Ear tagged Cow

Longun

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On of my hunting buddies killed a tagged cow this year. Got the info on it from Wyoming Game and Fish. Very interesting. She was caught with a Helicopter net gun in Feb 2002 thru the University of Wyoming Coop program. She was a adult female at the time. Funny thing is where the guy killed her this year is only about 10 air miles from where she was tagged. She was definitely a resident Elk Anybody else have any interesting stories like that?
 
I don't have any similar stories, but, that one is kinda cool. It's always interesting to see what animals do, and how old they are. Neat story!

Elk
 
Longun

Sent you a PM. Also answered your question about the flags. And I have a interesting story about a tagged marlin but this post is about elk.


Ransom
 
LAST EDITED ON Nov-18-07 AT 05:57PM (MST)[p]I shot a cow elk that was ear tagged and had a radio collar around it's neck. This was on a winter hunt in the Gallatin Canyon, near Big Sky, back in the 80's. This cow was HUGE, her body was the size of a mature bull, and she really stood out among the cows she was travelling with. We had to check her at the Gallatin Gateway check station and we learned quite a bit about her from Montana Game and Fish's records. She'd been ear-tagged 14 years earlier, as a calf, and was an elk that lived in Yellowstone much of her life, but migrated out during the winters. She's been radio collared at 4 years old, and the collar had quit working many years before I shot her, so Montana was glad to get their radio collar back, for sure. With her legs taken off at the knees and gutted, she weighed 462 poiunds, which is what we were told is about the average 6 pt. bull weighs that they've checked at the G.G. station over the years.

Here's the amazing part....the cow was pregnant. She had a bull fetus in her when we field dressed her. When we told the fish and game guys about that, they wanted the exact location of the gut pile and were hooking up the trailer with the snow machine to go get the fetus for study. They were amazed that a cow that old was able to conceive and carry a fetus.

She ate awful! It was like even her burger was tough and chewy.
 
I was E-mailed this story: A Bowhunter over in the Murderers Hunt Unit near John Day Oregon killed a cow in August 2007 with a neck collar and come to find out it came from Emmett Idaho! It was banded in March 2005 and had traveled over 160 miles due west--crossed I-84 and swam the Snake River. He got a $20.00 gift certificate for returning the expensive radio collar from the Idaho Fish and Game.
 
well mine was not an elk but a doe mule deer i killed her in the early 90's during an archery hunt. I called the local warden and he was not real happy he and the local bioligist had tagged and collered her earlier that day about a 1/2 mile away!! she was young and tender..
 
4x4...
You should've put the collar on the mantle for a few days to test the tracking abilities of the Bio....
HEHEHE
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By the way,
I live in UT.
There are a lot of UTARDS that live here.
I have also seen quite a few WYOMORONS, NEVADUHNS, COLORADORKS, ID-IOTS and AIRHEADZONANS in my travels.
 

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