Elk

[bentstick]

No tags
But I did get invited to Mannitoba on a Goose/Duck hunt that I been waiting for. Going fishing Fri. thru next Wed at family cabin in Ontario kind of nice family trip fishing on a 8000 acre lake and only 2 other cabins on. Peace, quite, and no work.

[Suburban Guy]

Kill a big one man, I am hoping for a pig myself, which is a different part of the country I bet...

[Suburban Guy]

We also have pigs I got my first last year after 3 years of hunting.

Nothing better!!! Good eats?

[bentstick]

Rockchucker
R you down in the southwest? Up here in the Midwest we have a elk season, but I have applied for 22 yrs still haven't received a tag. Deer is over the counter but with close to 800,000 hunters its a mad house. I have went pig hunting shot 2 with bow 1 284 lbs, 1 302 lbs, hams were awesome in the smoke house. Good luck and shoot straight.

[rubber duck]

You should come out to my neck of the woods. I destroyed a cabover by hitting a hog, they're all over up here. I've taken a lot of pigs and that was the biggest one I've ever seen.

If I could ever pull an elk tag I would probably go hunting again.

[wildrover]

I put in for an extra white tail doe tag and didn't draw. I was bummed. So i'll just fill my one white tail tag this fall. I'll work up to Elk one of these years

[Tater]

White tail is all we have around here . There is no limit on does however so you can fill freezer up if you like deer meat .I also process my own.Had mix of deer and elk chili last night for supper.

[cob]

I just found out I drew a tule elk hunt. For this particular hunt there is only 5 tags so I feel really lucky, I also drew my late season deer so this should be a good meat year. Anyone else hunt draw any good tags?

good luck with your hunt.

White tail is all we have around here . There is no limit on does however so you can fill freezer up if you like deer meat .I also process my own.Had mix of deer and elk chili last night for supper.

elk have been reintroduced to kentucky, north carolina, and tennessee, and have migrated to virginia, and west virginia. coming to a forest near you soon.

i have hunted rockey mountain and roosevelt elk almost all my life, from teen age till a while after the reintroduction of the wolf. i havn't hunted elk since '99 now. cob.

[ArkyJ]

Ah, yes. We journey back 48 years to when I really thought that boys might change me. To the Cascades Mt's around Rimrock Lake in Washington State.

My boyfriend had set me down, by a stump, with rifle in hand, as he wandered off to hunt elk.

Since we ain't here to write a the novel "High Hunt" by David Eddings, I'll cut to the chase or hunt.

I sit by my stump, not bored, perhaps, pissed is more the correct word. Up the draw I hear a crashing of brush and look up to see this elk looking elephant
come crashing down the draw toward me. I see his horns layed back over his back as he trouts toward me. I raise my rifle and an indused state of buck fever. I sight and shoot. I see dust arise from his shoulder, on he trots. I shoot again, on he trots. I shoot again, he hunches as I hit him. The elk is now quartering away from me and I shoot again. The elk stops.

With shaky hands I manage to get two rounds into the rifle as I begain walking toward the elk, keeping a large tree between me and him. At 20 feet I stop, lean the rifle on the between me and him tree and aim and shoot at the backbone in the elk's neck. As the bullet stricks, the elks shakes his head but, remains standing.

Finally, I say "Fuck This". Do a no no and fire my last bullet into the ear of this elk.

The elk folds and falls to the ground. I go up to the elk after watching him for about 10 minutes. His eyes are open, he ain't breathing. I look at my shots and see that I have hit it 6 out of 7 shots and see that shot number 4 has blown of the elks balls. No wonder it stopped in it's tracks. To bad to be a boy elk. If you had been a girl. I would have missed shot number 4. LOL!!!

My "boyfriend" earlier had told me. "You shot it, you gut it." I could go into what I really thing about boys but, we're here shooting elk instead. So... I draw my knife and grab ahold of one of the back legs of the elk and try to roll it onto it's back. This thing don't move!

Finally, I get the elk into a somewhat state of a place I can go to work with my knife. I slit it's neck. I make an opening for me to get to the guts and while I'am half way up this elk's ass, I hear someone say. "That elk is mine". HUH!!! What the f***??? Are you talking about? I back out of the elk, covered with blood from my hips to my head, to see a total stranger with his gun kinda pointed in my direction. Say, "I shot the elk, up the draw, about a quarter of a mile away. It's mine".

We back and forth on as how I only see 6 holes in this elk and I plan on keeping it. Finally my boyfriend shows up and my elk stealing stranger sees the light and walks off.

I finish gutting this elk. With the help of the rest of the hunting party, we get the elk loaded up on a flat bed pickup. We take it to the ranger station to check it in and the Rangers weigh it. 1405 pounds. One grabs a tape measure and tells me. "You missed Boone and Crocket by 5 points." They checked the teeth and say that the elk is about 7 years old.

After a couple of days of ageing the meat, a slice is cut off and fried. People, this is the toughest chunck of meat I have ever tried to chew on. It is agreed that all the elk must be ground into elkburger and it was. All got a share.

ArkyJ's first and last elk hunt.

[Dnderhead]

best way i know of cooking wild meat is slow cooked.low temperature for a long time.
this can be a crock pot, smoker,or even a oven,but let me say most home ovens dont
go low enough for this,you need to have the oven/temperature set at what you want the internal
temperature.caning is another good way.

[Tater]

Figure that's a matter of the cut of meat regardless of the critter it came from.

[LWTCS]

Figure that's a matter of the cut of meat regardless of the critter it came from.

+1

[theholymackerel]

I live in northern New Mexico, near the Colorado border.

We have MANY more elk here than people. I like it that way.

[OlympicMtDoo]

Very true. Also the butchering technic as big butchers use bandsaws and utter disregard to what they're doing just to get the job done. Lots of game taste comes from bone and marrow, if you avoid marrow contaminate in the meat it tempers the flavor.


You hit this one on the head Rockchucker, a lot of folks don't know this but it is oh so true, exactly why I cut all my own game.

[OlympicMtDoo]

When is opening day, Rockchucker? Let us know how you do.

[OlympicMtDoo]

Good Luck, you must be in CA after tule Elk?

[OlympicMtDoo]

Are we frying up fresh heart yet?

[OlympicMtDoo]

HEY!! allright good job and continued success, I'll be getting out in a week or so not sure when the opener is exactly this year been too damn busy this year.

[bentstick]

Nice job rockchucker . How big ? Guess it don't matter meat in freezer is always good, been water fowling here, 43 geese so far and 15 ducks now it warmed up again time to set for deer. good luck to all hunters make your season well and enjoy friends, homemade spirits, and the fruits of nature. Be safe and shoot straight.

[OlympicMtDoo]

Making my mouth water Rockchucker, I'm heading out Sat morning for deer local.

[OlympicMtDoo]

Yep...Black Tail