Deer Head Stolen

[MT_elk]

This is sickening! I hope they catch the thief.

Game wardens investigating after legally killed deer's head stolen

Game wardens are asking for the public's help after a hunter legally harvested a deer west of Kalispell during opening weekend, briefly left the animal to get a

nbcmontana.com

 

[ignorethefringes]

People are so weird . . .

 

[Deez Nutz]

"Honest, it was a five by five,.. oh ya, and it had a....drop tine, yeah! a drop tine! Yeah too bad you'll never see it tho."

was probly a forky lol



On a serious note, that sucks, thieves deserve to rot.

 

[rogerthat]

"Honest, it was a five by five,.. oh ya, and it had a....drop tine, yeah! a drop tine! Yeah too bad you'll never see it tho."

was probly a forky lol



On a serious note, that sucks, thieves deserve to rot.

There’s a link to Facebook with a picture of the buck

 

[TOGIE]

i've always been weirdly paranoid about this and it's why i usually take the head with the first load if more than one is needed, even in the middle of nowhere. not cause it matters most, but because it certainly is the most likely to be stolen, and you might as well get rid of the possibility in my mind.

 

[44hunter45]

Any writers for Outdoor Life in the area that day?

I sense the beginnings of another BOAL thread.

 

[publichunter1]

I've had everything from entire deer and elk stolen in the field to deer heads in the front yard. Not all stories are real and truthful but it does happen and it sucks when it does. Hoping they catch whoever it was.

 

[huntin24/7]

My brother shot about a 330 bull 2 years ago in WY opening day in an LE unit. We ran into two groups on the initial packout with just meat. Both groups couldn’t believe we didn’t pack the head out first. We said we thought we had to pack out meat. They both said guys will steal that. We hid it and luckily no one took it. I’ve been paranoid since then if we get a good animal.

 

[TheTone]

Lame. Amazing how sucky some hunters are

I half thought an elk head of mine was grabbed once. Was going in for it on the last load and couldn’t find it at the kill sight. Took me a minute of so to remember I had hung it in a different tree on my previous trip out

 

[BirdManMike]

i've always been weirdly paranoid about this and it's why i usually take the head with the first load if more than one is needed, even in the middle of nowhere. not cause it matters most, but because it certainly is the most likely to be stolen, and you might as well get rid of the possibility in my mind.

Ive thought of this also. But then Ive had the alternate thought of 'what if my window(s) gets broken instead?'. I dont which is the better approach.

 

[TOGIE]

Ive thought of this also. But then Ive had the alternate thought of 'what if my window(s) gets broken instead?'. I dont which is the better approach.

locks only stop crime of opportunity.

the way i see it, if that window is getting bashed in, it was getting bashed in with or without a deer head in the truck, most of the time...

 

[Mallardsx2]

I had to explain to my 13-year-old daughter why we needed to bring the horns into the hotel with us this year.
She didn't understand why anyone would steal someone else's horns.

She has so much to learn about the world. Sigh..

 

[Nick87]

i've always been weirdly paranoid about this and it's why i usually take the head with the first load if more than one is needed, even in the middle of nowhere. not cause it matters most, but because it certainly is the most likely to be stolen, and you might as well get rid of the possibility in my mind.

I stashed my bulls head this year while packing meat first. Figured it wasn't any safer by the truck. Pretty sad that you have to do that.

 

[BirdManMike]

locks only stop crime of opportunity.

the way i see it, if that window is getting bashed in, it was getting bashed in with or without a deer head in the truck, most of the time...

Not to be overly argumentative, but its a lot easier smashing a window, grabbing a head, then tossing it into a truck before driving off than it is removing same head afield and hauling it out to (most likely) the same parking access as its rightful owner (as is the likely case at most of the places I hunt).

Best case, of course, is always no one seeing you shoot the thing or load parts of things into the vehicle. Ive pretty well settled on meat first when hauling but we all have our preferences.

 

[TOGIE]

Not to be overly argumentative, but its a lot easier smashing a window, grabbing a head, then tossing it into a truck before driving off than it is removing same head afield and hauling it out to (most likely) the same parking access as its rightful owner (as is the likely case at most of the places I hunt).

Best case, of course, is always no one seeing you shoot the thing or load parts of things into the vehicle. Ive pretty well settled on meat first when hauling but we all have our preferences.

just sayin things like this are usually crimes of opportunity. smashing into trucks isn't really in the realm of "crime of opportunity."

 

[Mallardsx2]

I stashed my bulls head this year while packing meat first. Figured it wasn't any safer by the truck. Pretty sad that you have to do that.

I can relate to that. We did the same thing.

I was more concerned about a bear running off with it than anything though. lol

 

[brymoore]

I’m more worried about losing a hind quarter than a head.

I don’t understand the new trend of fluorescent orange game bags.

 

[LuketheDog]

I stashed my bulls head this year while packing meat first. Figured it wasn't any safer by the truck. Pretty sad that you have to do that.

I always do this. Although this year I didn't and could see two guys across the canyon watching us cut up my bull. Then, I thought I forgot to lock my truck up after the first load, so while wondering if someone stole my elk head while I was packing meat, I also was worrying if somebody was carrying off my rifle, optics, or quarters from the truck while I was making the second load...i'm an idiot