Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting 443" bull shot in MN.

Would never hang a whitetail from TX in my house, personally. I'm not big on the whole corn and fences thing.

Damn magnificent trophy bull there! Bet it would take up some real estate in the house without a doubt! Not my business what he does with the head.

Is an elk tag pretty hard to draw in MN? I'd presume so, but I've no frickin clue on game regs there having only ever driven through.

IN the upper midwest nature conservancy land is road less land open to hunting. Its anything but a park and gets hunted pretty hard.

Yes, very hard to draw a tag and just once in a lifetime I believe.

As mentioned, we don't know all the facts.

Like what if the wife worked for the place the elk lived at?

We don't even know if this bull had a name.

Like the Spider Bull from a few years back? Believe that one was from Utah or Nevada, I forget.

Team Mossback. 13 guides and one shooter.

Damn, what a nice bull, congrats to the hunter.

Gunner

That BIGASS'D Suburban of yorn would handily haul his big ass back to the house.

Gunner

Interesting history behind Minnesota elk.

Minnesota Elk Management

Seems their planting food plots to keep them out of food plots.

This elk is not as big as the one from the same area that tripped on a fence a few years ago.

4th biggest elk trips on fence

I remember that one. Kind of a cool story, actually.

It leaves a bad taste in my mouth when some of you jump to conclusions right away because you are not the one with a nice Elk. Sounds just like some news agencies after the Naval yard shooting about the guy having a friggin AR-15. If something was amiss it will come out. Until then, just congratulate the Guy on a nice animal, pick on his wife some or the fact he may sound a little whipped. At least he is still married and has more then half of his stuff. Congrats to the hunter!!

The Nature Conservancy is an organization that buys large tracts of land, often adjacent to large public tracts and preserves them as wild lands, often gifting them to state or federal agencies. I guess some would call them tree huggers.


Link to the Minnesota elk story and the Nature Conservancy's part in it:
http://www.wiktel.net/birdsanctuary/elk%20history.htm

Oh, and I think he should get a new house to display it in.

Bill

That sort of raises the question about who is jumping conclusions. Unless I missed who is saying it is not a nice elk?

I spent 28 years in Minnesota, and never seen a wild elk there. My cousin does raise elk in Minnesota. Huge off the record-book huge elk.

But it's not the same as here (Colorado), not good vs bad, just not the same.
Maybe it's the comments referring to this story of interest that gave you the bad taste in your mouth?

Elk are hard to manage in Minnesota, I provided a link in reference to their reliance on humans.
And in my opinion, elk are no longer indigenous to Minnesota because of this, not in the least.

Not better, different then back home (Minnesota) , this was my morning walk.



Easy to catch the sunrise, elk bugeling all night!
Too close to home, to much exposure to humans for me to call it a hunt. But they are fun to practic calling on!

I am happy for the hen-pecked hunter!
But it is not what I would call a hunt, not the way his elk are managed.
IMO.

Without jumping conclusions, is it alright to assume the question why Cabelas denied displaying the rack?

Again, we don't have all the facts.
But it would not surprise me if this elk had an ear tag.

It is a nice bull, grain fields sure did put some horn on his head!

For the uninformed, MN offers a very limited # of elk permits each year to attempt to control ag depredation in two or three areas of NW MN. Some of the land in each zone is Wildlife Management Area public land but there are also many acres of agricultural lands interspersed throughout the areas. Generally the herds number around 60 +/- animals each and the herd capacity goal is around 30 animals per zone. These are once in a lifetime hunts and generally between 25-30 permits are available each year and there are over 1000 applicants. A drawing is held to determine succesful hunters and then a second drawing for zone and type of animal is held. These are free range animals and the fair chase hunts are licensed and administered by the MN DNR. These are not wilderness hunts since the typical land ownership holding per family is a few hundred acres to a few thousand acres. Not unlike many of the private land areas in ag valley areas of western states where the animals congregate on good quality ag forage until driven off by hunter pressure. The land is generally flat and much of the public land is high water table lands or forested/brush lands. The bull in the article this year was taken on a piece of land owned by the Nature Conservancy which allows hunting but does not permit motorized vehicles. Typically this owner acquires lands and ultimately sells them to state or federal governments when funds become available.Check out the MN DNR website for additional information.

heck, even back in the 80s, the DNR had a hell of a time trying to capture those elk from doing crop destruction, and relocate them....

my first wife was like that also.... "you aren't hanging that in MY HOUSE!!!!", like she was the only one who lived there....

Great bull.

The pictures won;t load for me, can a kind soul send one over here on the forum?

Try this link. More pics and the actual hunt story.

http://outdoorchannel.com/article.aspx?id=18039&articletype=article

Shot it with a .270. How did that happen? Amazing.

That's what I was thinking. Had to be a misprint.

I think if the elk herd in MN is allowed to grow it will be less and less dependent upon humans, with the amount getting into farmer's crops they might have picked the wrong area to reintroduce them.

there are a few states east of the Mississippi that have re-introduced elk and they seem to be doing fine, i'm sure each area has some that get into fields and cause some damage but so do deer and bears so not the end of the world in my eyes