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That's where the "age" part of "age, genetics and nutrition" comes from. Bucks that are either smart enough or just plain lucky enough to live in suburbia or a gated community.

Some monster elk here. Cool to see. A few nice bulls made it down close to where I live. We had pics of them close to prince galitizin. The game commission caught wind and quickly relocated the elk back north.

Monsters, there ARE !!!


Me and Momma took our two oldest kiddos out calling when they were just young. Beautiful September morning. We got about a mile back a forest service road and had a typical 8x9 called to 11 yards (came in totally silent) when he figured us out and spun. I was actually starting to sweat a little. Biggest bull I've ever seen in my life.

A good buddy of mine is a former warden. He was part of a big elk study they did +/- 15 years ago. He verified that some of the herd had been 30 miles SE of Punxsutawney.......just east of Glen Campbell. And I believe it was 2013 a cow took off and ended up just east of Kittanning (just a ways up the Allegheny River from Pittsburgh) where, I think, she got hit on the road.

8:37pm 8/24/22 Two bulls were on the field at 8:32pm One walked off but 1 bull is left feeding and wearing a collar. Enjoy 24 hr Campfire folks. HH

8:44pm 8/24/22 24 Hr folks, got back on the elk field streaming web cam and 5 elk were out and two bull are sparring. The elk wearing a collar is one of them, and he is a larger bull, maybe a 5x5 hard to tell in the lighting. I am pleasantly surprised they are sparring so early, might be a fun viewing night !
Enjoy ! HH

Possibley 4 of the 5 elk on the field at 8:50pm tonight were bulls.

Very cool!

No, I didn't know him. We pretty much stayed in camp.

We hunted about halfway between Keating and Renovo, Cooks Run to Kettle creek, mostly. Most of the bear we got were across the Susquehanna. We'd take john boats across early, then drive the hillsides and swails along the river.

This is what was going on up there in the 50's...Doubt many would like their camp that close to a nuclear reactor in the early days of nuclear development.

https://uncoveringpa.com/jet-bunkers-quehanna-wild-area


The State eliminated the 99 years leases because many of the camps had turned into 99 year old shiitholes and were not being maintained or were abandoned. You can still have a camp lease in Pa, however they are now 10 years leases.

https://www.dcnr.pa.gov/Business/StateForestLeasedCampsites/Pages/default.aspx


Friends own this camp outright on land the original owners purchased in the 30's. Cooks Run flows past the front door. Essentially surrounded by State Forest. The State tried to force them out for years, but the owners backed them down and they finally gave up. Elk come in and stand in the lake and rub their velvet off on the camp corners. You can be in bed sleeping and an Elk will start rubbing on the corner.







Gravity feed water from pipes that originate in a spring up the valley. Has better water pressure than here at home.

Sweet!
I love that area. We stayed right where cooks run dumps into the river.

The original old boys that built the first camp, would have the train leave them off in Sinnamahoning with building materials. And then take Mule wagons up over the mountain on a road they cut, on land they didn't own, with materials to build the original camp. That road eventually became the State road thru the mountain. Until the State started to maintain it, that is how they got to camp every Deer season or when they wanted to go to camp.

Leave the Model T's and A's in Sinnamahoning....Wagon in, wagon out for around 10miles. Often cutting away fall downs to keep going. They were some hard ass boys. Then it was Deer...you never saw an Elk.

Meanest mountains PA has, IMO.
I blame them for two bum knees.
The last one went when we were bringing my son's bear out.

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The State eliminated the 99 years leases because many of the camps had turned into 99 year old [bleep] holes and were not being maintained or were abandoned. You can still have a camp lease in Pa, however they are now 10 years leases

The one my family had sure wasn't no [bleep] hole and it was well maintained. Four different family used it. I didn't know about what type of engines were being tested though I was only 9-10 at the time.

Ironic that I escaped that radiation and ended up at the Nevada Test Site doing Underground Nuclear Test Site. Consequently getting more than my share of radiation. Today, I qualify as a past nuclear worker and I am getting some of my medical care for problems associated with it paid for from the Department of Labor

Clinton County can test the best... West Virginia can do the same. The Western States have little to nothing on them.

Except less oxygen.

There is that...however, the best adapt to whichever.

Here's one from last year. You'll recognize that apple tree in the background. I'm really hoping to see him THIS year.
ETA - that's a coyote in the background of the second pic. They were all over last year up there.

8:00pm 8/27/22 Two nice bulls on the field just grazing and moving around a little now. HH

When did this happen? If it ACTUALLY did, and depending on the timing it sounds pretty likely that the PGC moved wild Cervids from one of their own disease management areas, to another area?... meanwhile hunters can't legally take a deer home in the trunk of their car to process in their own home if they happen to cross the imaginary line on the map.

Please elaborate.

The pgc's cwd regulations are about like the covid mandates. Draconian nonsense to " protect" everyone from a non-threat.

However, IF this really happened it proves that much like our federal government, the rules don't apply to them

Heck of a show out there right now. 6:30am

6 bulls, some sparring. A couple monsters.

Man they have some screwy genetics up there. I don't think this is the same one from last year but I'd bet it's one of his off spring.