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Hunter killed by elk a day after he shot it

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WHAT’S BEING CLAIMED:

  • Mark David, 66, was killed by an elk he had shot with a bow and arrow the day before.
  • David returned Sunday to collect the injured elk, but the animal killed him when it gored the man through the neck.
  • The elk was butchered and its meat donated to the Tillamook County Jail.

In Western Oregon, a weekend hunting trip turned deadly for 66-year-old Mark David. The man from Hillsboro, Oregon, died after he was gored by an elk which he had shot with an archery bow the day before.

According to a report by the Statesman Journal, David had gone bow hunting on Saturday on private property around 60 miles west of Hillsboro near the coast, outside of Tillamook.

He managed to successfully shoot a 5×5 elk, however, David was not able to find the animal before nightfall and made the decision to look for it again the following day.

The next day, David returned to the property and was joined by the property’s owner to find and collect the animal. They successfully pinpointed the wounded elk’s location at about 9:15 in the morning, said Oregon State Police to the Statesman Journal.

Fate took a deadly turn and the elk charged at David when he tried to finish the animal. The elk managed to gore the man in the neck with its antlers.

The Oregon State Police said in a statement to the Statesman Journal that the landowner tried to help the injured David, however, the hunter’s injuries were fatal and he died.

According to the outlet, after the conduction of an investigation, the elk was killed and butchered. Its meat was donated to the Tillamook County Jail.

Source: PEOPLE

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49 Comments

  1. theresa meiners

    October 24, 2022 at 7:06 pm

    Ha, Ha, Ha, dumb ass.

    • Dan

      October 24, 2022 at 7:26 pm

      Elk finally gets even

      • July Hunter

        October 25, 2022 at 2:20 am

        Reminds me of a Queens of the Stone Age music video. But seriously, wounded and/or cornered animals are the most dangerous. My condolences to his family and friends. That is a terrible fate for anyone to meet.

    • Donald Cook

      October 24, 2022 at 7:26 pm

      you are not to bright and very MEAN.

      • Topazinator

        June 16, 2023 at 4:56 pm

        It would be “too” and not “to”, speaking of “bright”.

    • Dragon

      October 24, 2022 at 8:43 pm

      You are pitiful.

    • Old Fur Trapper

      October 26, 2022 at 2:55 am

      Spoken like a true dumb ass female liberal! You don’t know a damn thing about what you are saying! But then again, you will never have a real life that matters to anyone!

      • Topazinator

        June 16, 2023 at 5:00 pm

        Her use of the description “dumb ass” applies to more than one person in this string, scholar.

  2. Patricia Ann Moody

    October 24, 2022 at 7:35 pm

    That innocent Animal deserves a Gold Medal! These Human Butchers & Savages that they are , should ALL be mutated by these Animals they Hunt, & the Rotten Nerve, to kill that poor ELK, instead of giving him Medical care! Wouldn’t You Hunters, kill another Hunter , who Bow & Arrowed your CHILD!!! Dollars to Donuts, YOU would, & to make matters worse, to butcher & eat a defenseless Animal! It could have been a Hunters Child on a Human Plate!!’

    • Johnny

      October 24, 2022 at 8:36 pm

      You are much too WOKE. Please go back to slumbering.

      • Marilyn Z

        October 25, 2022 at 2:29 pm

        I agree. Or she is just a wild-eyed vegan. These sorts don’t realize that it is important to thin these herds.

        • Mark

          October 25, 2022 at 6:00 pm

          Unfortunately, no one thought to thin the Moody herd!!

    • SANDRA O LE BLANC

      October 24, 2022 at 9:36 pm

      Wow!! It is an animal and God put animals on earth for humans to have food too. Hope you are as avid a defender of the life of infants as this animal!!

      • Steven

        October 24, 2022 at 10:04 pm

        Nailed it.

      • Rorvig

        October 25, 2022 at 5:35 am

        Wow, you are privy to God’s opinions? Odd that God would say that to you, since a plant based diet provides plenty of protein and is healthier for humans than eating meat.

        Hunters usually say that they do the shooting for food. Apparently this hunter’s family and the landowner did the shooting for fun, because they gave away the meat. Or it could be they were afraid to risk the several diseases that wildlife can carry.

