I kept finding Sorel-prints in nearly every set of tracks I found one snowy elk season. Giving it up and heading for another spot I hunt, I came across what I thought were bear tracks around a deer carcass. As I got closer, I realized they were not bear tracks but human tracks, the carcass was still warm, and the head was missing (checking the deer over, the remainder of the anatomy indicated it was a buck deer - not in season, and now obviously poached). Plugged the location into my GPS and headed for the truck and bag phone (so this had to have been quite a few years ago). Along the way, caught some movement behind me, realized I was being followed. When the guy was close enough to identify as another hunter, I felt threatened enough to slip the safety off my own rifle - he was carrying his at the ready as well. So, we're both standing there, he asks me if I'd seen any elk that morning. Nope, just a dead deer, I said. To my surprise, he said he'd just come across a cow, a spike, and a bull without antlers all dead just above where I'd logged the dead buck into my GPS. He thought I might have shot the elk. Ha! I thought he'd shot the deer. We were both heading back to our trucks to make a report when we stumbled into each other.

Had an intern working for me the next year who had access to all the poaching reports filed. Had him follow up on my report - which he found, along with the other guy's, and notes to the effect that no G&F person was available to investigate, so nothing was done. Probably nothing that COULD have been done, I'm sure the perpetrators were long gone by that time.