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Offline vandeman17

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Colockum elk
« on: January 20, 2011, 04:17:25 PM »
I was driving home from duck hunting in the Columbia basin last weekend and right below the windfarm as I was climbing up the hill out of Vantage going westbound there was a herd of 50-100 elk about 150 yards from the freeway. It was a pretty cool sight but the crazy part was that I had a good 5-10 seconds to see them as I drove and couldn't put a set of horns on a single elk. Not one!  >:( I started to think that they might have dropped their horns already but then realized it is only January so that wasn't the case...  :tdown:
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Re: Colockum elk
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2011, 04:23:41 PM »
This time of the year bulls are by themselves or with other bulls, and cows with cows, so don't be discouraged only seeing cows.
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Re: Colockum elk
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2011, 04:25:22 PM »
May dad saw a nice bull last weekend just north of I-90 by Ryegrass (he saw it from I-90).
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Re: Colockum elk
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2011, 04:26:49 PM »
Quote from: Bigtine96 on January 20, 2011, 04:23:41 PM
This time of the year bulls are by themselves or with other bulls, and cows with cows, so don't be discouraged only seeing cows.

I agree and thought about that and have my fingers crossed that the big boys are off on their own but that is a whole other topic in itself.  :rolleyes:
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Re: Colockum elk
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2011, 04:43:49 PM »
There hasn't been a bull with that group all winter the bull are in a little honey hole ;)
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Re: Colockum elk
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2011, 05:35:41 PM »
Saw the same herd last week.  There was a raghorn bull and a spike with them then, but only those two.  Like was said earlier, the bulls will be all bachelored up together somewhere.
I also drove through Hanford the same day and saw that herd.  Had to be over 1,000 elk.  Only saw about 7 bulls. All small raghorns and spikes.  Most of the raghorns were busted up too.
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Re: Colockum elk
« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2011, 06:17:17 PM »
No there were not any bulls because there are no bulls in the Colockum.  Usually around August any bulls in the Colockum tend to migrate to the Blues.  See Pathfinder you have finally seen the truth for yourself.  You can trust me, I'm an officer and therefore would never lie.  8)
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Re: Colockum elk
« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2011, 07:09:34 AM »
Quote from: colockumelk on January 21, 2011, 06:17:17 PM
No there were not any bulls because there are no bulls in the Colockum.  Usually around August any bulls in the Colockum tend to migrate to the Blues.  See Pathfinder you have finally seen the truth for yourself.  You can trust me, I'm an officer and therefore would never lie.  8)

 :rolleyes: :chuckle: :chuckle:

They couldn't migrate to the Blues, because Bigfoot would eat them.  Bigfoot has eaten ALL of the elk in the Blues, bulls, cows, calves....

...don't make me show the pictures... :nono:
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Re: Colockum elk
« Reply #8 on: January 22, 2011, 08:05:14 AM »
Yeah and because you Walls Walla pukes did such a poor job with controlling your big foot population they spread to the Colockum and ate all our elk.
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Re: Colockum elk
« Reply #9 on: January 22, 2011, 08:24:50 AM »
OK Mr. Expert, YOU try coming down here and "controlling" the Bfoot population. :bdid:  This is a picture of the last researcher that tried that...  Poor *censored* stopped to take a grumpy in front of one of my trail cams.  Never saw it coming.... :(

Honestly, not only is in unproductive to come down here and try to hunt elk, it is now so dangerous that you shouldn't even get out of your truck....
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Re: Colockum elk
« Reply #10 on: January 22, 2011, 02:30:55 PM »
I knoew there were "white-tail" in the area  :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
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Re: Colockum elk
« Reply #11 on: February 01, 2011, 07:03:21 AM »
Quote from: Pathfinder101 on January 22, 2011, 08:24:50 AM
OK Mr. Expert, YOU try coming down here and "controlling" the Bfoot population. :bdid:  This is a picture of the last researcher that tried that...  Poor *censored* stopped to take a grumpy in front of one of my trail cams.  Never saw it coming.... :(

Honestly, not only is in unproductive to come down here and try to hunt elk, it is now so dangerous that you shouldn't even get out of your truck....

WOW!!!    :o  first pic i have ever seen of one.. I can feel them watching me when I do that at night... NOW I KNOW. Its not my imagination
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Re: Colockum elk
« Reply #12 on: February 01, 2011, 08:07:35 AM »
Sasquatch is huntin for them there finless cornback rattlers!!
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Re: Colockum elk
« Reply #13 on: February 01, 2011, 01:15:44 PM »
 :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
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Re: Colockum elk
« Reply #14 on: February 01, 2011, 02:36:35 PM »
thats a long trip for the bulls to go all the way over there. i seen alot of bulls this year in the colokum.
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