Hey guys,
I work for a logging company and as such there are many guys in the woods everyday. This morning the fallers get to work early I the morning and come across some Asians in a Toyota van
looking suspicious. Middle of nowhere vancouver island, in a bow only elk draw only area. They confront them and they say they are just target shooting. Hmmm... ok...
The fallers look around some more and see a bull elk, 6x6 down in the slash, shot. So the van load takes off. The fallers call it in over the radio, and get the RCMP, and CO enroute. It is a one way dirt road to nowhere, so needless to say they are busted.
The pulled them over and search the van, and find some rifles, and a loaded 357 in the glove box. So they arrested them pending their investigation.
It was a great job by all of the different phases of the logging company, from the fallers, to the log loader operater who went into the slash to retrieve the elk, and handed it off to the lobed driver who brought it into camp. Once at camp we lifted it off with the trailer reload hoist, and waited for the CO to come and do his investigation. That's where I came in. I got to help him cut it apart, and do some CSI on it. We were luck to find an intact bullet, that had hit a rib, and slowed it down enough to stay inside the elk. The other 2 shots were through and through.
Happy to help a bunch of poaching ass holes get busted. Such a waste of a beautiful animal. The meat was already spoiled by the time it was all said and done.
I work for a logging company and as such there are many guys in the woods everyday. This morning the fallers get to work early I the morning and come across some Asians in a Toyota van
looking suspicious. Middle of nowhere vancouver island, in a bow only elk draw only area. They confront them and they say they are just target shooting. Hmmm... ok...The fallers look around some more and see a bull elk, 6x6 down in the slash, shot. So the van load takes off. The fallers call it in over the radio, and get the RCMP, and CO enroute. It is a one way dirt road to nowhere, so needless to say they are busted.
The pulled them over and search the van, and find some rifles, and a loaded 357 in the glove box. So they arrested them pending their investigation.
It was a great job by all of the different phases of the logging company, from the fallers, to the log loader operater who went into the slash to retrieve the elk, and handed it off to the lobed driver who brought it into camp. Once at camp we lifted it off with the trailer reload hoist, and waited for the CO to come and do his investigation. That's where I came in. I got to help him cut it apart, and do some CSI on it. We were luck to find an intact bullet, that had hit a rib, and slowed it down enough to stay inside the elk. The other 2 shots were through and through.
Happy to help a bunch of poaching ass holes get busted. Such a waste of a beautiful animal. The meat was already spoiled by the time it was all said and done.
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