Hunters who helicoptered into isolated public land in the southern Bighorn Mountains to hunt elk claim that after they shot and quartered three bull elk, an adjacent landowner tried to steal one of the bull’s heads.

Andrew McKean, an outdoor writer who lives in Glascow, Montana, told Cowboy State Daily he was among a group of five friends who hired a chopper pilot earlier this month to fly them into some public land that is surrounded by private property.

The group included three hunters with bull elk tags, including McKean, a friend who came along to help pack elk meat and a videographer.

Strange Confrontation

The area where they camped and hunted includes thousands of acres of mixed State of Wyoming and Bureau of Land Management land, and is essentially inaccessible, except by air, M

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