Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: Rubenation1981 on August 22, 2018, 08:33:39 PM
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Was poking around on in an old history book and found an account of a 1898 scientific expedition into the Olympic Mountains. The expedition shot 5 bull elk at the headwaters of the Bogachiel River. I thought these two were pretty cool looking set of horns. Not the biggest but unique. First set is 44.5 inches at the widest point and the other is 43 inches.
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Cool!
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Very Cool
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Way cool! That first set has prehistoric look to it!
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Ooooooh ,,,,,, the good old days ,hopefully you made it back home without a bite or decise that wood kill you , but I love the literature in that stuff I've looked up some really neat stuff , I geuss that's one small reason I'm a bit bias in hunting these days , said it before , say it again ,,,,, there's going to come a day where we will all end up on the same game trail and stair at each other and break into tears cuz it's time to admit it's over , road closures , fires , constant regulation restrictions , natural and ecological decease ,idiots , man's desire , constant huntable land loss and that darn global warming will put us all around the same camp fire wondering how were gonna hunt that darn bird that's a cross between a turkey and a chicken cuz it will be the only perfect meat left to eat !! ??
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Surprising was the accounts that the elk we're so scarce in the region. I think we all think of those times as the golden age but that was the same time as susistance and market hunting.
Certainly some hard earned animals. The expedition also had a pack horse fall 50feet down a ravine! Tough going.
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The commercial hunters nearly wiped them out for the ivories to go on pocketwatches and meat to sell to the lumbermills/logging camps.
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very cool. some sweet crowning on those bottom two.
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:tup:
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Super cool.
