Cow elk found

[bow4elk]

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[C-Money]

Losing game animals is going to happen to EVERYONE at some point. It is a part of life. It sure dose not make a person feel good, but it happens to the best of us. All we can do is try to prevent it threw knowing our weapon of choice and maybe some education. I don't like it, but it happens!

[brokenbone]

I LOST ONE THIS WEEKEND.  I SHOT A FORK HORN *censored*ETALE AND TRACKED IT TILL 12 IN THE MORNING.  SIX HOURS.  LOST THE BLOOD TRAIL AND GOT LOST.  HAD TO GIVE UP WHEN THE BATTRIES WERE DYING IN THE FLASHLIGHT.  IT HAPPEND TO A DOUBLE LUNG SHOT.  I FOUND IT THE NEXT DAY.  ONLY THE HORNS AND 2 FEET OF HIDE WERE LEFT.  THE COYOTES TOOK CARE OF IT.

[huntnphool]

Did you give them the GPS coordinates so they can go get the collar?

[SunniCutt]

Easy Joe.  I know from personall experience, I hit one at 200 yards with a 7 mm Mag, never found it.  I also hit one at 45 yards with an arrow and it dropped at 135 yards, its shot placement no matter what you hunt with.  However I did go archery for a reason, I seen way too many guys shoot way too far and walk away thinking they missed.

[TheHunt]

I have heard that our Washington Fish and Game have been moving elk from the coast to the east side.  So Roosevelt elk interbreading with Rocky Mountain Elk.

What do you think the antlers will look like?   I personally think this is a big mistake.  Look at the antlers of the elk in the Toutle unit.  THey go not get any bigger then a 5x5. 

[C-Money]

The watershed has Roosevelt blood in it from past re locations. They have some of the biggest bulls in the country. Big body size and big antlers. No problems here if they are relocating.

[bowsandhose]

antler size is more about nutrition and age than genetics + most of our westside elk have rocky mt genes 

as far as loosing animals it sucks    but nothing goes to waste in nature IMO

[funkster]

Just remember hunter's are not the only people that use this site and threads like this give hunter's in general a bad name and fuels the fire of non hunter's. Maybe next time we can start a thread about the importance of shot placement instead of "cow elk found dead". Losing a animal is the worst thing that can happen to a true hunter but the fact is it does and will happen even to the best of hunter's no matter what type of weapon that is used.

[deerslyr]

Howdy lee
Was quite the camp you guys had goin on there and I was glad to be able to hunt with yuh that mornin 
Once i figure it out ill try and post some pics of that buck i got with the muzzleloader
You should post the pics of the "spike" you got on the trail cam