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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: JWBINX on January 03, 2015, 05:41:13 PM

Title: Poached elk
Post by: JWBINX on January 03, 2015, 05:41:13 PM: A cow elk was shot and left to rot at mile post 36 today on hwy 410 today, if anybody knows
anything about this, please let Bruce Richards in Enumclaw know.
Pretty sad deal for sure. >:(
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Post by: WapitiTalk1 on January 03, 2015, 06:10:08 PM: Piece of slime. Hope somebody turns this loser in.
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Post by: teanawayslayer on January 04, 2015, 06:45:58 AM: Someone did the same thing up the 1900 in little naches durning our muzzy hunt. Shot and let lay. :bash:
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Post by: notellumcreek on January 04, 2015, 08:14:11 AM: Hard to believe with all the traffic around driving to and from crystal mtn. that no one else was on the road to witness this? What time?

Could it have been hit and suffering and someone was decent enough to put it out of its misery?
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Post by: trophyhunt on January 04, 2015, 01:38:42 PM: Quote from: notellumcreek on January 04, 2015, 08:14:11 AM
Hard to believe with all the traffic around driving to and from crystal mtn. that no one else was on the road to witness this? What time?

Could it have been hit and suffering and someone was decent enough to put it out of its misery?
I was wondering myself if it could have been hit by a car? I've seen them before on the side of the road up there.
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Post by: JWBINX on January 04, 2015, 02:06:21 PM: We were wondering the same thing this morning on the the way to crystal mtn. I went over to Bruce Richards
house yesterday to let him know about it. It was dark on the way up this am however on the way down today
it was still there minus at least 1 hind quarter?
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Post by: notellumcreek on January 04, 2015, 03:34:07 PM: Did you see a bullet hole on the thing?
I haven't been to town since we started the holidays its been so damn busy up here at the mtn. I will check it out if it is still there tomorrow... I think MP 36 is near where rosscrazyelk saw a cougar on some road kill last year as well.
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Post by: duckmen1 on January 04, 2015, 03:55:06 PM: I saw a dead elk yesterday in a clearcut up there. Real open new cut on downhill side. Was this the one you were referring to. I was gonna stop on the way home and investigate it but it got dark.
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Post by: JWBINX on January 04, 2015, 03:55:56 PM: I spoke with 3 Enumclaw guys who went done to the cow and they said it had a bullet hole in the body? but not a put out of misery
shot. It's on the left side the hwy coming down the mtn just after the guard rail ends at mile post 36, ravens are on it. Maybe I should go coyote hunting on the way up to Crystal??
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Post by: duckmen1 on January 04, 2015, 04:08:46 PM: That's the one I saw. Going up I saw it facing parallel to road. Coming down it was a 90 degree turn facing straight away. Wasn't sure if it was shot or hit by a car and I had accidentally had only tennis shoes on due to grabbing wrong boots that didn't fit me. So didn't stop to check it out. It had Ravens on it coming down the highway at dusk.
This is why our elk numbers are dropping.
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Post by: duckmen1 on January 04, 2015, 04:18:01 PM: Hope someone has called it in.
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Post by: buglin4bulls on January 04, 2015, 04:39:03 PM: I saw the elk yesterday morning early, and reported it via the online poaching webpage since the wdfw office is closed weekends. I also called 911 and reported it. It does indeed have a perfect bullet hole entering the front right shoulder of the cow elk. We were down on the elk kill when a man pulled over and said he would run to Bruce's house to let him know. (possibly JWBINX) Me and two buddies hung out till the game warden got there. He did some investigating near the road for a casing and said there was not much he could do about the elk with a clean pass through and no bullet to find. He also informed me he would take the hind quarters to a wdfw cougar bait station where they trap cougars and collar them to track them and learn about them, so the animal would not go to complete waste. Its a shame people do that and waste such valuable meat that would provide food for many families.
Title: Re: Poached elk
Post by: JWBINX on January 04, 2015, 05:12:56 PM: That was me Buglin4bulls, thanks for hanging out till the warden showed up. Had to get Bruce out of
his jammies. Pretty lousy feelin that someone would waste a Elk. That meat is like gold in my book.
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Post by: luv2hunt on January 04, 2015, 05:16:52 PM: Quote from: buglin4bulls on January 04, 2015, 04:39:03 PM
I saw the elk yesterday morning early, and reported it via the online poaching webpage since the wdfw office is closed weekends. I also called 911 and reported it. It does indeed have a perfect bullet hole entering the front right shoulder of the cow elk. We were down on the elk kill when a man pulled over and said he would run to Bruce's house to let him know. (possibly JWBINX) Me and two buddies hung out till the game warden got there. He did some investigating near the road for a casing and said there was not much he could do about the elk with a clean pass through and no bullet to find. He also informed me he would take the hind quarters to a wdfw cougar bait station where they trap cougars and collar them to track them and learn about them, so the animal would not go to complete waste. Its a shame people do that and waste such valuable meat that would provide food for many families.

Here is a couple of pics you sent me buglin4bulls, hopefully they post. Good job guys getting the warden involved, this sh!ts gotta stop! !