Poached Buck

[Musky Buck]

He just magically found it, think a poacher would not try to recover that animal at 3:00 AM likely knowing it was a trophy animal ? My guess, he dusted it with a rifle, left it lay, went home, got rid of all poaching equipment, kept his camo on, got a smaller flashlight checked the area over for trouble, found it, gutted it, tagged it like he bow shot it, got friends to help drag it trying to convince the friends he really did bow shoot it for his ego. Or, the friends knew all along and lied so they weren't viewed as accomplices. But, that could be totally wrong.

[Musky Buck]

My view wouldn't change whether it was a trophy buck or a yearling. It is wrong to abuse your hunting and fishing laws in any knowing way whether you like them or not. Is it you get a thrill from getting away with something or by doing it by the book that we should all be playing on. If it's option A I'm sorry to tell ya you got a little something wrong with ya and it's a body blow to all the great people that lawfully hunt in MN.

[gardn184]

Agreed musky buck, it doesn't matter if its a yearling or a monster, by killing the yearling you could be preventing a monster 4 or 5 years down the road, its a slap in the face to everyone who legally hunts and respects the animals they pursue.

[Still_Huntin]

He just magically found it, think a poacher would not try to recover that animal at 3:00 AM likely knowing it was a trophy animal ? My guess, he dusted it with a rifle, left it lay, went home, got rid of all poaching equipment, kept his camo on, got a smaller flashlight checked the area over for trouble, found it, gutted it, tagged it like he bow shot it, got friends to help drag it trying to convince the friends he really did bow shoot it for his ego. Or, the friends knew all along and lied so they weren't viewed as accomplices. But, that could be totally wrong.

Close, the only thing is he doesn't have any friends, none of his old friends talk to him because he's a pathalogical liar!

He had his cousin and his cousins girlfriend help him load it into the truck in an area he doesn't even hunt, there is no way he just stumbled across this deer at midnight get real.

I think it went like this, he either seen the deer on his way home because he drives right past where the big buck was shot on his way home, seen the big buck and went the 3 miles to his house to get his or his dads rifle, or he already had a spotlight and rifle and was roadhunting. He probably shot the deer and grabbed the shell casing and threw it in the ditch a little bit up the road or in the garbage. Waited awhile and went back around midnight after he scoped the area out, found the buck, jammed an arrow through it a few times, tagged it, and called his cousin for help.

[Musky Buck]

Right on gardn. While the average Minnesotan sleeps the thief is using the cover of darkness to get away with whatever he left his or her house to do. Then you have the daylight violators. I forgot to add earlier it could be a monetary thing of course as well. I do know how the hunter's in the area feel. We were closely watching an 8 x 8 in 1986. I have seen only 2 Boone and Crockett bucks in my life that I actually had a chance to pursue. First one was a mess of a non-typical that a member in our group missed him never to be seen again in 1988. That 16 pointer was likely poached as we found a huge buck with the rack cut out, can't prove it was the 16, but he was never seen again and there isn't many bucks that dress 220 or a bit more and found dead a 1/4 mile from where he was coming out religiously every night, and the problem is he was very visible from the road(s) and lots of people knew of him. Either way, that rifle season was depressing as he was gone before we had a chance.

[Musky Buck]

Right on still huntin, just found it, well then just call the DNR because there's a definite poacher in the immediate area. He could've almost been a hero if he would've reported it, but the problem is he would've had to report himself.

[Musky Buck]

So friends helped drag it ? What hour of the day was this ? Whose land were they on ? Hmmmmmmmmmm.

[Still_Huntin]

Yeah read the story above that fishinguru posted. It's spot on.

The area his cousin and gf helped load it into his truck is about 4-5 miles from where he orginally claimed he shot the buck which is the real land that he does hunt. The buck was actually shot right off of a country road that goes to his house about 4-5 miles in the other direction.

So basically the poacher (Mr. Reinke) told DNR he shot and killed it where he hunts but when he told DNR that his cousin and his gf helped load it ofcourse DNR went to investigate and ask them questions and they told DNR a whole different location (the real one).

Add that on top of them finding gun powder residue and when DNR went back to talk to Mr. Reinke and they told him his cousin has a different location and also they found gun powder residue he switches his story to he just happened to find the big buck and stuck his arrow in it to make it look like he shot it.

Kind of funny he managed that in the dark, 5 miles from his house, on a random piece of land that he doesn't even know the land owner.

DNR should also nail him with trespassing charges, I'm sure the landowner would be game since he poached a record deer on his property and trespassed to retrieve it.