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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: jdb on July 19, 2009, 06:17:01 PM

Title: elk on the beach?
Post by: jdb on July 19, 2009, 06:17:01 PM: anyone ever seen elk on long beach? I was walking the beach early thursday morning and would swear I saw elk tracks?
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Post by: SkookumHntr on July 19, 2009, 06:45:15 PM: ---I wouldnt doubt it, there on the peninsula for sure! seen um by the golfcourse before.
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Post by: rose-n-arrows on July 19, 2009, 07:09:47 PM: Yes. I live in Long Beach and saw two nice bulls on the beach last year by Chautaqua Lodge. They weren't by the surf, but in the beach grass.
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Post by: vfilbert on July 19, 2009, 08:43:59 PM: down in oregon vacationing near gearhart i saw elk on the beach, crazy sight
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Post by: Huntbear on July 19, 2009, 09:04:19 PM: I have seen elk on the beach at Lincoln City many times. It is kind of like wow, until you see them a few times, playin in the surf.
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Post by: Matt on July 20, 2009, 02:08:01 PM: I see deer on the beach all the time. They go down and lick the rocks at low tide.
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Post by: workstohunt on July 20, 2009, 02:38:13 PM: Yes, my Wife and I were at the end of Long Beach last year hiking and ran into about ten elk.
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Post by: Curly on July 20, 2009, 02:41:59 PM: Lots of bears at Long Beach too.
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Post by: zackmioli on July 20, 2009, 09:28:10 PM: do you guys see these critters on the north or south end of long beach? im looking at google earth just trying to figure out where theyd be!
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Post by: MountainWalk on July 21, 2009, 01:05:12 PM: In Sequim, I have seen four bull elk swimming single file out in the salt water, a few miles east ot the spit. Pretty wild.
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Post by: SkookumHntr on July 21, 2009, 02:12:35 PM: Quote from: zackmioli on July 20, 2009, 09:28:10 PM
do you guys see these critters on the north or south end of long beach? im looking at google earth just trying to figure out where theyd be!
--The bears are all over all the way to the end, the elk use to be all over but probably south of klipsen now but you never know, I wouldnt doubt people seeing them all the way to the end!
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Post by: zackmioli on July 21, 2009, 02:37:08 PM: Quote from: SkookumHntr on July 21, 2009, 02:12:35 PM
Quote from: zackmioli on July 20, 2009, 09:28:10 PM
do you guys see these critters on the north or south end of long beach? im looking at google earth just trying to figure out where theyd be!
--The bears are all over all the way to the end, the elk use to be all over but probably south of klipsen now but you never know, I wouldnt doubt people seeing them all the way to the end!
thanks, thats the area that looked to most likely on the maps. :hello: