Tri,
I'll bite because I don't have much going on right now. This is your question:
"So I ask yall what is more damaging to wildlife and heard management, I guy that puts down a wounded elk for a friend and only one tag is used on one animal, OR TWO IDIOTS STABBING MULTIPLE ANIMALS TO DEATH ON ONE TAG UNTIL THEY CAN GET ONE THEY CAN RECOVER".
Now the vide you described was archery hunting or are they actually "TWO IDIOTS STABBING MULTIPLE ANIMALS TO DEATH". From your statement it would appear that you don't like archery hunting and or you don't understand it. You do realize there is a difference between archery hunting and "STABBING" animals?
Again from your post you say "we are pretty sure the goat died an agonizing death over several days". You are "pretty sure" but that is an assumption. You don' know for sure.
Also, in the Utah Poaching thread there is a witness that two bulls were shot and killed and one person used another's tag to tag the bigger of the two bulls.
Now to your question...To me it is worse to have multiple animals die for one tag. To me, it would be hard to argue the other way.
However, on the Utah thread you have two stories. One wherein a witness says these clowns shot two bulls and never looked for the first because they heard about a bigger bull. The claim is that the hunter never even went to the area to see if he hit the bull. He sent his kid. Is that reasonable for the tag holder to personally not even follow up on his shot? The probable cause statement posted says they shot two bulls with one tag, lied and left one bull to rot. The PC statement also reports that "Late in the evening of 9/15/2014, and after shooting hours had ended, members of another witness' hunting party heard various shots fired." So it sounds like two bulls were killed by two guys with one tag with the second bull being shot after shooting hours. Then there is the statement form a mysterious person who says this was a mercy killing.
So, which is worse? A single tag holder hitting an animal that might die and then deciding to take a different animal or a two guys who use the same tag to kill two animals?
I have been put in a position where I had to put big game animals down (both deer and elk) in Utah. In each instance, I called the Utah Highway Patrol (they dispatch for the Utah Game and Fish officers), told them where I was, the situation I had and the course of action I was planning to take. I then put the animals down. I have been asked to meet with game wardens following these incidents. I took them to the location, explained the situation, explained my actions and that was the end of it.
That is, in my opinion, is how the situation should have been handled. Instead they chose to lie and try to cover up that the guy who killed the elk didn't have the tag.
By the way...
http://forums.bowsite.com/tf/bgforums/thread.cfm?threadid=446917&messages=13&forum=5
I need to get the location of this bull so I can make sure he doesn't have an "agonizing death over several days". Do you think I should post pictures of my kill on Instagram and lie to investigators about my mercy killing when confronted?