Has This Ever Happened???

muleyman

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A while back I was archery hunting mule deer here in Eastern Oregon. The 4th day I came across a nice 4X4. 40 yards broadside. I shot, he jumped at the string and hit him in the butt. I tracked him for two days when I finally him. Spoiled I decided to cut the head off, tag him and keep the horns.

The head stunk bad so I put him under a tree about 100 yards from camp. That night our horses started going wild, only to find out the next morning that a bear came and took the head. ( Traks found )

The next year a family member came across a hunter in the same area. They started talking about things and my buck came up in conversation. The guy while scounting a month prior found my rack about 3/4 mile from camp. The guy came back to camp, I showed him a picture of the buck and sure enough it was the same buck. He told me I could come to him house and pick it up, but the problem is he lives about 9 hours from me.

Has a "stolen animal" situation ever happened to you or anyone you know???

muleyman
 
Doesn't sound like he actually stole it. He did say that you could take it off his hands if you came to pick it up, no? Coincidentally, a person that frequents the area that I lost my buck in told me that if he found my buck he would call me. I wonder if that will ever happen.
 
The bear stole it. We have had them eat our deer before. In the yellostone country the grizz will get the elk before you can gut them.
 
Last year (2004) a friend shot a blacktail here in Cali. That night as he slept in the back of his truck, with a canopy, TWICE a bear tried to steal his buck. The buck was on the ground under the tailgate. There were no large trees nearby. He finally got up and tied the buck to the bumper, but the bear never returned. Not much sleep that night!

Steve
 
Had a little grizz action while trying to pack out my moose. If had been an older bear, we would have lost the encounter. The young bear wasn't sure of himself yet.
 
I had a grizz take a stone's ram that I shot in northern B.C. a couple of years ago. My dad and I had deboned the meat and caped the head out. Meat, horns and cape were concealed in some rocks about 50 yards from camp, with the horns tied to a rock. The bear took it all while we were sleeping. We tracked the bear for a few hundred yards and amazingly recovered the horns. I guess he'd gotten tired of packing them and had buried them in some moss and other brush. We decided to let him keep the cape and meat when his trail headed into some thick willows at the edge of the alpine. I'm not too big on close encounters of the Grizzly kind!

bcmulie
 

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