Some people!!! WOW!

[Derrick621]

I am up hunting my LE elk on the Wasatch and I can't believe some people. Ok, here we go. I set up a trail camera on a water hole which I thought was in a remote area. I marked with orange tape so I could come back in the next day and hunt it without getting turned around. The same night I set the camera up my brother and a friend of mine was talking with someone who was going to be hunting the same area where I had left the camera. He was dang near hiking in the exact same way I marked the way in. So I was on my way in the next morning to sit the water hole to find all of the orange tape gone and the camera stolen. I didnt even make it 24 hours! It just gets better... The next morning I was set up calling in a bull. I was set up as the shooter and my dad and brother were the callers. The bull was screaming and was coming in. We were over a mile away from any road. All of a sudden we hear a 4 wheeler.. it's getting closer and closer. I got to thinking... There are no roads around here what the heck is going on. All of a sudden a 4 wheeler goes right in between my and my callers beating the brush and making his own road throught the mountain! I look up at the 4 wheeler as it passed and there was a guy and his kid hauling out a spike elk on the back! We tried to get his attention but he just drove by and up the mountain he went. We followed the tracks all the way up the mountain through some nasty terrain. I couldn't believe he just took his 4 wheeler where he did. We followed it out eventually leadign to the road. We looked for him so I could get a license plate number to give to the Fish and Game but we couldn't find him. All I can say is what a LAZY A$%! If you're going to shoot an elk way down in some hole you better be willing to quater it out and pack it out on your back! The way it should be. Sorry I just had to get that off my shoulders. "Some people"

 

[oneaway]

Sorry to hear all that. I hate thieves! Public land can be a muthapucker!!!

 

[isayNUNYA]

Must have been guides. DIY'ers wouldnt act like that.

 

[justr_86]

You should have called it in anyways. I would say I wish he woulda rolled the wheeler but his kid was on with him....

 

[elkantlers]

Why use your back if you can get a wheeler to it?

 

[mevertsen]

>Why use your back if you
>can get a wheeler to
>it?


If you can get your wheeler to it and not destroy any habitat, go ahead.

If it destroys habitat, and you have to make a new road just to get to it, then do it the right way.

I helped a person the other day. The elk (probably 600-700 lbs) died 200 yards from a road. We could have gone back to his camp, gotten a wheeler, gone in there and drug out the elk.

But, nope, we decided to quarter the elk there, and carry the pieces back to the truck. Didn't destroy the habitat, and still got the job done.

A spike elk will only have 30 lb front quarters, 50lb back quarters, and 40lbs in loose meat. A healthy person can do that in as little as 4 trips, but some people are just lazy.

Later,

Marcial

 

[Zeke]

I hate lawless, lazy, theiving prickles too!

There are no areas open for cross-country game recovery on the Wasatch. I hope a few more lazy turds get caught. Use a backpack, it's just the right thing to do.

Good luck. We'll be there this coming weekend with rifle in hand.

Zeke

 

[Derrick621]

Yep, he just made his own road and plowed over everything in his path. We figured he was over a mile away from any road. JUST FYI I AM JUST SITTING IN CAMP NOW... I GOT MY BULL!!! WHAT A HUNT. I WILL GET THE STORY AND PICS POSTED AS SOON AS I CAN.

 

[Zeke]

D621

Good job on getting a bull! We'll look forward to seeing pix and reading your story.

Zeke

 

[bearman]

Had to be Diy, guides wouldn't do that.

 

[Ropinfool]

damn theives.....i can't believe they used the 4 wheeler. i would have driven my truck to it.

 

[Elliston]

Just curious...but your story makes it sound like you marked your trail cam with orange tape. Is that what you did... or did you just mark the trail to your cam with orange tape? Either way investing in a GPS to find your way to the cam again would be cheaper than leading thieves to it with orange tape.

 

[TheKnack]

Sorry to hear your going through that crap. Hope you still are able to hunt more and nail a big one.

Right now I have a real jerk trying to screw up my hunt....I work with a guy and he got mad when I said I would not hunt with him and show him the area I hunt in.
More than one reason but one of them is because he admittedly says he hunts at night during full moon. I told him he is nothing but a poacher plain and simple and if I ever see him do it I will turn him in...He laughed and said he has been doing it for years and said prove it........
Now the guy drives by my house constantly and waits for me to hunt and drives around trying to find where I access my hunting areas....He shows up after I come back sitting on the side of the highway in his truck.
Unfortunately after dodging the idiot many times he has narrowed down where I hunt and blabbed it to anyone who will listen.
The guy and many of his friends have been running the elk all over the place and they even wounded one which I know because I found fresh blood near an elk bedding area. Most likely done at night but how do I prove it?
I have got the word out that I am having the DOW check the area out and hopefully that helps put the fear in them but then again they are plain losers that care nothing about accomplishing themselves and instead try to cheat and steal an area I have hunted for many years and learned intimately. Heck if someone found the area on there own and hunted hard and arrowed the bull then I would have no problem with it, but this is clearly not the case here.
Now I only have 2-days left in my schedule to try and get a bull I have hunted for three years that is spooked worse than ever and I am sick about the whole mess.
Starting to think the only solution is to hope he comfronts me away from work and swings at me so I can sock him in the nuts and mouth.
Very frustrated.
Jerry

 

[300Shortmag]

It's sad that the days of people having courtesy and ethics are gone. That'd chap my hide for sure, cause in my book there is nothing worse than a thief.

You'd hope that everyone who partakes in hunting would be more ethical than the average joe, but just goes to show you that we mix with all kinds.

Just remember there are a thousand great hunters for each turd out there and don't let it bring you down too much.

Congrats on your harvest.. hope to see the pics and read the story soon.

 

[HalfAce]

Thats bs, guy probably noticed you there too and kept driving. Some guys dont respect the land or rules. Hes probably the SOB that leaves his beer cans on the side of the road too...