[Lupinus]

Was puttin over to tednugent.com for chits and giggles and find this-

http://tednugent.com/huntseason.shtml

Thats a whole lotta Elk

[Polishrifleman]

WOW:what:

I have several buddies that hunt over in that area. One just had his first kid and his wife isn't letting him out of the house this year. I will make sure to forward this his direction.:neener:

[NRA4LIFE]

http://www.boone-crockett.org/news/trophyWatch.asp?area=news

Internet hoax. The bull was farm raised.

[Lupinus]

I would call it a hoax if photo shopped

Granted farm raised may not be elidgable for the records, but the thing is still huge.

[Polishrifleman]

Cool enough to see something that big, I can't tell if they are the same or not by those two photos but it is still BIG.

[Art Eatman]

There is just enough evidence for a connection between farm-raised deer and elk and Chronic Wasting Disease that I wish these farms were outlawed. From the standpoint of hunter ethics, I don't like the artificiality of releasing farm-raised "El Gigantico" bucks into a native herd to create what to me are fake trophy deer.

A side effect to all this is given in my thread, http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?p=2749488#post2749488

Art

[Lupinus]

Depends on how the far is managed. As was said in the thread you presented Art a farm could mean a three acre pen or a thousand acre managed owned land area with what are granted well fed and kept animals. Depends on who is doing the definition.

[Art Eatman]

Granted, Lupinus. But when I see ads with photos of twenty or more deer in a corral-like feeding pen no bigger than a city house lot, I do find cause for concern. To keep deer penned up in the equivalent of a feedlot is a whole different deal from 1,000-acre pastures.

I've raised a couple of fawns as pets. I know just how tame they can be. Even so, they had the free run of several hundred acres, returning to our house every evening. (Deer like to eat vanilla snaps and cigarettes and honeysuckle and even the gravy from big-brother stew.) Heck, we let them indoors on occasion.

:), Art

[Lupinus]

lol true enough

That picture however didn't seem to be one of those three acre pens :neener: