Sadly, i can. There is some real scum out running around.
I don't think this is the work of a poacher. maybe someone throwing out scraps
Are you sure the antler was cut off? In the picture it looks it may have just fell off ( I’m looking on my phone so forgive me if there are obvious saw marks). It may be the coyotes got him.
Or if coyotes did take him down they may have pulled it off.
You may consider contacting the game warden service there and explain the situation and reasonably sure they would investigate and/or set something up to catch these folks...
Hard to excuse that. I used to hunt whitetail deer in NH and ME, and there were so many occasions where I silently watched these magnificent animals pass by, either because they were does in buck-only season, or because there was no clean kill shot. It is encumbent on those who do it right to either educate--or prosecute--those who don't. Each generation of hunter in America should be better than the last. Often it is the simple understanding that "it matters what you do when no one is looking." Same goes for off-roading--or anything in life, really. Shame on the perpetrators... They're probably the same people who throw beer cans out the window and leave bags of trash on the roadside at night. Take the high road (preferably in a Honda Pioneer!].
Backwoods I’m like you, 30-40 years ago I definitely didn’t see as many deer as I see now. Unusual I don’t see deer during a morning an evening hunt. I too haven’t taken a doe in years. Not as much a challenge to take something, I wait for those I would mount whether or not I do. Hunted the same property since ‘78........
