ELK FIGHT!

Elk_Nuts · Feb 8, 2007

Was sent these pics in a email.

CAelknuts · Feb 8, 2007

Those are incredible, thanks for sharing. Pretty amazing how violent they can be.

Flatlandr · Feb 8, 2007

Awesome pics!! Thanks for sharing. Do you know the whole story? Are these wild Elk or fenced?

Crunchy · Feb 9, 2007

A friend of mine showed me those about two weeks ago. The problem was he did not know where they originated from. Do you have any ideas?

Lien2 · Feb 9, 2007

WOW! That is awesome.
Whoever took those pics has some guts as well.

Lien2

Elk_Nuts · Feb 9, 2007

I didn't get a story with the pictures. I will try to get one. The two Bulls don't have the typical characteristics of penned bulls, but who knows. I would think that if they were penned someone would have tried to stop them before one was dead.

duckslayer · Feb 9, 2007

I got this same email and this is what it said I don't know that it is true but this is the explination I got.

"These Elk were observed in the Sinkyone wilderness.
The local Game Warden got the photos from a hiker who was visiting
the area, and that is what he encountered. Bulls will fight to the death
to claim a Harem."

fletch · Feb 9, 2007

Looks like Colonel six point in the meadow with the antler tip is your culprit!

Zigga · Feb 9, 2007

Wilderness??

Hiker??

Looks more like somebody's yard/driveway. I got the pics a few weeks ago but didn't know the details either. Cool pics and I'll bet they are wild elk.

Elk_Nuts · Feb 9, 2007

So I was thinking, If you could catch the winner, then train him. Would it be unethical to use him to hunt Elk? I mean come on he could sneek right up to a big herd bull gouge him in the lungs, and your eaten elk steaks. Think about the possibilities here.

Bozeman · Feb 9, 2007

That's definatly a yard they are in.

brushstomper · Feb 9, 2007

Maybe the hiker lived in the house that the driveway led to in the first picture? It looks like someones front yard, but man what a site that must have been. Do you think the elk is alive in any of the pictures? After looking at them again I am not sure. That is absolutely amazing though, I wonder what the tree huggers have to say about that? Once in a lifetime experience for sure. I wonder how long it lasted? Great pics.

Brushstomper

rost495 · Feb 10, 2007

Could be the "dead" one was shot first, and the other bull came along?? Much like turkeys.

Or could be real.

Comments about house area could be correct, but could be a cabin or house of caretaker of the area also, can't prove private or wilderness for sure.

jeff

boneaddict · Feb 10, 2007

The first time I have seen them. Cool pics!
I found a big bull that was killed in a fight. He took one to the jugular. The whole area was torn up. They really went at it.

Cali4x4 · Feb 14, 2007

I have been to the Sinkyone Wilderness area. It looks like the area. And would be in a state park in CA. A "No Hunting" area.

B_F_E · Feb 14, 2007

Kind of similar to when pissed off MM'ers go up to Altamont, then get it handed to them

peanut · Feb 14, 2007

A co-worker showed me these pictures a couple of weeks ago. He said a relative took the pictures just west of Denver in the foothills. The pictures look right for that area.
peanut

Elk_Nuts · Feb 14, 2007

I was told by the sender that they are in Montana. Who knows!

Idahoelk · Feb 14, 2007

WOW!! That is Crazy. I think he made his point. Looks like he busted that bulls antler off while he was moppin up the yard with that dead one. Must mave taken some major force.

Nelly · Feb 15, 2007

I heard they were from Cali. as well.
In pic 9 you see his broken antler in the back round, Is that blood in the center???? Do antlers have some kind of calicuim and blood mixture in them until they shed... I guess what I'm trying to say is do they look like that if you were to just break it off??

CW

canhunter · Feb 15, 2007

No antlers do not bleed after they have hardened. You could cut them off at the burl and they would not bleed. The blood is from the other animal. No doubt the one is dead, but do we know it was killed by this bull, another bull, or something else. It had to be fairly recent, but animals will attack another that is already dead. Pretty amazing how far he rolled the dead one. Think about how hard it would be for one of us to move that bull guts in any distance. Nice.

canhunter · Feb 15, 2007

I looked at the picture now and it is still not the horn and does not look like blood. It is something else in the picture. I have seen lots of elk and deer with their horns cut off on purpose. Animals that do not loose their horns will bleed like crazy. We cut off cow/bull horns with a grinder or sawsall, then shove a coned shape hot rod down the center to cauterize it.

dleonard3 · Feb 16, 2007

In the seventh picture from the top, you can actually see the antler breaking. That must have been one HELLUVA wollup. It's amazing how powerful these beasts are.