#2283347 - 06/29/08 06:31 PM
Re: A Few Elk
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GuyM
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Outstanding! Thanks, Guy
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#2283582 - 06/29/08 08:00 PM
Re: A Few Elk
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MtMike
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Flying D/Turner ranch? Great herd.
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#2283602 - 06/29/08 08:07 PM
Re: A Few Elk
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jwp475
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Flying D/Turner ranch? Great herd.
Nope. Elk aren't big enough for the Flying D, they average 350 B&C or larger on the Flying D
Edited by jwp475 (06/29/08 08:08 PM)
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#2284686 - 06/30/08 01:41 PM
Re: A Few Elk
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Leanwolf
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Nice shot.
What State??
L.W.
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#2285053 - 06/30/08 05:42 PM
Re: A Few Elk
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Ackleyfan
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Looks like Idaho!
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#2285818 - 07/01/08 06:00 AM
Re: A Few Elk
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jwp475
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Washington State near Wennachi
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range it,check the wind, dial in correction,aim,squezze and only one Shot......
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
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#2285848 - 07/01/08 06:24 AM
Re: A Few Elk
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Thanks for sharin'......this bunch must be right over the hill from the ones I chase each year, literally.
Love the herd pics. Tough to break 'em up prior to opening day sometimes, but much safer for them, in more ways than one.
Thanks...........
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#2287289 - 07/01/08 09:30 PM
Re: A Few Elk
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jwp475
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That picture was taken a day or two before the season opened. Like you said it's tough to break them up before the shooting starts ane after that all bets or off.
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range it,check the wind, dial in correction,aim,squezze and only one Shot......
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
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#2289290 - 07/02/08 09:25 PM
Re: A Few Elk
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Funny how that goes. I've been the first on herds several times during past elk seasons. Generally when this occurs, I've humped in a few miles to get where they live to have such an experience first thing opening mornin'. They're all relaxed, many bedded down, lots of time to pick your bull........heaven for me as an elk hunter, but only if I'm alone or perhaps with a very trusted huntin' partner.
If I happen on to a herd closer to a road system and I see a bunch of "pumpkins" surrounding a herd prior to shooting hours, I have always in the past headed off in another direction. It's not primarily about the safety issue although that is a consideration, but more the fact that I've heard enough about herd shoots and seen the results of a few involving numerous hunters to know that there are oftentimes cows and non-legal bulls wounded or killed prior to the end of the "war". I refuse to be a part of that possibility, even if it might have cost me a bull that season. I've found enough wounded and bloated elk after just such an occurrence to know that such an experience is very distasteful to me......pass throughs included.
No one's perfect and accidents happen, I just don't want to be part of a herd shoot where the end result is unclaimed animals and hunters pointing fingers at one another. This can happen anywhere, DIY or guided hunts, but the likelihood of it occurring on a DIY on public land hunt, I feel, is considerably higher. That is always how I've chosen to hunt elk with the exception of a guided hunt in the "Bob" last Nov.
Herds are great to happen upon when alone or with a trusted partner, but outside of that, I wish that each elk in every herd would head in different directions prior to the huntin' season.
Just my thoughts.......YMMV.
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#2291699 - 07/04/08 08:32 AM
Re: A Few Elk
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taz4570
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It does look like New Mexico, too. I saw a similar herd adjacnet to the Whittington Center this past January. We were hunting the adjacent (also) Vermejo. I also see herds like that in the late cow season here in Middle Park in CO.
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