“One of the largest bull elk ever recorded in Pennsylvania was killed illegally, along with two other elk, in Clearfield County in September. Three local men are being charged with “teaming in a poaching effort,” the Pennsylvania Game Commission announced yesterday.
In its statement, the Game Commission confirmed that the largest of the illegally harvested elk had a 10×9 non-typical rack that would have scored 432 7/8 inches B&C. It would have ranked as the third-largest bull elk in the state’s history. The other bulls were a 5×7 and a 4×5.”
Guys like this give hunters and hunting a bad name because to the anti-hunting crowd-they are hunters.
They are not hunters,they are scum sucking pieces of shit who need to spend years in prison,lose their rights to hunt in every state,pay fines that cover the costs of replacing mature bull elk in the Pa. elk herd.
I believe under Pa law,they will lose the rifle that was used to kill the elk. In some states,people lose all of their firearms,the vehicle used during the poaching,any camping gear they used,along with any other hunting gear and game processing equipment.
I could see shooting an elk out of season if your family had no food,these guys killed the elk,sawed off the antlers,and left the animals to rot. They deserve to spend years in prison,and pay the game commission the cost of replacing the elk they killed. When released from prison,they should have to perform at least 1,000 hours of work for the game commission improving elk habitat,and other wildlife conservation work.
These dumb fucks took a huge elk out of the gene pool of the Pa elk herd-that bull would have sired many young bulls that would have had antlers at least as large as his-and these idiots took it out to sell the antlers on E-bay. They killed the elk due to greed,nothing else. Then,they left the animals in the woods to rot,the dickheads could have dragged the elk to a point near the road,and made an anonymous call to the game warden and said an elk was dead near the road-that way at least the meat could have been used to feed people.
People like this disgust me,they give the anti-hunting crowd fodder to use in their campaigns to ban hunting,claiming these pieces of shit were hunters.
Hopefully the local people cuss these dumb fucks out whenever they see them,maybe they’ll go to the local bar,and someone will smack the shit out of them. They deserve much worse.