“I don’t want you hunting this outfit.”

The rancher doesn’t think it was a one man trespass.

Questioning The Trespass Story

DeLapp said he wonders whether McKean and the other hunters didn’t realize they’d trespassed at the time the bull was shot.

The bull died on a hillside and was apparently dragged about 25 yards onto a flat section of public land before it was quartered up, he said.

Given the sheer size of a bull elk carcass, DeLapp said it seems like a lot of work to drag it, even for multiple people.

So, he wonders if it wasn’t dragged to quickly get it off private property.

If McKean wants to “do the right thing” in response to trespassing, that should include naming who, if anyone, helped him drag the carcass, DeLapp said. https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/0...opter-hunters-says-he-received-death-threats/
I’ve kicked elk and had them roll farther than 25 yards had to even begin to speculate how hard it would be to drag a elk 25 yards I’ve pushed dragged and pulled multiple bulls farther than that to get them to a better spot to quarter them up
 
The landowner acted illegally and childish by trying to take the trophy away from the hunters. If he believed it was taken illegally he should document, and call the law enforcement for the violation.
The hunter acted childish by brazenly hunting close to the property line inside the land locked public land to prove a point. Then illegaly when an opportunity arose for the trophy.
It sound like neither one acted appropriately to represent their side of the argument for this rule change. Anyone else who has an interest in this rule change now has egg on their face.
 
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