12-02-2008, 04:02 AM
During my Spike hunt on top of soldier summit, a friend found a dead 5x6 bull, when I went to see it I would say it was dead for about 3-4 weeks. All the muscle in the rump was gone down to the bone and moving. There was a hole in the upper back halfway down the ribs and the maggots where just spilling out.. The whole elk under the skin was maggots. Stunk so bad...... kinda got in your hunting clothes just standing next to it..... The guy that found the elk has also told another hunter and he got ahold of DWR and showed them where it was.....
Today, one of the guys I work with lives in Stockton and he mentioned he was going up behind stockton in the hills and found a gut pile and elk hide and the legs cut-off beside the road... He could not tell what kind of elk the hoofs were. When I was up there hunting buck deer this year, just before where he found the gut pile there is a house and small field fenced in and there were 4 big bull elk in there that morning. I know lots of big bulls come down all the time and even cross the road by the church in stockton. We used to see them all the time going to and from work in the morning/evenings. My friend still has his cow tag for the hardscrabble area and this thursday we are taking off work and see if we can connect with his cow.... I am going along to help drag or pack out..........
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Today, one of the guys I work with lives in Stockton and he mentioned he was going up behind stockton in the hills and found a gut pile and elk hide and the legs cut-off beside the road... He could not tell what kind of elk the hoofs were. When I was up there hunting buck deer this year, just before where he found the gut pile there is a house and small field fenced in and there were 4 big bull elk in there that morning. I know lots of big bulls come down all the time and even cross the road by the church in stockton. We used to see them all the time going to and from work in the morning/evenings. My friend still has his cow tag for the hardscrabble area and this thursday we are taking off work and see if we can connect with his cow.... I am going along to help drag or pack out..........
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