The case of the missing game bag - What say you?

[LongWayAround]

I always think about those things when I have to leave a load at the truck and go back out, but I really don't think most people are going to do that.

Some shithead driving down the road who's tired of striking out... maybe.

Two guys who get to hunt a lot... probably not.

I'm thinking it was an animal.

I did have a squirrel (probably) steal my ivories one time. I had just popped them out in my backyard and set them on a cinder block when a guy called me who wanted to buy a truck. I dropped what I was doing and went to meet him, sold the truck for cash, and went home. No ivories when I got back.

 

[JK47]

Can you imagine my disappointment when I went back to the trailhead that ain’t really a trailhead and the meat I snuck out from under y’all that I hid down the hill was gone? The wife was really mad cause I told her I was bringing a shoulder home.

Regardless of how your meat ended up down that hill, I’m glad you found it.

 

[idelkslayer]

If it was a bear there would have been holes or tears in the bag and drag marks somewhere along the way. Those guys hid your bag of meat. They may have been planning to hide all of it but you showed up before they could do more. They probably had no intention of taking it for themselves and were probably trying to scare you out of hunting the area in the future.

 

[EdP]

It seems to me a bear could only carry off a game bag with a shoulder using it's mouth. That would leave teeth marks on the bag and meat. If no teeth marks it was carried by hand. Either the guide or bigfoot.

 

[NRA4LIFE]

If it was a bear there would have been holes or tears in the bag and drag marks somewhere along the way. Those guys hid your bag of meat. They may have been planning to hide all of it but you showed up before they could do more. They probably had no intention of taking it for themselves and were probably trying to scare you out of hunting the area in the future.

I tend to think it was something like this. We have a marauding bear in our neighborhood (large lots) that get into people's garbage when they set it out the night before garbage day. We've had it happen twice so we don't put it out until garbage day. When ours was attacked, the damned thing drug it off and it was torn to hell. One time several hundred yards onto my neighbor's property.

Those guys were up to no good me thinks.

 

[cnelk]

No guide is going to get caught with just a shoulder in his truck.

That’s illegal. And they wouldn’t risk their license