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While slogging up a grade, we saw about 75 elk grazing. Oddly, they were among a bunch of goats. I get out in remote places quite often & I never saw that before. You hardly ever see goats & deer together let alone goats & elk.

This was about 8 miles N of Bill, east of Hwy 59. A few spikes but no big boys. Saw a couple 6x bulls at Shawnee Jct just after sunset. SW


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thats a lot of open real estate

Thanks for the pics Hogger.
Yeah that is very unusual to see them together. More so to see the Elk down low like that in the flat land.
84 was the first time we seen an Elk on the ranch, and also the last time. It was a cow with a calf and the calf was fairly small, it had a really swollen front leg (maybe snake bitten) and not moving around to well.
Anyway when the cow left it the boys (my nephews) picked it up and brought into camp, why I don't know. Wasn't anything we could do for the little guy. We made them put him back and leave him alone, the mother eventually came back and the hung around for about 4 days. I've got some pictures somewhere of the boys and the calf.
Oh and there was a marathon ass chewing that went on after the boys put the calf back about leaving wild life alone, they aren't pets, etc.

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seems when we are young we want to help/rescue , the knowledge to know when you can make a difference and when its best to leave nature alone is a learned experience , some folks never quite catch on to that difference - i call them liberals or socialists these days ,

but when we were young , we too sometimes thought that way , granted when we were very young , but there was a day .......... forget who said it ...that youth think with their heart and with age they use their brain ,

Amen Brother Mike.
We weren't to hard on them. Just worried the cow would come back and stomp their dumb a**, or reject the calf.
To me it looked like a snake bite. Any way it seemed to getting along okay by the time we left to come home.

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"Like a tank with it's tracks blown off, my turret still swivels and my cannon fires, so whenever the fight kicks off, I'll likely live or die right there, where the fight begins and ends"
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very real possibility if she hot mad enough , no sense irritating mom ,

i realize there are a lot of us of this age that did not wear our heart on our sleeve for long - the times did not allow it , i do not even pretend to understand how quickly some "grew up" and out of the liberal line of thinking , i do recall my own and know it ended at an early age far before those of today ,

I took baby bloodhound out for our morning hike & saw 6 mulies not far from the road - 5 does and bucky seen here.

He must sense season is near - archery season starts tomorrow. Instead of running away, he squatted down in thick brush. The does bounced away. I've seen really big bucks do that. They also walk around with their head down during season.

The sun wasn't up when I shot the pics so I really had to mess around editing so you can see him.

A nice 4 point "freezer buck"! I might have to download a permit this year!

And turks... always turks. Around here, if you have a permit & don't get a turk, you are either legally blind or stayed home. SW


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so muck open space that still offers 'hide' that i would not have imagined , obviously never hunted there , im more of an upland bird guy when i hunt , beautiful area , you are blessed ,

Saw moose tracks today & not the ice cream flavor. I was hopping for a pic but no dice - this is as close as I got. SW


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There was a Moose in the city last week, first spotted in the Red River near Crescent Drive park. He showed up again the day after at the road into the Bombers/Roughriders football game. Police had DNR come out to tranquilize and relocate it. Poor moose didn't survive it~ the 3 tranquilizer shots were a bit too much after it's struggles in the river muck the day before.

Odd Moose are this far south, and even odder they are ending up in Nebraska. Maybe they developed a taste for corn

Regards,

Doc Sharptail

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