Blood Boiling

[MT_elk]

This junk makes me so upset!

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is asking for help in finding the people responsible for killing a bull elk in Tizer Basin south of Helena.
The bull elk was killed and the antlers removed. The rest of the animal was left and wasted. The elk was killed using a firearm during archery season.
The crime happened during the nighttime hours of Sept. 14.

Tizer Basin is in hunting district 380, which is managed by FWP for older bulls and branch- antlered bulls. The hunting district can be hunted by permit only. It’s a permit that is one of the hardest to draw in the state.
Anyone with information on this crime, should contact TIPMONT. You can do this online at tipmont.mt.gov. You may be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,000.​

 

[Westelker]

This junk makes me so upset!

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is asking for help in finding the people responsible for killing a bull elk in Tizer Basin south of Helena.
The bull elk was killed and the antlers removed. The rest of the animal was left and wasted. The elk was killed using a firearm during archery season.
The crime happened during the nighttime hours of Sept. 14.

Tizer Basin is in hunting district 380, which is managed by FWP for older bulls and branch- antlered bulls. The hunting district can be hunted by permit only. It’s a permit that is one of the hardest to draw in the state.
Anyone with information on this crime, should contact TIPMONT. You can do this online at tipmont.mt.gov. You may be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,000.​

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That's disgusting! Who ever did that should be hung by their balls!!!

 

[SD_Prairie_Goat]

Poachers give every legally abiding hunter a bad rep with the general public.

 

[Westelker]

Poachers give every legally abiding hunter a bad rep with the general public.

Yeah! And the non-hunting general public probably doesn't know the difference between a poacher and a law abiding hunter.

 

[Wily Wapiti]

Poachers are scumbags...

 

[Labman]

Poachers give every legally abiding hunter a bad rep with the general public.

I hear that knee jerk statement every year and don’t find any truth to it, I think repeating it only perpetuates the narrative. That’s like saying bank robbers give gun owners a bad name. If an adult can’t separate a criminal from a law abiding citizen they are pretty stupid.

 

[Elky Welky]

I hear that knee jerk statement every year and don’t find any truth to it, I think repeating it only perpetuates the narrative. That’s like saying bank robbers give gun owners a bad name. If an adult can’t separate a criminal from a law abiding citizen they are pretty stupid.

Just because you don't like it or can't see the truth in it doesn't mean it isn't true. Every time a nut job attempts to assassinate a president, gun owners do, in fact, get a bad name. Big media outlets don't know the difference between poachers and hunters and unfortunately, hunters do get a bad name. Even hunters who do things that are shady but legal, like when Cecil the Lion was shot in Africa, give hunters a bad name.

Bank Robbers, using readily available firearms that the firearms industry wants people to buy for whatever reason they feel, certainly do give law abiding citizens a bad name. Your subjective opinion about that doesn't change that it happens.

And we should absolutely, as a community, fight to regulate our own and not prioritize antlers above all else, so that poachers like this don't give us a bad name.

 

[Labman]

Big media outlets don't know the difference between…

Ya…about half of us have known this a long time.

Every time a nut job attempts to assassinate a president, gun owners do, in fact, get a bad name.

Really? I have yet to see anyone make that statement in the last 60 days, until now.

 

[cgasner1]

Ya…about half of us have known this a long time.

Really? I have yet to see anyone make that statement in the last 60 days, until now.

First thing in before the lock. Second thing guns don’t kill people husbands that come home early do.

 

[Elky Welky]

First thing in before the lock.

Don't worry @cgasner1, I'm not going to derail this one. Just had to call BS on some BS.

Either way, whoever did this deserves a fate far worse than what happened to that bull.

 

[cgasner1]

Don't worry @cgasner1, I'm not going to derail this one. Just had to call BS on some BS.

Either way, whoever did this deserves a fate far worse than what happened to that bull.

I don’t see you being the one to de rail it. My guess is someone will run their mouth soon enough and that looser will get caught. They always do and I hope it’s true this time also

 

[Elky Welky]

I don’t see you being the one to de rail it. My guess is someone will run their mouth soon enough and that looser will get caught. They always do and I hope it’s true this time also

When I was hired for my current job I told them the one case I would not defend is people who poach for antlers. I'd probably do a better job than any state prosecutor of making sure that person gets the harshest sentence possible, ha!

 

[Nameless Range]

Poaching is pretty prevalent in the Elkhorns. I live a couple miles from Tizer Rd, and hope to see the guilty party's head on a pike at the I-15 exit in the near future.

 

[ismith]

Just because you don't like it or can't see the truth in it doesn't mean it isn't true. Every time a nut job attempts to assassinate a president, gun owners do, in fact, get a bad name. Big media outlets don't know the difference between poachers and hunters and unfortunately, hunters do get a bad name. Even hunters who do things that are shady but legal, like when Cecil the Lion was shot in Africa, give hunters a bad name.

Bank Robbers, using readily available firearms that the firearms industry wants people to buy for whatever reason they feel, certainly do give law abiding citizens a bad name. Your subjective opinion about that doesn't change that it happens.

And we should absolutely, as a community, fight to regulate our own and not prioritize antlers above all else, so that poachers like this don't give us a bad name.

Speaking of assassination attempts............

 

[cgasner1]

Speaking of assassination attempts............

Don’t do it

 

[ismith]

Don’t do it

Do what?

 

[cgasner1]

Do what?

Last time I bought something of that nature up on say this last Sunday thread was instant deleted

 

[ismith]

Last time I bought something of that nature up on say this last Sunday thread was instant deleted

You must have missed the post I quoted?

 

[gouch]

It's been pretty bad here locally this year.

Person or persons responsible for poaching in Central Point identified - KOBI-TV NBC5 / KOTI-TV NBC2

JACKSON COUNTY, Ore. – The person or persons responsible for poaching a bull elk in Central Point earlier this month have been identified. According to Oregon State Police, three suspects were wanted for trespassing on private land near Crater Lake Avenue and McLoughlin Drive in Central Point on...

kobi5.com

2 Oregon elk poached within 100 yards of I-5; OSP seeks public's help

(Editor's note: A photo of one of the elk that was poached appears in the video above and at the bottom of this story.)

www.centraloregondaily.com

 

[perma]

First thing in before the lock.

beat me to it