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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: Sumpnneedskillin on June 21, 2011, 09:05:32 AM

Title: Rangers kill aggressive elk in Hoh Rain Forest
Post by: Sumpnneedskillin on June 21, 2011, 09:05:32 AM: "Park rangers have fatally shot an elk that had been damaging tents and charging at patrol cars around the Hoh Rain Forest"

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/124256114.html#13086722441981&if_height=279 (http://www.komonews.com/news/local/124256114.html#13086722441981&if_height=279)
Title: Re: Rangers kill aggressive elk in Hoh Rain Forest
Post by: Huntbear on June 21, 2011, 09:09:33 AM: Paint Markings????? :dunno: :dunno:
Title: Re: Rangers kill aggressive elk in Hoh Rain Forest
Post by: Woodchuck on June 21, 2011, 09:35:23 AM: So the elk was a painter, whats wrong with that? :chuckle:
Title: Re: Rangers kill aggressive elk in Hoh Rain Forest
Post by: Huntbear on June 21, 2011, 09:44:29 AM: Just making sure the dumb ass rangers did not shoot a horse and call it an elk. :rolleyes: :o :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Rangers kill aggressive elk in Hoh Rain Forest
Post by: Woodchuck on June 21, 2011, 09:47:31 AM: well.............I have heard of stranger things
Title: Re: Rangers kill aggressive elk in Hoh Rain Forest
Post by: pianoman9701 on June 21, 2011, 09:48:02 AM: Sounds like maybe a mother's aggression.
Title: Re: Rangers kill aggressive elk in Hoh Rain Forest
Post by: Huntbear on June 21, 2011, 09:54:55 AM: Quote from: Woodchuck on June 21, 2011, 09:47:31 AM
well.............I have heard of stranger things

Yea like hunters shooting a mule, thinking it was a cow elk???????? :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Rangers kill aggressive elk in Hoh Rain Forest
Post by: TheHunt on June 21, 2011, 09:58:27 AM: She got into someone's pot stash...

I wonder if her calf was near by and she was over protective... I am assuming the Rangers looked for a calf.
Title: Re: Rangers kill aggressive elk in Hoh Rain Forest
Post by: Woodchuck on June 21, 2011, 10:00:26 AM: Someday I will tell you a funny story about a moose that was killed in Minnesota and was offered up as an entry into the local big buck contest because "it is a member of the deer family" :tup:
Title: Re: Rangers kill aggressive elk in Hoh Rain Forest
Post by: Sumpnneedskillin on June 21, 2011, 10:06:15 AM: Quote from: pianoman9701 on June 21, 2011, 09:48:02 AM
Sounds like maybe a mother's aggression.

That's what I was thinking when I read the story.

Quote from: TheHunt on June 21, 2011, 09:58:27 AM
She got into someone's pot stash...

I wonder if her calf was near by and she was over protective... I am assuming the Rangers looked for a calf.

I hope so but you never know.
Title: Re: Rangers kill aggressive elk in Hoh Rain Forest
Post by: HOYT6.0 on June 21, 2011, 10:11:44 AM: Are they sure it was a Elk and not a MT. Goat... :chuckle:
Title: Re: Rangers kill aggressive elk in Hoh Rain Forest
Post by: pianoman9701 on June 21, 2011, 10:22:59 AM: I misread it to read "Rangers kill aggressive Ho in Elk Forest". I guess that's my faux pas.
Title: Re: Rangers kill aggressive elk in Hoh Rain Forest
Post by: JimmyHoffa on June 21, 2011, 10:28:08 AM: Quote from: pianoman9701 on June 21, 2011, 09:48:02 AM
Sounds like maybe a mother's aggression.
This is what I heard from someone that knew people being charged. Supposedly the elk had a calf that she was keeping a few feet from the trail. Then all the hikers would cruise by and try to take pictures. What I heard was that the elk would lay down next to the trail and when people got to close she would get up and stomp her hooves. Then when they would try to get closer she would charge (bluff), and then go back to the calf. Although maybe it ate a magic mushroom...about two years ago there were two young bulls in the same area that would snort and bluff charge people in the summer. They wandered off during the rut.
Title: Re: Rangers kill aggressive elk in Hoh Rain Forest
Post by: PlateauNDN on June 21, 2011, 10:30:12 AM: Quote from: pianoman9701 on June 21, 2011, 10:22:59 AM
I misread it to read "Rangers kill aggressive Ho in Elk Forest". I guess that's my faux pas.

:DOH: :lol4: :lol4: :lol4:
Title: Re: Rangers kill aggressive elk in Hoh Rain Forest
Post by: elkinrutdrivemenuts on June 21, 2011, 10:37:11 AM: Idiots, do they shoot every bison that charges a tourist who gets to close in yellowstone?! They are wild animals, keep your distance! I understand bears or cougars, but really, you has to shoot an elk?!
Title: Re: Rangers kill aggressive elk in Hoh Rain Forest
Post by: huntnfmly on June 21, 2011, 06:45:39 PM: Quote from: elkinrutdrivemenuts on June 21, 2011, 10:37:11 AM
Idiots, do they shoot every bison that charges a tourist who gets to close in yellowstone?! They are wild animals, keep your distance! I understand bears or cougars, but really, you has to shoot an elk?!
:yeah:
Quote from: Huntbear on June 21, 2011, 09:44:29 AM
Just making sure the dumb ass rangers did not shoot a horse and call it an elk. :rolleyes: :o :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
thats why they shot it with a paint ball first :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Rangers kill aggressive elk in Hoh Rain Forest
Post by: elkinrutdrivemenuts on June 21, 2011, 07:27:58 PM: So if we get to close to a bull elk in spike only areas and we feel threatened can we shoot in self defense!? I'm down ; )