Saw This Guy Yesterday at about 50'

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I drove thru Estes Park from the west and turned around and drove back thru it last summer. Elk everywhere and quite a few moose also. They are SO WILD. :what: People out walking amongst the elk taking pictures and being ignored by the animals. I didn't see anyone attempt to get friendly with the moose but they were close to the road and paid no attention to their admirers, even those with calves. I got a bunch of great pictures but used the zoom feature on my camera.

Beautiful country as is a lot of Colorado. Nice place to visit in the summer but too cold and too much snow for this hot country feller.

I went back this summer and saw some different country. Hope to get back next year and see Uray and some of the surrounding areas.
 
I love watching them run in Estes durring the mating season, kinda cool to watch from a distance. Definately taking pics next time!
 
They like to congregate in Moraine Valley inside RMNP right about now. They come down right around evening and you can get on some rocks and watch the bulls fight. I’ve been there when there was a hundred or so all together in this valley with the bulls bugling and bashing horns together – very cool stuff.
 
None in Morain Valley on Sunday but these were on the grounds of the local high school right near downtown.

Cheers,

FH
 
One thing that lowlands folks learn the hard way when hunting in the high country: When you go from an elevation of maybe 300 feet on up to 9,000 or 10,000, "There ain't any air in the air up there." Heart-attack City.
 
Youi better believe it. Fortunately, it isn't so bad if you live above a thousand feet -- but it's still pretty tough. As I have said before, elk hunting is the hardest work you will ever do.
 
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Isn't that about as challenging as shooting a cow or a horse??

I take it you've never killed an elk.
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I bet he's never even killed a horse.
 
I hunt surrounded by 3 horse farms and one cow farm. I pray everytime I go out that I see an untagged cow on my side of the fence......God do I pray.
 
Well, if you can shoot it with a camera....

/Is that picture on a golf course? perhaps a 3-wood and a solid 1.68".

//all kidding aside, I developed a "never shoot an elk if you're more than a mile from the road" rule while living in Idaho.
 
Heh. I don't like shooting ANYTHING out of sight of the road. However, that usually means not shooting anything. So, I do like everybody else. Go where the animals are, try my best to bag one, then swear like a sailor when I have to pack it out.

Maybe that's why I enjoy small game so much. Stuff a half dozen squirrels or rabbits in your bag and stroll home. Mo' Betta' than hauling meat down a mountain while trying to convince yourself you're not actually dying. Yet.
 
I pray everytime I go out that I see an untagged cow on my side of the fence......God do I pray.
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Unless South Dakota law is drastically different than VA law....shooting a cow, tagged or not, will result in serious issues. Just because an animal escapes an enclosure, doesn't make it fair game to be shot in any jurisdiction i'm aware of. I hope the post was in jest.
 
big difference between shooting something and killing it. Shooting it isn't really the hard part. Finding it? That's can be a challenge. Hitting it hard and actually killing it is another thing. Hauling it out after? That's hard work.
 
Norm Strung penned an article in the October 1984 edition of Field & Stream magazine entitled "The Best Place to Shoot a Moose". In his estimation, the best place to shoot a moose was in close proximity to a pick up truck.
 
:D

It's in an ATV-allowed recovery area, so as long as I'm not too high up for the wheels to go ...

In which case, I may be calling the pack mules. I may be crazy enough to go up there, but I don't think I'm up for the coronary.
 
Let us know what it was like when you get back.

Here in Arkansas, I live above a thousand feet, which makes a big difference when going to higher altitudes. And I train for elk season by hiking 7 miles every morning, with over 1,200 feet of altitude change total.

It kicks my butt -- but I survive when I get to the Rockies.
 
I live and work between 4700 and 5500 ft. I go up as high as I can, as often as I can, but had some pretty nasty bug last week, and it screwed up my training schedule.

Gonna go hike this evening, I think. And load some more rifle rounds.

I will definitely let you know how it goes.
 
The higher you live, the better.

I had a friend who pointed out that for the Mexico City Olympics, some competitors trained at high altitudes, "and it didn't do anything for them."

Well, yeah. A fully-trained olympic athlete is not going to see much of an improvement, no matter what he adds to his routine. But the average guy, who is about 20% conditioned, will see a big difference from prolonged training at altitude.
 
Gentlemen,

That is a 7x7 you don't even need to count each point when looking at an elk, if he has sword points he has at least four on each side. So all you need to do is count the remaining tines behind the swords and he has an obvious three behind each sword.

I hate to tell you this but.. While he is a big bodied bull he's young and wouldn't score all that great, he's lacking tine and beam length as well as mass. Decent fronts, weak backs.:)

Would I shoot him on public land in an over the counter area ? YOU BET I WOULD! But I would NOT shoot that bull in a prime area such as unit 2-201 under any circumstances.
 
Gentlemen,

That is a 7x7 you don't even need to count each point when looking at an elk, if he has sword points he has at least four on each side. So all you need to do is count the remaining tines behind the swords and he has an obvious three behind each sword.

I hate to tell you this but.. While he is a big bodied bull he's young and wouldn't score all that great, he's lacking tine and beam length as well as mass. Decent fronts, weak backs.

Would I shoot him on public land in an over the counter area ? YOU BET I WOULD! But I would NOT shoot that bull in a prime area such as unit 2-201 under any circumstances.
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On the other hand, I was bow-hunting many years ago on the military reservation at Fort Benning, Georgia. I had set up a stand, and walked into the area dragging a cloth soaked with scent.

After I'd been in the stand a while, a little doe came right up to the cloth, which was lying under the stand and wouldn't leave.

And then a voice from On High said to me, "This is the deer I sent you." TWANG!:p
 
Yep, you take what you take for your own reasons when hunting!:)
 
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