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I've seen bachelor herds before but never when all the boys were big, mature bulls like that.... pretty impressive...
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Cool! Are those Roosevelt's?
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Quite a collection of trophies on the hoof! Interesting to watch their interactions and tolerance with each other.
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Cool! Are those Roosevelt's? Looks like nooksack/skagit country. I know the “how to hunt” guy is from BC, hunts alotta blacktails
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Just for the record...wapiti is Shawnee for 'white rump'. Apparently the Shawnee were color blind. They're yellow. Mule deer have white rumps.
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Cool! Are those Roosevelt's? Looks like nooksack/skagit country. I know the “how to hunt” guy is from BC, hunts alotta blacktails That's what I was thinking. Some dandy bulls in that group wherever it is!
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Neither here nor there, but I'm curious, I have lived and worked in the mountain west all of my 75 years, other than some Alaska time...and I have never heard ever heard anyone say 'Wapiti'. Seen it in magazines a lot, but never heard it. Is that a thing? Is it only used by a certain income group? Also since I' m axing, is it 'wah-pity' or 'wah-peetee'?
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Wapiti isn't a thing here. I never hear it, just read it. It's just a nick name.
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Perhaps to distinguish between American (wapiti) and European "elk" (moose)_
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Since we are digging into sophisticated linguistics, I'll share the Klamath tribes universal word for the 'yellow rumped good to eat' animal. Elk. There are still some elder tribesmen who use the longer description, "Sumbitch looked bigger in da headlights".
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I've seen bachelor herds before but never when all the boys were big, mature bulls like that.... pretty impressive... I agree, as I never get tired of this!
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After the rut, the bulls separate from the cows for a while, usually until mid to late November. I've seen herds of 100 or more with not a single antler in the crowd other than a few yearling spikes. It's dang frustrating when you see a field crawling with elk and not an antler in the bunch to fill your tag.
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Wapiti isn't a thing here. I never hear it, just read it. It's just a nick name. I use it all the time, as in .... "I went to the mountains to outwit the Wily Wapiti. Unfortunately, the Wily Wapiti outwitted me yet again."  L.W.
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Wapiti isn't a thing here. I never hear it, just read it. It's just a nick name. I use it all the time, as in .... "I went to the mountains to outwit the Wily Wapiti. Unfortunately, the Wily Wapiti outwitted me yet again." L.W. mmm, yes. That does happen more often than not. I've had my share of outwittings. You sneak through the trees toward a herd that you KNOW is there. Then when you're only a thin layer of trees away from them, you hear a bunch of hoof beats and branches breaking.
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Very cool! Wherever it is....
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