Hunting.

0patience
0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
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There was a thread somewhere, but the search brought up so much, that I said the hell with it and am starting a new thread.

Anyways..........
My nephew got his little elk today.
This was on the bow hunt. Rifle is later in the year.
Not a bad spread on it.


In Fumo Pax
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

Wylaff said:
Atmospheric pressure and crap.

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  • Echambers
    Echambers Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Damn! That is a nice elk!
    -- "There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go poke it with a stick."
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,504 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That thing is huge, how do you get that home? 
  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,190 ✭✭✭✭✭
    silvermouse said:
    That thing is huge, how do you get that home? 

    In pieces.  Great elk.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • 0patience
    0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    silvermouse said:
    That thing is huge, how do you get that home? 
    Yep. Usually have to quarter them and pack them out.
    But it's not an easy task. Especially if it's been shot in a gully or ravine.
    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • Usaf06
    Usaf06 Posts: 11,889 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Elk is some of the best meat I've had. 
    "I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
    -- Winston Churchill

    "LET'S GO FRANCIS"     Peter

  • TNBigfoot68
    TNBigfoot68 Posts: 2,812 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice one, those guys are massive.
    I was born a fool, and just got bigger!
  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    After you’ve eaten elk you’ll throw rocks at beef.....  🤓
  • Diver43
    Diver43 Posts: 2,213 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congratulations to your  nephew.  That is quite an accomplishment 
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  • 0patience
    0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Diver43 said:
    Congratulations to your  nephew.  That is quite an accomplishment 
    He usually gets his elk when he gets a tag.
    The last couple years have been smaller elk. 
    This one is a pretty decent size.

    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,190 ✭✭✭✭✭
    jlmarta said:
    After you’ve eaten elk you’ll throw rocks at beef.....  🤓
    Same with bison.  Good eatin'.  I wish we had Elk in New England.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • deadman
    deadman Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 2019
    ShawnOL said:
    jlmarta said:
    After you’ve eaten elk you’ll throw rocks at beef.....  🤓
    Same with bison.  Good eatin'.  I wish we had Elk in New England.
    Give them time. My father in law lives in the Va mountains. A few years ago the government released a bunch of elk there. Then they released a bunch of wolves, I guess to eat the elk IDK 🤷🏻‍♂️
  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ShawnOL said:
    jlmarta said:
    After you’ve eaten elk you’ll throw rocks at beef.....  🤓
    Same with bison.  Good eatin'.  I wish we had Elk in New England.
    I’ve tried bison and don’t understand what the hype is about them. Is it because they’re lower in fat or what?  

    The bison I ate didn’t have much fat and it was tougher’n shoe leather. And I bought it from a ranch that only raises bison....

    Go figure..... 😎
  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,190 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I had a thick bison steak in Cody, Wyoming a few years back.  Excellent.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • Stubble
    Stubble Posts: 10,187 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If you ever have a chance to try antelope, do it.  It's amazing.
    Hey, you gonna eat the rest of that corndog?
  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    peter4jc said:
    That elk is too big.  I would shoot smaller ones that are easier to carry.  Plus, if you got two half-size ones instead of one big sucker, you'd have twice as much fun killing them.
    @peter4jc

    I’m not so sure about that - at least the part about a half-size one being easier to carry (or drag)...  the ugly little forked-horn elk I got back in ‘81 only weighed about 400 lbs on the hoof and I only had about a half mile or so to drag it but it seemed more like 20 miles...... and it was fairly level terrain.....  🤠
  • 0patience
    0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This one probably weighed between 800-1000 pounds. 
    Like Marty said, small ones are still 400-600 pounds.
    Oregon has tag drawings in certain areas, so a person might not even get a tag for one kill. 

    And in the Clatsop County area, none of the elk are small. 
    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • Captain_Call
    Captain_Call Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Stubble said:
    If you ever have a chance to try antelope, do it.  It's amazing.
    We must have different antelope. I'd barely consider them good enough for coyote bait.
  • Stubble
    Stubble Posts: 10,187 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Captain_Call said:
    Stubble said:
    If you ever have a chance to try antelope, do it.  It's amazing.
    We must have different antelope. I'd barely consider them good enough for coyote bait.
    That's sad.....
    Hey, you gonna eat the rest of that corndog?

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