        • Terminator

          October 25, 2022 at 8:44 am

          How about the fact that the state took possession of the animal after the incident, and rather than waste the meat donated it to an entity that could use it.
          I seriously doubt that the man’s family would have wanted it after what happened.

    • Steven

      October 24, 2022 at 10:03 pm

      Ever eaten a hamburger, Ho?

    • Lisa

      October 24, 2022 at 10:15 pm

      You’re an idiot

    • Dennis B.

      October 25, 2022 at 1:36 am

      Totally agree.. most hunters are male chauvinistic pigs to begin with and love violence.. How can anyone with a normal mind consider killing innocent animals as a sport.

      • July Hunter

        October 25, 2022 at 2:32 am

        @Dennis B.. Don’t assume he was doing it for sport. Many people depend on hunting to put food on the table and feed their kids.. You remind me of the city slicker who said not too long ago “Why do we need farmers, we have supermarkets all over the place”.

      • Terminator

        October 25, 2022 at 8:46 am

        And you are an idiot!

    • Terminator

      October 25, 2022 at 8:37 am

      Nutcases like you are beyond help!

    • Jeffery

      October 25, 2022 at 10:37 am

      I guess you eat no meat. And while you’re on your soapbox, I’m more DISGUSTED with Humana that kill their unborn children!!😡😡😡

    • Old Fur Trapper

      October 26, 2022 at 3:05 am

      What a damn bleeding heart pathetic female dumb ass you are! Hunting has always been the way of life for humans! Where’s your bleeding heart for the chickens, lambs, hogs, sheep, and cattle that are slaughtered by the thousands every day to feed your dumb ass? Those animals don;t even have a chance to run! Damn you are so dumb ass! That hunter was putting food on the table for his family! Just like I have done! Since you don’t know a damn thing about game management, hunting, wildlife, or funding of such programs, just shut the FU until you grow up and learn something! Even your pathetic attempts at equating animals to humans shows just how damn ignorant and dumb you really are!

  3. Jack

    October 24, 2022 at 7:42 pm

    Whole lotta stupid people out there….

    • Mike

      October 24, 2022 at 7:53 pm

      That’s like taking a knife to a gunfight!

  4. john

    October 24, 2022 at 7:44 pm

    I carry a .357 Magnum Revolver while hunting archery as well as with a rifle. If it ain’t dead after I got it with an arrow, it will be with the pistol.

    • Johnny

      October 24, 2022 at 8:42 pm

      “Big John”
      If the right hand don’t get him, then the left one will.

    • RockyMtn 1776

      October 24, 2022 at 9:44 pm

      I have never hunted with a bow but I ALWAYS make sure the animal is dead before getting too close. Your choice of a .357 mag is an excellent choice. Mine is a Ruger GP100, it’s never failed me.

  5. Rose Bollig

    October 24, 2022 at 7:48 pm

    Setting here reading these comments…it occurs to me that the “human species” is such a stupid race …all of you nut cases laughing because a man was a hunter and he was gored to death…how ignorant can you really be? And then the nut case who compared this with a child.??? Give me a break…hunting is not a sin and many people depend on hunting to have meat to eat…such do gooders…you are pathetic…..and what’s sad is you walk among us……

    • Rattlerjake

      October 24, 2022 at 9:04 pm

      Speaking of stuuuupid, a “species” is not a “race”. Now, with that said, there are no “races” of humans, there are several separate species and a lot of mixed hybrids! Lumping all humans into one species with multiple races violates the system of Taxonomy which categorizes ALL LIFE ON EARTH; this is backed by scripture!

    • wrausch

      October 24, 2022 at 11:23 pm

      Well said! What a bunch of pathetic, ignorant “woke” knuckleheads.

  6. Barry

    October 24, 2022 at 8:05 pm

    This shows that hunting can be very dangerous. We need to remember that there would be very little wildlife if not for the millions of dollars that hunters pay so they can hunt. Their dollars pay for the Game Wardens who make sure the rules are followed.
    Many don’t like hunting and then go get their meat from the store. The animals they get from the store have to be killed too.
    To cheer that someone was injured or killed shows a lack of character.

  7. James Nice

    October 24, 2022 at 8:08 pm

    It’s time for people to learn to be humans again. What ever happened to “celebrate the diversity?” I guess it’s becoming more fashionable these days to stereotype anyone that doesn’t agree with you entirely. After all, like it or not, humans are at the top of the food chain, unless they are unarmed and facing a short list of animals like mountain lions, grizzly bears, etc.

