I believe this is the 3rd or 4th moose poached this year.  Believe there was 12 known cases last year.

This is really sad. I have no mercy for guys that do that.

Thats just horrible. There seems to be a lot of poaching cases this year. Like Exbio said it's the 4-5 case reported so far on this forum alone. I hope officals can catch the party responsible for this and through the book at them. I feel there shouldn't be any mercy shown to these ciminals. All they are doing is stealing an oppertunity for a law bidding hunter.

Especially, when someone waits 15 years or longer to get enough points for a Moose hunt, and these clowns think they can just steal them. I get more pissed thinking about it.

I have not heard of this one.  I usually do get an e-mail from the Parks and Wildlife or the DOW.  That is just too bad.  I was raised differently I guess.  You are right though - definitely don't want to hunt with somebody that would do that.  And yes, if you walked up to them they probably would have shot at you.  I too hope they are caught.  This was no mistaken identity - they knew what was in the crosshairs and shot it just to harvest the backstraps.  Idiot criminals!

Very, very sad to hear about this. It's bad enough when it happens anywhere, let alone in a place like Colorado, where there isn't a huge population of Moose.  Plus, people spend 15+ years on the list, waiting for the privelage and opportunity to hunt one of those great critters, and some idiot comes along and poaches them.

Ugh.  I wish somehow karma visits these poachers on one of their hunts.  Really sad if they get away with this, which most likely, they will.  They probably sliced those out in minutes, and got away with 20+ pounds of meat.

Well we can only hope that the number of poachers is less this year are we don't see the number of "accidental" shots as compared to last year!