600 elk shot in Winston cause of hoof rot?

[boomstick]

if you look at a 30-06 over all length is 3.340  300 win mag 3.340 300 weatherby 3.550   the track is 3/4 of an inch longer than the 30-06 pictures sometime look deceiving

[Old Man Yager]

freeze and thaw, freeze and thaw.......again, and again........

Thats how yote tracks turn into wolf tracks and bobcat tracks turn into lion tracks........

I'm with you, that pick looks like it melted out , and got snowed in again. I wasn't there and I'm not an expert, just looks like thats what might make it look like a bigger track.

[scout/sniper]

The WDFW did kill a few elk for their study and it was in the news:

In March, WDFW killed 12 elk in Southwest Washington and four from east of the mountains and sent tissue samples to several laboratories across the U.S. for analysis. Some of it went to the University of Liverpool, England, because researchers there have experience with hoof rot in domesticated sheep.

This summer, the agency may collect calves that are only a few months old to see whether hoof rot is passed along from cows to calves.

http://www.columbian.com/news/2013/jun/10/no-answers-yet-southwest-washington-elk-hoof-rot/

This would be a positive contribution in a thread dedicated to hoof rot.