Elk Stolen in Billings

[S-3 Ranch]

Saw this today

no way I would leave my animal in my truck @ a no tell hotel in Billings, much less even the
police station in that HH town

 

[SwaggyD]

Saw this today

no way I would leave my animal in my truck @ a no tell hotel in Billings, much less even the
police station in that HH townView attachment 243915

A guy I follow on Instagram has been blasting him, for good reason.

 

[TheTone]

A guy I follow on Instagram has been blasting him, for good reason.

Care to pm me an account to look at

 

[DouglasR]

I made a sarcastic comment about this in another thread, but honestly that sucks ass if he checked into a hotel @2am and prob did the somewhat respectful thing by not bringing a severed animals head into a hotel room and it got stolen.

 

[Hunting Wife]

I wouldn’t leave a rack in the truck in any town in Montana. It’s stupid how much hunting gear gets stolen in even little dinky towns anymore.

 

[DFS]

If you can’t kill one steal one, oh the memories. Hope the hunter gets it back. I dread this time of year in Montana.

 

[Dinkshooter]

There is no way on God's Green Earth I would check into a hotel in hunting country with a 2 point mule deer in the back and not expect it to get stolen. retrads.

 

[thomas89]

Stuff like this has me reevaluating taking a head out first to lock it in the capper, or leave it in the woods to maybe get stolen while I’m packing out.

Usually a meat first kinda guy, but Jesus this is bad.

 

[SwaggyD]

My buddy had one stolen outta his pickup in the high school parking lot. We went out there at lunch for him to show me and there was nothing there.

 

[Hem]

HW nailed it.
Statement about humanity.
Hate to say it,but I don't trust f-ing anybody but close friends..

FyI...ever check out the visitors at a Town Pump? 50% good, 50% scumbags.

 

[Four22]

I chained a B&C whitetail to the bed of my truck for this very reason….

Hope they find it

Trust in America is gone.

 

[mtnkid85]

Certainly crime effects communities well out side of our own. But I can't help but think something like this being caused by our (hunters in general) fetishizing big antlers. Undoubtably that bull represents more than we will ever know to the hunter, but to the thief its just a set of antlers. Sure he will probably make up a lie to tell his friends or maybe cut it up and sell it to next years antler buyer for $18/lb, but those antlers will never represent the memories of the hunter again.

Trying to get into the mind of a thief is an exercise in futility but I just can't help but think no one would be interested in stealing something like this if we all didn't care about them so much.

 

[Art Vandeley]

wtf steals someone else’s elk head ? What kind of story do they tell their buddies about it ? Ridiculous

 

[Hem]

wtf steals someone else’s elk head ? What kind of story do they tell their buddies about it ? Ridiculous

This has nothing to do with bragging to buddies. Its a catalytic convertor....Quick cash.

 

[TheTone]

I get worried just leaving them around camp or the kill site when doing multiple trips

 

[Art Vandeley]

This has nothing to do with bragging to buddies. Its a catalytic convertor....Quick cash.

Honest question, who can they sell it to ?

 

[antlerradar]

This has nothing to do with bragging to buddies. Its a catalytic convertor....Quick cash.

Yup! went right into the Meth pipe.

 

[Hunting Wife]

Honest question, who can they sell it to ?

Any of the dozens of antler buyers hauling trailers around Billings and nearby towns right now, for starters.

 

[antlerradar]

Honest question, who can they sell it to ?

Plenty of antler buyers around.

 

[BAKPAKR]

That guy had a heck of a year, first the ram, and then that bull. It does suck that the antlers were stolen.