Good morning, everyone... Since it's Sunday (and we still can't hunt on Sunday in Virginia! ) I wanted to ask a question about something I stumbled upon yesterday out in the George Washington Nat'l Forest in Virginia.

I drove out to the George Washington Nat'l Forest (looking for that beautiful 8 pointer that I missed the shot on the last time I was there). I spent the day out there settling in here, moving over there, giving space to other hunters, etc... I decided to pull into one of those primitive campsites/forest road pullovers, since nobody was there.

Upon walking further up into the campsite, I heard the buzzing of flies and couldn't believe what I saw... Someone shot two deer, and left the carcasses there to rot!

One was a apparently a nice buck, and had his skull cap sawed off and his brains were gone or eaten out. His hide was still intact, but his entire lower half (butt, hips, guts, etc..) was eaten out and there were huge claw marks all over him from a bear.

The other was unidentifiable, as it had no head at all, no hide, and again, half the carcass was all clawed up and eaten out by a bear.

I didn't know what to do... I was looking all around for a bear and was nervous that I would end up between a bear and his food. I had my old Garmin eTrex GPS in my pack, so I marked the primitive campsite as a Waypoint.

Anyway, I just couldn't believe that someone would do that and just leave complete (or half complete) deer carcasses there to rot! What kind of sick person would do that?

Should I put in a call to the Nat'l Forest's Ranger District and give them the GPS coordinates, so they could check it out?

What would you do?