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Originally Posted by Fireball2


You guys with the truckloads of elk are blowing my mind! Unreal. I pack mine in pieces, never have been near a road when I got one. I did get one 4 point, 2 guys, and all our gear on a Honda 300 ATV once. Can you picture a low-rider? Pre-digital days or I'd post up and show off. wink


So you are actually hunting them in the wilderness??
That's more impressive than elk in a truck bed.

Elk in truck beds (much like mounts, or 'shooting game') don't mean much until you know the story.
A good many won't admit that they are hunting ranches.
Even if they are not, you gotta wonder how much hunting is involved anytime you can get a truck to it.

I'll confess to hunting a ranch once.
It was blast and I had a great time but not any great hunting achievement on my part, easy compared to the Natl Forest.

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Skidded a whole cow down from above timberline a couple years ago in one piece. Two of us racing to drag it across the crusted froze snow before the sun hit. Made it to the road before the sun. I don't get many out like that.

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Thanks for the reponse Shrapnel.Awesome deal without a doubt.Nice looking rig your Ram.

It's all good Brad.Thx for asking.Happy New Year to you and yours

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We had three cows quartered in the back of a first generation Tacoma double cab a few weeks ago. Shoulda taken a pic I suppose. Gettin 12 quarters and loose meat to the truck took 10 hours.


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You clowns that whine about how hard it is to kill elk crack me TF up.

Colorado is by far the easiest place i've hunted to go kill an elk if you're hunting general season.So when i see someone like mowser telling us how hard it is i pretty much discredit anything he has to say.Wow, you hunt NF! jeez i bet guys that are posting pics have never done that.

You have to remember, you guys arent always talking to some wet behind the ears first timer, regardless of "how old they are".

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Colorado has a 20% success rate for elk. Doesn't sound that easy to me great white hunter.

I don't remember saying it was hard either? You want to point me to that post?


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I'm not surprised by the success rate, 80% of hunters are too damn lazy to kill anything.

Point you to a post? You are constantly making elk out to be some kind of critter akin to a unicorn.

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I'm sure 80% of the elk hunters would agree with that, but I still don't remember saying elk hunting is hard.

The only hard part for me is getting up the mountains at my age. Elk has nothing to do with that.

I might have said still hunting can be harder than spot and stalk, or taking long shots, but again. It has nothing to do with elk.

I think you've misunderstood what i've said.


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Here's my addition for elk in vehicles.. not whole though, head, front shoulder and loins.. Lee Metcalf Wilderness, Monument area, '94. I was driving US 191 so much that year I bought an old beater Civic for $200. Sold it for $250 in the Crystal Bar that winter.
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Couple years later I was showing photos of an elk I arrowed to a friend that worked in the old Bob Wards on main. I was also telling him how excited I was that my Dad had drawn a late season Gardiner bull elk permit that year. A short, bearded, round featured dude bellied his way into the conversation had a fit about how unethical it was to shoot a bull on such a permit, and that me showing my elk photos.. was "all that's bad in hunting these days." This same guy posts pictures all over this forum these days, with plenty of elk taken on ichabod crane's ranch, which would be about as challenging to hunt as the heart of the park during September. Always wonder if that guy's bipolar or schizophrenic.

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Rosco, I hate to confuse you with facts but in most states the average success rate for an elk hunter, is an elk every 6 or 7 years. If you have access to private land, live in an area where elk are prevelant or where you can watch and pattern them all year long, you have a great advantage. Most of us don't. I traveled a total of 3400 miles this year, elk hunting, in 4 states. Sure I kill elk but I have the time and a fairly high skill set (this was my 54th season) which helps me be successful. Elk can be easy to kill but for most on "fair chase", do it your self hunts, they can be a challenge. While you may be a skilled hunter your post shows that you are "wet behind the ears" when dealing with people on a public forum.

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You asked me earlier about Whitetails near elgin. Our cow hunt was prior to any Whitetails moving into that country. I am sure they are their now, its good country for them. I now hunt over in the Mt Emily unit. Steep and ugly, like you, most of my elk have come out on my back, but there have been a few lucky ones (for me).

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Originally Posted by Greenhorn
Here's my addition for elk in vehicles.. not whole though, head, front shoulder and loins.. Lee Metcalf Wilderness, Monument area, '94. I was driving US 191 so much that year I bought an old beater Civic for $200. Sold it for $250 in the Crystal Bar that winter.
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Couple years later I was showing photos of an elk I arrowed to a friend that worked in the old Bob Wards on main. I was also telling him how excited I was that my Dad had drawn a late season Gardiner bull elk permit that year. A short, bearded, round featured dude bellied his way into the conversation had a fit about how unethical it was to shoot a bull on such a permit, and that me showing my elk photos.. was "all that's bad in hunting these days." This same guy posts pictures all over this forum these days, with plenty of elk taken on ichabod crane's ranch, which would be about as challenging to hunt as the heart of the park during September. Always wonder if that guy's bipolar or schizophrenic.


You're the only guy I've ever known who's hunting boots were worth more than his vehicle.....grin!


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Originally Posted by shrapnel
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Same old forum bull. I have nothing to prove to any of you.

I hunt for me. Not you guys. You all want to sit around jerking each other off with pictures. Good for you. Dead animals is nothing new to look at.


I have found that pictures show the difference between people that shoot game and those that shoot their mouth off...


Agreed.


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Originally Posted by shrapnel

I have found that pictures show the difference between people that shoot game and those that shoot their mouth off...


To quote the surly Dave Hester - YUUUUUUUUUUPPPPPPP!


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Originally Posted by shrapnel
Originally Posted by Mauser_Hunter
Same old forum bull. I have nothing to prove to any of you.

I hunt for me. Not you guys. You all want to sit around jerking each other off with pictures. Good for you. Dead animals is nothing new to look at.


I have found that pictures show the difference between people that shoot game and those that shoot their mouth off...


Agreed.


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Whatever guys. Think what you want.

I know the truth, and so do those who know me.


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Originally Posted by gotlost
I was going to try this but was told it was not a good Idea.

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Up here moose hunters that go with this tool use vegetable oil for bar oil and that saw is only used for meat. Now days folks are moving to battery powered reciprecating saws. Some carry two or three batteries or use a charger and inverter powered off their ATV or genny.

If I get a Delta bison tag I'll be winching into a trailer, so this is a helpful thread.

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Originally Posted by Greenhorn
which would be about as challenging to hunt as the heart of the park during September.

Speakin' of which, I would have gladly accepted the challenge on this guy last Sept. I think even I could have sealed the deal at the south end of Hayden Valley. grin
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Funny thing, I think I was the only one who saw the bull across the river as everybody else was mesmerized by this ky-o-tee.
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Originally Posted by rondrews
I watched my guide skin my elk, quarter it, take out the loins and backstraps all in a matter of 1/2 hour or so. He never touched the innards. When I saw what was left, I decided I would never gut an animal again. Not worth the trouble for a few pieces of rib bone meat.


It's the only way to go, especially with large animals and if you know you have to pack them anyway. Just don't forget to take out the tenderloins!!


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This is a classic photo taken up near Roundup MT..
Redneck Central of Montana!
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Originally Posted by tipmover
This is a classic photo taken up near Roundup MT..
Redneck Central of Montana!
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+1. I've thrown a couple small TX whitetails in the back of a Ford Escort, but that's classic! grin


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