  8. JAMES james wareham

    October 24, 2022 at 8:22 pm

    I was struck by the statement that “after an investigation”, the elk was killed and butchered. This sounds like they kept the elk as a witness. Was the investigation to prove that this was indeed the elk who gored the hunter?

  9. Rattlerjake

    October 24, 2022 at 8:49 pm

    Why was the meat donated to a jail? Criminals do NOT deserve it. This should have been donated to needy families or other WORTHY cause.

  10. Cathy Reynolds

    October 24, 2022 at 9:34 pm

    I call it a hunt if it’s on an equal level. Send a group of guys into the woods, all armed with the same weapon, and the one who returns is a winner. Yeah! Shooting a defenseless animal with an arrow is cruel at the very least. That animal was suffering all night. Spare me the crap about shooting an animal to feed your family. Nonsense! You’re out there to kill and slaughter. It must make you feel like a real honcho…not!

    • Rowdy Yates

      October 24, 2022 at 11:59 pm

      Your are showing your woke colors, do everyone in the USA a big favor and find another country to live in.

    • Dennis B.

      October 25, 2022 at 1:42 am

      Did you ever think that when hunters kill another hunter whether accidentally or on purpose, that people are happy about it. That’s what you deserve.. It’s called Karma.

    • David Boerboom

      October 25, 2022 at 8:25 am

      Apparently, not so defenseless.

  11. Patricia Ann Moody

    October 24, 2022 at 9:48 pm

    What is a Hunter without his or her DEADLY WEAPONS??…….,,,,,A Filthy COWARD!!! These Animals would be living a life that “GOD”, Blessed them with, Animals don’t Create Deadly Nuclear Weapons, Child Molesters or Rapist, etc. they love & give lovers “GODS Creation on this planet. Mankind has Tore GODS planet to pieces. Eat Vergetarian CLEAN Food, & save an animals life! In case you are too BLIND to know, Humans are also Canabalistic, they eat each other! , who the HELL created this!!!

    • Steven

      October 24, 2022 at 10:12 pm

      If the population isn’t kept in check, the animals will die of starvation, doosh. Guess you never ordered prime rib in a restaurant.

  12. Rosemary

    October 24, 2022 at 11:09 pm

    KARMA gets you every time.

  13. Patricia Ann Moody

    October 25, 2022 at 6:50 am

    Quess You Never realized why mankind’s Government send innocent Soldiers to die Astrosities, by other humans in a WORTHLESS, Slaughter, called, “WAR”! Same Sickening reason, to lower the human & Animal Populations, & cause EnMass Nuclear Dis Destruction! You “Barbaric”, Hunters, You want to kill soldiers as armed as YOU, c’mon, let’ a murder be even, rave your filthy Amunition, & be a Man , go to EUKARAINE, or other WAR-TORN countries, & fight & slaughter, for the American Government! Fair Fight! Both are armed to Kill! Animals are “EASY PREY, that’s why Hunters are Coward Bastards !!!!

    • Terminator

      October 25, 2022 at 8:52 am

      OMG, you even scare me!

  14. Brandon X

    October 25, 2022 at 2:38 pm

    We’re on the road traveling right now. We have seen several dead animals along the sides of the highway. They must have been trying to get revenge. I don’t understand why they don’t cross by their crossing signs.
    (Can’t fix stupid!)

  15. Patricia Ann Moody

    October 25, 2022 at 5:27 pm

    Right! YOU, can’t be fixed, your Damaged human Brain, is one Quarter full, why don’t YOU, open up a “SCHOOL, & teach Animals “HOW to READ!!!

    • Brandon X

      October 26, 2022 at 10:48 am

      You totally read my reply wrong. I was being sarcastic!!!

  16. Patricia Ann Moody

    October 25, 2022 at 5:32 pm

    Right! YOU, can’t be fixed, your Damaged human Brain, is one Quarter full, why don’t YOU, open up a “SCHOOL, & teach Animals “HOW to READ!!! I did NOT say ;”teach Animals to read!!! They are ROAD KiLL, because , “Animals can’t Read”! Do you understand???!!!

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