Poaching in western NC is alive and well

[North Fork]

My shot would land on the WOLF not the elk

 

[DirtySteve]

Cow elk with a saddle you say.. Interesting...

 

[brokeasajoke]

Seen one a few weeks @rebel here in yancey co about a mile from where I'm building my house with its antlers/skull cap cut off laying beside the road. Ridiculous.

 

[bluealtered]

These aren't the only ones i have come across over the years, just two of them.

When i first moved here many years ago there was what i thought was a joke going around that when a poacher got caught here you simply took them to the nearest big rootball on a large blowdown tree, (our trees are big enough that some of the rootballs are 15-20ft across) stuffed them under it and then cut the rootball loose from the blowdown. That removed the problem and you also had a log or firewood.
I have never looked at a upright rootball stump the same since learning that.

 

[86alaskan]

I have a feeling that this kinda of poaching is becoming more prevalent everywhere. Go to the pet store and look at the dog chews. You can buy deer and elk antlers at the counter. If I were betting on it, I'd say there's a market for the antlers and that's why they're being killed like this.

 

[rebel]

Yeah, Burke, Cleavland, Catawba and Lincoln have the most bloodthirsty SOBs I have ever seen.

 

[Nightraider]

In Ohio ODNR will cut the heads of any dead bucks. Sometimes it's to prevent traffic accidents, sometimes it's to check for CWD or Blue Tongue. This is especially the case if they're anywhere near the roads. Just saying, might be the case here.

 

[rebel]

In Ohio ODNR will cut the heads of any dead bucks. Sometimes it's to prevent traffic accidents, sometimes it's to check for CWD or Blue Tongue. This is especially the case if they're anywhere near the roads. Just saying, might be the case here.

3 of the 4 bucks are out of sight of the road about 200 yards. On it's busiest day this road may see 4 to 5 cars an hour. The man that came in my shop said the deer were shot. I've talked to NCWR, they are investigating.

 

[oldman1951]

KY here. As a full time grain farmer I witnessed the destruction large herds of deer can do to corn and soybeans. Deer always will clean the ears off of about 4-6 rows of corn around a thicket. Turkeys on the other hand will get 20-30 rows of corn as it emerges around this same thicket. No corn....all grass and 10’ tall weeds at harvest time. The deer I can live with....the filthy mite ridden turkeys I slaughter if the 22-250 can reach them! I despise a nasty turkey!!!.

 

[CaptainMal]

Here, just south of Tampa, we have had two local horses killed and butchered in the field recently.

The killers take hind quarters, remove the backstops and shoulders of each horse, leaving the rest.

 

[Bc'z]

Here, just south of Tampa, we have had two local horses killed and butchered in the field recently.

The killers take hind quarters, remove the backstops and shoulders of each horse, leaving the rest.

Horses? You gotta be kidding.

 

[rebel]

Holy Crap! Who would do that?

 

[Sieg]

Family has a ranch in NE Oregon in a rural river valley with alfalfa fields along 1.5 miles of the river. We have a lot of 'trophy' white tail on the property and spot lighting at night can be a major issue. We take no mercy, to the point of stopping suspect cars on the road when lights are observed.

They should issue tags for game violators and call it even.

 

[Bc'z]

Family has a ranch in NE Oregon in a rural river valley with alfalfa fields along 1.5 miles of the river. We have a lot of 'trophy' white tail on the property and spot lighting at night can be a major issue. We take no mercy, to the point of stopping suspect cars on the road when lights are observed.

They should issue tags for game violators and call it even.

If I'm not mistaken you can only hunt white tails with a drawn tag of very limited numbers.

Holy Crap! Who would do that?

I'm thinking Haitians

 

[ebb]

Get 2 or 3 of the life sized archery targets, They used to be McKenzie 3D targets I don't know who makes them now. Set them up a good distance from the road and when the light comes on shoot it out. They won't be back. An hour up the road from here someone killed a buck that the ranch owner had been feeding for years. One of his cowboys saw the head in the freezer at the taxidermist. The taxidermist let slip when it was to be picked up and a group of cowboys gave the poacher some serious education on shooting on anothers land. The FWC gets many hunters that hiway hunt with a mechanical deer that moves it's head. Ive heard up close it looks like a pin cushion.

 

[fyrewall]

Seen this stuff since I was 6 YO. Whatever- the legal system and courts draw a firm line on justification for shooting humans or at them. Stay cool but see every bit & record it.

 

[D Coots]

Here, just south of Tampa, we have had two local horses killed and butchered in the field recently.

The killers take hind quarters, remove the backstops and shoulders of each horse, leaving the rest.

Sound like the French.......

 

[markT]

On the subject of horses some horses got slashed a few months back in horse country upstate SC. DNR,law enforcement and governor got involved. Determined it was wild boars. Some don’t think it was boars because all of a sudden it stopped.

 

[bluealtered]

Sieg, a simple spike strip can help, if they have walk out and come back to a burned out truck, (a road flare placed on a tire works i hear) word will get around that poachers should try somewhere else.