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A couple video links taken near LaGrande/Imbler, Oregon comming down from the Mt Emily unit onto ag lands. Sent to me by a friend.

These folks have some trouble keeping their fences intact.

Elk crossing bulls

Cows, calves, bulls

That is awesome. Hope there is a herd like that in front of me this fall in Wyoming.

I've never been faced with such during a hunting season, but post season the wife and I once encounterd about a dozen bedded mule deer with everyone being a monster. After looking at them from less than 100 yds for 45+ minutes, I could still not decide which I would have leveled if I'd had a tag in hand.

With a string of elk like that, it would be tough to nail one with the thought that a bigger one might just be coming over the horizon.

Another thought is that with concentrations like that, there's a lot of ground in the area with no elk.

I think you guys out there need to a little big bull killing if you need help id glady come out

I have a good friend that works on a very large ranch here locally, his job is to keep the fences in good shape. He is always talking about how a herd of elk will tear down fences on their way through an area.

Tim

Cool stuff - thanks for sharing.

On the fences.... Cookie got into the middle of about 25 head on her last cow hunt, took out a target animal, and the rest milled for about 5 minutes and went back to feeding. While we enjoyed the view, we eventually agreed that we needed to get to work. As we stood up, the elk took out about about 100 yds of fence. I came back the next day with clips, wire, and a stretcher and put things back together.

With some work projects, I've made the mistake of putting up electic fences and not charging them. Return a few days later, and one finds wire all over the landscape. When they panic, they don't worry much about wire.

That's quite a bunch of elk......

Good thing its not a busy road.....

Go RMEF.............

I first hunted that unit in the 60's. Oregon has done a tremendous job in managing that unit. Road closures, trophy bull management and restricted bull tags have made it 1 of the best trophy bull units in Oregon. Takes 15 plus preference points or more for a big bull tag. 300 plus bulls are common, with up to 340 seen and killed every year. There is not a day that goes by without seeing elk. A game management success story.

Super herd!

maybe someday I'll have enough points or get lucky