :stup:
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Post by: bowhunterwa87 on October 28, 2014, 09:07:57 AM: They could have split it open so the coyotes have easy access and it gets tore up faster
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Post by: Alchase on October 28, 2014, 12:03:25 PM: sometimes the WDFW will cut the antlers off bucks that have been road killed, just like that.
Looks like coyotes have already been at it as well.
Title: Re: Poachers suck
Post by: KFhunter on October 28, 2014, 01:55:27 PM: the deer was drug for a goodly ways skidding it's head along the pavement grinding it flat like that.

the impact builds enough pressure it often splits the belly open as if it were cut open, the "bullet hole" could be any number of objects impaling the deer as it was balled up in someones undercarriage.

the skull was sanded off by the blacktop.
Title: Re: Poachers suck
Post by: dscubame on October 28, 2014, 06:35:29 PM: Quote from: Alchase on October 28, 2014, 12:03:25 PM
sometimes the WDFW will cut the antlers off bucks that have been road killed, just like that.
Looks like coyotes have already been at it as well.

Bingo
Title: Re: Poachers suck
Post by: JimmyHoffa on October 28, 2014, 06:42:11 PM: Quote from: Alchase on October 28, 2014, 12:03:25 PM
sometimes the WDFW will cut the antlers off bucks that have been road killed, just like that.
Looks like coyotes have already been at it as well.
yeah, there's a spot I drive past that I think is the game warden deer dump. Drove by it yesterday and there were four deer laying there. I've seen deer dumped there over the years, and the first time I saw one thought it could've been poached. Had a bullet hole and antlers cut off. Then not long after there was another. So I add to the pile, and cruise by slowly now in case of coyotes.
Title: Re: Poachers suck
Post by: Jonathan_S on October 28, 2014, 06:44:09 PM: Hannibal Lecter :dunno:

Very mangled but that looks more like a doe than a buck to me. Just the shape of the neck and head.
Title: Re: Poachers suck
Post by: tgomez on October 29, 2014, 07:36:33 AM: Don't think someone would cut the skull of a doe fellas, but this is just my :twocents:. Wonder if he jumped a fence and started to gut himself? Scene it happen on hit deer before. Shot off the road, antlers removed. Nature waste nothing though, predators will turn to a bone pile within days! Their will always be poachers and trespassers, sucks but is part of hunting now. That's what game wardens are for, and the poaching hotline. :dunno:
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Post by: C-Money on October 29, 2014, 07:52:13 AM: Could be just as easy what the OP said it was.... a poacher.
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Post by: skeeter 20i on October 29, 2014, 01:47:07 PM: There's a spot over in Spangle where road kill gets dumped off and they cut the antlers off just like in the picture.