ARROWHNTR
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So I have grown up in Utah and seen some people do some pretty stupid stuff while hunting, but most of my outta state hunting has been archery and I have never really seen to much negative in the other states I have hunted and honestly part of me thought that it was just a Utah thing.
So last weekend I decided to go try and fill the freezer in Idaho on the late muzzeloader hunt, I hunted the archery season and never conected with a bull but I had a tag and got an invite so I figured what the heck.
Friday night we pulled into the hunting unit about 45 mins before dark and headed up to try and glass a few elk before dark. On the way up the dirt road we were passed by like 5 trucks and wheelers doing mock40. My father in law told me there must be elk out in the fields. Not knowing what he ment by that we drove up onto a hill overlooking a big ag field. As we looked out in it there were about 50 head of elk in the middle. As I glassed the edges of the field there was a guy or two or three on every fence line, and trucks parked at the corners of all the filds. Just then I noticed a truck comming into the field, and the elk started to get nervous. For the next 30 to 40 mins I watched them chase the elk with the truck from one side of the fild to the other, every time they got them close to the fence they would jump out and shoot two or three times, then jump back in the truck and chase them back to the other side. Not to mention everytime they got close enough for the guys on the fence to shoot they did too. I saw at least 3 cows packing legs or gut shot as it got too dark to see and the elk were still running back and forth and the shots still ringing out, not one elk had went down.
Sitting there in shock at what I had just seen and the complete lack of respect for the animals shown by those so called hunters I was very please to see the local game warden had the truck from the field stopped in town, hopefully they got citations not sure how much of what they did was technically illigal and I know its hard to right citations for Unethical behavior but hopefully they got them for harrassing wildlife with a vehicle or somthing.
Sorry for the long post I just needed to vent!
So last weekend I decided to go try and fill the freezer in Idaho on the late muzzeloader hunt, I hunted the archery season and never conected with a bull but I had a tag and got an invite so I figured what the heck.
Friday night we pulled into the hunting unit about 45 mins before dark and headed up to try and glass a few elk before dark. On the way up the dirt road we were passed by like 5 trucks and wheelers doing mock40. My father in law told me there must be elk out in the fields. Not knowing what he ment by that we drove up onto a hill overlooking a big ag field. As we looked out in it there were about 50 head of elk in the middle. As I glassed the edges of the field there was a guy or two or three on every fence line, and trucks parked at the corners of all the filds. Just then I noticed a truck comming into the field, and the elk started to get nervous. For the next 30 to 40 mins I watched them chase the elk with the truck from one side of the fild to the other, every time they got them close to the fence they would jump out and shoot two or three times, then jump back in the truck and chase them back to the other side. Not to mention everytime they got close enough for the guys on the fence to shoot they did too. I saw at least 3 cows packing legs or gut shot as it got too dark to see and the elk were still running back and forth and the shots still ringing out, not one elk had went down.
Sitting there in shock at what I had just seen and the complete lack of respect for the animals shown by those so called hunters I was very please to see the local game warden had the truck from the field stopped in town, hopefully they got citations not sure how much of what they did was technically illigal and I know its hard to right citations for Unethical behavior but hopefully they got them for harrassing wildlife with a vehicle or somthing.
Sorry for the long post I just needed to vent!
