What's An Elk Look Like?

[Sgt Nambu]

Good Lord!

Was he stomping you?
Or was he on top of you doing something worse?

Or better?

 

[Caveman Jim]

Or better?

Oh you mean like "Here's yer Deer Meat MFer.....

I hunted them for 8 years before I quit buying a tag, during elk season of see big Blacktaied bucks & visa versa during deer season.... It's no wonder I have no hair left!!!

 

[Sgt Nambu]

My way too, guys! Especially seeing the big elk during deer season! Durn!!!

 

[BaggerRyder]

They look like this if your lucky.

 

[Mark W.]

That is an issue of mine. In Europe we (are required) to use a dog to track wounded game. A revier owner has to have a "versitle" gun dog available for that exact situation. I hate a non clean kill, that is why I think archery hunting for big game should be illegal. Too many people that won't master there weapon and shoot at too long a distance. I have killed 2 deer with arrows in festering wounds during rifle season.

They would arrest you for using a dog to track game in any shape or form here in a heart beat

 

[Argonaut]

They would arrest you for using a dog to track game in any shape or form here in a heart beat

Yes I know. There are some states that are coming around but that is the problem.

 

[Caveman Jim]

I had an acquaintance who bow huts for elk & deer. He has told me that him & a friend shot 3 elk one weekend & lost them all due to the rain & couldn't track them...
I asked him if he thought it's fair that they killed 3 elk & let them go to waist & he said "that's hunting", you got to shoot at em to kill em!!!!!

 

[Argonaut]

I had an acquaintance who bow huts for elk & deer. He has told me that him & a friend shot 3 elk one weekend & lost them all due to the rain & couldn't track them...
I asked him if he thought it's fair that they killed 3 elk & let them go to waist & he said "that's hunting", you got to shoot at em to kill em!!!!!

That is pure evil.

 

[Caveman Jim]

That is pure evil.

It sure is and he is dead to me.

 

[clearconscience]

I had an acquaintance who bow huts for elk & deer. He has told me that him & a friend shot 3 elk one weekend & lost them all due to the rain & couldn't track them...
I asked him if he thought it's fair that they killed 3 elk & let them go to waist & he said "that's hunting", you got to shoot at em to kill em!!!!!

I understand one. But 3! Your just poaching.
You should have cut his bow string and kicked him in the junk.
People like that have no respect for nature or have any sportsmanship.
How hard did he even look?!

Thats the kind of pos that kills someone else by taking pizz poor shots

 

[Jerry]

How can it be shot and bleeding if you never saw it?

Have you ever tracked a wounded animal in the snow? If so, the answer is quite obvious!

 

[Jerry]

This is the only view I've ever gotten. Usually running he'll bent for victory away from me...

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It's amazing how may stumps and logs can look like elk butts!

 

[Jerry]

Wapiti Story...inspired by the ability of the elk to change and not just survive, but to thrive!
2nd season Oregon, Catherine Creek.+20 to +5.
Our theory, they would be spending the day on southern exposures (warmth).
Last day, took a shortcut across a north exposure. Two bulls stood up in the pucker brush.

That is often the case!

 

[Jerry]

When I was young, I hunted with some buddies (one was the postmaster) out of Sand Point. We were out in a pretty remote area when we came across a middle aged guy that was covered in blood, by himself and begging for help. He had a cow tag and shot a large animal, needed help handling it and getting it out. So, we went back to the site of the kill. Here laying dead (and dressed) on the ground was a genny mule. So we had a long talk with the guy, he was a Californian that had never hunted before, had driven to northern Idaho by himself.......the worst part was the poor mule even had shoes. My buddy (the postmaster) got angrier as time went. He tied the guys hands on a pole across his shoulders tied his gun on it with a sighn explaining what he had done. Then marched him several miles to a checkpoint where he was gathered by the Sheriff. It was a life changing event for me as a 14 year old. So DON'T BE THAT GUY............

When I was a kid in Walla Walla, a guy came down from the Blues into a checkpoint at Tollgate, with a dressed out mule. Don't remember if he got to keep it or not. Things get a little crazy during hunting season!

 

[Jerry]

Like this; that's currently looming over my head.

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Damn cobwebs..

Sweeter than a kiss!

 

[Jerry]

That is an issue of mine. In Europe we (are required) to use a dog to track wounded game. A revier owner has to have a "versitle" gun dog available for that exact situation. I hate a non clean kill, that is why I think archery hunting for big game should be illegal. Too many people that won't master there weapon and shoot at too long a distance. I have killed 2 deer with arrows in festering wounds during rifle season.

Great idea, but is is totally "Verbotten" in Washington State.

 

[Jerry]

Yeah, heard it referred to as a Texas star shot as well. Have to see horns first, and those bastards are fast when they get spooked by gunfire...

Oh boy can they run!!

 

[Kidder74]

Apparently, they look very similar to a large white-tailed buck...
14-year-old Missouri girl shoots elk 200 miles from herd

 

[Jerry]

Oh you mean like "Here's yer Deer Meat MFer.....

I hunted them for 8 years before I quit buying a tag, during elk season of see big Blacktaied bucks & visa versa during deer season.... It's no wonder I have no hair left!!!

Ain't that the dang ol' truth!

 

[Jerry]

They look like this if your lucky.
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Well done lad! Well done!