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Jul 9, 2019 21:00:15 GMT -6
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Post by david on Jul 9, 2019 21:00:15 GMT -6
My dad and I were drawn for a bull elk in Wyoming this October. He has killed many, but this is my first trip
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Jul 10, 2019 4:39:20 GMT -6
Post by highgrit on Jul 10, 2019 4:39:20 GMT -6
My dad and I were drawn for a bull elk in Wyoming this October. He has killed many, but this is my first trip Good luck, and post a few pictures from the hunt. |
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Jul 10, 2019 15:41:08 GMT -6
Post by hook on Jul 10, 2019 15:41:08 GMT -6
The vast majority of the elk I have been involved with were Roosevelt elk on the Washington coast. They have smaller antlers than their Rocky Mountain cousins. But bigger bodies. For the last 20 years or so we hunted an area behind locked gates. This was timber company ground. It was walk in or peddle a mountain bike. Three of us averaged better than one elk a year. And I don't remember any of them being closer than 4 miles from the gate. A couple were 9 miles from the gate. Shoot one and it turns into work real fast. I was kind of proud of myself hunting there after I turned 60. Most of the people you meet in there were in their 20's or 30's. You should be. Climbing elk hills isn't for the out of shape. I wouldnt be against shooting one real close to the road |
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Jul 10, 2019 17:06:59 GMT -6
Post by 3LT Farms on Jul 10, 2019 17:06:59 GMT -6
The vast majority of the elk I have been involved with were Roosevelt elk on the Washington coast. They have smaller antlers than their Rocky Mountain cousins. But bigger bodies. For the last 20 years or so we hunted an area behind locked gates. This was timber company ground. It was walk in or peddle a mountain bike. Three of us averaged better than one elk a year. And I don't remember any of them being closer than 4 miles from the gate. A couple were 9 miles from the gate. Shoot one and it turns into work real fast. I was kind of proud of myself hunting there after I turned 60. Most of the people you meet in there were in their 20's or 30's. You should be. Climbing elk hills isn't for the out of shape. I wouldnt be against shooting one real close to the road After some serious thought, I think I'd wait until he was ON the road. |
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Jul 10, 2019 20:46:48 GMT -6
Post by dave on Jul 10, 2019 20:46:48 GMT -6
You should be. Climbing elk hills isn't for the out of shape. I wouldnt be against shooting one real close to the road After some serious thought, I think I'd wait until he was ON the road. There are a lot of others with that same thought and method of hunting. They are the reason for a hunter success rate of about 10% in Washington state. My two boys and I ran about 50% success. And the son of my old hunting partner has got one every year for the last 15 years or so. The people who do that drive the success rate up. The road hunter success rate is probably less than 5%. |
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Jul 20, 2019 10:20:23 GMT -6
Post by Allenw on Jul 20, 2019 10:20:23 GMT -6
They say we have them here in Oklahoma but I have yet to meet anyone that has seen one or knows where they're at. There is a herd on the refuge at Lawton and we have a feral herd in southwest Dewey county. Some fool couldn't get a permit for them so he turned them loose, now they're protected. Been a couple of record elk took out of them, always by some one with wildlife department connections. |
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Jul 21, 2019 1:30:34 GMT -6
Post by the illustrious potentate on Jul 21, 2019 1:30:34 GMT -6
They say we have them here in Oklahoma but I have yet to meet anyone that has seen one or knows where they're at. There is a herd on the refuge at Lawton and we have a feral herd in southwest Dewey county. Some fool couldn't get a permit for them so he turned them loose, now they're protected. Been a couple of record elk took out of them, always by some one with wildlife department connections. That's a bad deal for multiple reasons. My understanding is that captive deer have a much higher chance of carrying chronic wasting disease. I don't know if the same holds true for elk. |
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Jul 21, 2019 5:35:56 GMT -6
Post by randy on Jul 21, 2019 5:35:56 GMT -6
There is a herd on the refuge at Lawton and we have a feral herd in southwest Dewey county. Some fool couldn't get a permit for them so he turned them loose, now they're protected. Been a couple of record elk took out of them, always by some one with wildlife department connections. That's a bad deal for multiple reasons. My understanding is that captive deer have a much higher chance of carrying chronic wasting disease. I don't know if the same holds true for elk. It does hold true for captive elk. Only way of knowing if a animal has cwd is kill it and test it. |
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Jul 21, 2019 9:11:01 GMT -6
Post by Allenw on Jul 21, 2019 9:11:01 GMT -6
I don't know what the health status was at their time of release, I felt they should have been eliminated instead of being allowed to run free.
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Jul 22, 2019 21:02:01 GMT -6
Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2019 21:02:01 GMT -6
This is from one of the hunting trips by friends and I used to go on every year. A lot of work.  But this was in the hay field and only involved a tractor and a pickup to do the hard work:  |
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Jul 22, 2019 21:14:37 GMT -6
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Post by bulltrader on Jul 22, 2019 21:14:37 GMT -6
Now that's my kind of hunting.
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Jul 23, 2019 6:25:20 GMT -6
Post by hook on Jul 23, 2019 6:25:20 GMT -6
Now that's my kind of hunting. Hell ya! |
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Jul 25, 2019 5:26:50 GMT -6
Post by randy on Jul 25, 2019 5:26:50 GMT -6
Tractor with loaders sure helps.
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Jul 29, 2019 10:32:33 GMT -6
Post by Jake on Jul 29, 2019 10:32:33 GMT -6
I don't know what the health status was at their time of release, I felt they should have been eliminated instead of being allowed to run free. The health status means more to me than anything. They are a native species across the entirety of the states and we extirpated them everywhere but the the Rocky Mountain west. Hard for me to think that something we did to a species in the last 150 years should be all they are allowed to be for eternity. |
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Jul 30, 2019 13:47:45 GMT -6
Post by randy on Jul 30, 2019 13:47:45 GMT -6
Well a few million head of buffalo would sure wreck alot of fence in kansas. I bet they would do good on those wheat fields. The Rocky Mountian elk we have here was not the native species. And they wreck a lot of fence now and then.
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