I saw some reckless shooting also. On our way in on Sun. the 26th, there were a lot of animals along the road through the resident draw area. Guys were lined up along the road shooting at a herd on a lake while several other guys were out on the lake retreiving downed animals. I saw one animal shot that was no more than 100' or so from a guy dragging one off the lake. There were so many guys down on the lake, and shooting from the road, that the caribou just kept running around in circles. I'm surprised someone wasn't either shot, or beat to death by the guys on the lake who were in the line of fire.

I also saw a group of guys shooting at a herd of about 15 or 20 animals running away across a lake below the dam. They must have fired at least 30 or more shots between them. There were four caribou down on the ice by the time the rest were gone. A guy and his wife told us later that they snowmobiled out and followed the trail of several wounded animals, and filled their four tags. There were apparently several more wounded also, which they told some other hunters about, and they had gone after them. The original shooters had taken the four that were down, and made no attempt to go after the wounded ones. Where is law enforcement when you need it???

There were a lot of hunters in the area, and other than these two incidents, everyone I saw was obeying the law, and acting responsibly.