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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: NOCK NOCK on November 04, 2024, 07:06:39 PM

Title: Colockum elk shooting/poaching
Post by: NOCK NOCK on November 04, 2024, 07:06:39 PM: So I keep hearing \ seeing tiny bits of some wrongdoing during modern elk. Anyone know the story?
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Post by: 6haase6 on November 04, 2024, 07:13:11 PM: Heard of a guy killing like six elk and wounding two
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Post by: bornhunter on November 04, 2024, 09:25:59 PM: Must be what jhouckwsu was talking about in another thread. Would like to know the details.
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Post by: Bone collector 13 on November 04, 2024, 09:32:25 PM: Seems to happen every year on some type of scale. Remember a few years ago a guy getting busted for shooting a few cow elk and a buck deer
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Post by: High Climber on November 04, 2024, 11:01:52 PM: There were multiple big bulls shot with rifles during archery season, just the heads were removed. Saw one personally and heard of a few more in other areas of the colockum
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Post by: Rainier10 on November 04, 2024, 11:14:45 PM: I didn’t hear about anything in my neck of the woods
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Post by: fireguy459 on November 05, 2024, 05:45:30 PM: I heard of 8 cows and a small bull shot by one guy. Don’t know where or who.. I just heard it happened from a reliable source. Terrible!!!
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Post by: 6haase6 on November 05, 2024, 06:23:15 PM: The one I heard about he told the game warden he thought he was missing but also animals dead or wounded he didn’t have tags for. Not sure what animals were hit. The game warden was offering meat to people if they wanted to pack it.
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Post by: DeerSkin on November 05, 2024, 08:01:57 PM: Quote from: Bone collector 13 on November 04, 2024, 09:32:25 PM
Seems to happen every year on some type of scale. Remember a few years ago a guy getting busted for shooting a few cow elk and a buck deer

I believe this was the buck you are referring to, about 10 years ago now