wasted elk

doublehaul · Oct 11, 2009

Hi everyone, first post.
I've been hunting deer, waterfowl, upland etc. for close to 25 years. This year I finally got into elk hunting, no luck yet, but having the time of my life.
I was hunting elk in the Blacks Fork drainage a few days ago and found this elk, the head had been taken, but the field dress was...umm...somewhat lacking. I will withhold my opinion and see what you all have to say.

MTCOWBOY · Oct 11, 2009

Please tell you contacted FWP, DNRC, F&G whatever maybe the law in your area.

Wayne

tmbr_hntr · Oct 11, 2009

Pathetic. Before I looked at the pic I thought you may have been talking about a spoiled elk with the head cut off. This is just a lazy a$$ slob hunter. If you can't at least bone out an elk and pack the meat out then you have no business hunting elk.

shedfinder · Oct 11, 2009

I have seen stories here on monster muleys that someone will shoot an elk and it will run off. The hunter will try everything he can to find his elk and in some cases it may take up to a week or more to find where it went and by then the meat is spoiled. The hunter did nothing wrong in trying to find his elk and a lot of us agree that after you hit an animal you should do everything you can to follow up after the shot. Even if that means spending days trying to find the animal. This could be one of those cases where the hunter finially found his elk but the meat was to spoiled to save.

doublehaul · Oct 11, 2009

Yes I did, Utah DWR

doublehaul · Oct 11, 2009

LAST EDITED ON Oct-11-09 AT 06:19PM (MST)[p]LAST EDITED ON Oct-11-09 AT 06:18?PM (MST)

The meat was fine, it was frozen solid. I could have cut out some steaks myself when I found it. I had been there since before the opener, tuesday morning it was so cold my truck had trouble starting.

tmbr_hntr · Oct 11, 2009

LAST EDITED ON Oct-11-09 AT 06:03PM (MST)[p]Shedfinder, You looking at the same pic? They did take "some" meat. Just not very much. If it was spoiled they would not have cut the easy stuff off and left the rest IMHO.

shedfinder · Oct 11, 2009

I was just presenting one scenario of how this could have happened. From the picture I can tell the back straps were cut off. But on the hind quarters I cant tell if their cut out or chewed on. They might of started cutting on it, realized the meat was spoiled and left it. I do have to agree that it is a waste of an elk, and the DWR should have been contacted.

TagSouper · Oct 11, 2009

Yes to me it looks like the lazy slobs skinned it down to take the backstraps and other cuts they wanted. This is pathetic I hope you have reported it.

WARBIRDUM · Oct 11, 2009

Takes a real winner to only take the head and antlers off the mountain.
I can think of some choice words much better than slob hunters but can't post them on this site.

longshooter338 · Oct 11, 2009

+ 1 elkocd post#2

MTCOWBOY · Oct 11, 2009

Cleanest looking "chew" marks I have ever seen. I like the circle cutter these predators are carrying these days.

shedfinder · Oct 11, 2009

Since I was basically called an idiot for not looking at the picture close enough, did anyone notice there appears to be more of the elk in the upper right hand corner of the picture. Doublehaul, do you have anymore pictures of this elk?

ditchparrot · Oct 11, 2009

only one explanation, the wolves done it.

Roy · Oct 12, 2009

I don't think we are looking at a case of a spolied carcass, just some sloppy field butchering with a lot of wasted meat left behind. Definitely does not fall within the parameters of what can be packed out and what can be left behind.

Either lazy or inept or both. Typical.

UTROY
Proverbs 21:19 (why I hunt!)

doublehaul · Oct 12, 2009

The other parts are the gut pile. For some reason they gutted it and then just took the prime cuts and head, like they mean't to quarter it and then got tired and just said screw it. Nobody was coming back for it either, it had been there for a couple days. All I know is if I did a poacher style job like that, I would have trouble sleeping at night- seriously. It was a waste of a lot of meat. It makes us look bad and disrespects the animal and hunting in general. Rant over.
I just though it might be of some interest to this forum.
Going out for the rest of the season now (fingers crossed). If I get one it's all coming with me.

doublehaul · Oct 12, 2009

Shedfinder, I appreciate your input. When I found it I was trying to rationalize it as well, just couldn't.

LoveBigRacks · Oct 12, 2009

LAST EDITED ON Oct-12-09 AT 11:57AM (MST)[p]Losers....whoever did this, IMHO. They are not part of the group of sportsmen I want to be associated with.

I love eating elk meat and so much so that I probably would've taken some meat off of this one if I came across it. You can never have enough elk meat in the freezer unless you have enough for dinner every night of the year. I can't even imagine someone leaving that precious meat behind, an idiot AND a loser.

Roy,
Glad you took photos and reported it to the DWR, THANK YOU. Whoever did this deserves whatever punishment can be doled out.

Sorry, that was meant for doublehaul, not Roy.

LBR

silverstatehunter · Oct 12, 2009

Not that it matters but how far off the road was this? That is just disrespectful, and disgraceful. If you can't do the work than go hunt Coyotes.

hunter567 · Oct 12, 2009

I hope they get a ticket for wasting meat.

tabbyhntr · Oct 12, 2009

maybe it was a hunter alone who shot it and realized it was alot of work for one man, got lazy and didnt care to go back.. disrespectful to every hunter whose ever packed out an elk, disrespectful the elk to waste and rot. Personally i harvested a cow 1and a half in up currant creek couple weeks ago, only thing left was the rib cage, backbone, guts and feet. wife took front quarters first trip and i took back quarters first trip, only had to go back for head, hide and the rest of the meat... do it again in a heartbeat.........

tabbyhntr · Oct 12, 2009

woops, meant 1 and 1/2 miles.......

Gazelle · Oct 12, 2009

excellant point!!!!!

shedfinder · Oct 13, 2009

Thanks Doublehaul for understanding what I was talking about. I was in no way condoning the actions of this hunter. I was just trying to figure out how some one could do this to an animal. I had just got done reading the post titled "FOUND HIM" from bearpaws and how it took him 5 days to find his elk and I thought maybe this could be one of those situations.

doublehaul · Oct 13, 2009

It was 1.4 miles from the road in a bowl about 100 yards below a ridge that runs to the road. The ridge is totally flat and open, simple pack out.

ARCHRYBLL · Oct 14, 2009

This is one of those cases where I would be in favor of going to a law like alaska has, you cannot take out the antlers until all the meat has been packed out. Not that it would have helped in this case because whoever this was didn't care about the law