Give 'em room...

He got the bull by the horns. And that ain't no bull. Too many Metro Pinhead these days. I want to see them get close to a polar bear as that would be cool ,rofl.
 
This is a video of a different sort. Shows nature at work....

That's what would happen to any bull elk that would try to fight me. I'd grab the antlers and break his neck.
 
I wouldn't gore it. I'd grab the antlers and twist, thus breaking his neck. I don't put up with mean elk.
Both of the earlier videos I posted in this thread happened in Mammoth, in the large park area right in front of the hotel. Not far from there up the hill a ways is where I had my own personal encounter with a bull many years ago on the first trip I made to YNP with a fellow photographer.

When I started shooting, he and his harem of about 20 cows were 30-50 yards away, but the cows kept coming my way. Finally one of them meandered over to me and stood less than 5 feet from me. The bull didn't like that one bit. He pinned his ears back and came at me on the dead run as I scrambled to get a tree in between him and me. I dodged behind a pine with about a 6" trunk, put my hand on it and stood back at arms length as he butted up against it with his antlers on either side just missing me. My legs were literally shaking, and I had to keep control of the two cameras strapped around my neck. We did circles around the tree for about 3-5 minutes until he just turned and meandered off.

It's the same bull in the photo (One Photo Per Day thread) that was used for the Browning safe. My buddy was standing on a bridge above us and took quite a few photos. He gave me one, but it's 35mm slide buried in my files somewhere.

That's when I learned to be really cautious around them, ie. give 'em room. ;)
 
Both of the earlier videos I posted in this thread happened in Mammoth, in the large park area right in front of the hotel. Not far from there up the hill a ways is where I had my own personal encounter with a bull many years ago on the first trip I made to YNP with a fellow photographer.

When I started shooting, he and his harem of about 20 cows were 30-50 yards away, but the cows kept coming my way. Finally one of them meandered over to me and stood less than 5 feet from me. The bull didn't like that one bit. He pinned his ears back and came at me on the dead run as I scrambled to get a tree in between him and me. I dodged behind a pine with about a 6" trunk, put my hand on it and stood back at arms length as he butted up against it with his antlers on either side just missing me. My legs were literally shaking, and I had to keep control of the two cameras strapped around my neck. We did circles around the tree for about 3-5 minutes until he just turned and meandered off.

It's the same bull in the photo (One Photo Per Day thread) that was used for the Browning safe. My buddy was standing on a bridge above us and took quite a few photos. He gave me one, but it's 35mm slide buried in my files somewhere.

That's when I learned to be really cautious around them, ie. give 'em room. ;)
Wow! That is a great photo though.
 
Wow! That is a great photo though.
Another incident, same area. I posted this a while back in another thread:

Many years ago, I was sitting in my truck in Mammoth and using a window-pod with a 300 mm lens to shoot a herd of elk in the middle of the grassy meadow in front of the hotel. Some gal pulled her SUV up to the curb on the opposite side from where I was. A few minutes later two big bulls got into it and wound up fighting their way right next to her SUV. I'm only guessing here, but it seemed like they slammed into it at least six times on one side, leaving visible dents. Then they moved to the back end and wound up tearing off the spare tire dealie that was mounted to the rear door. She was sitting inside the entire time and too dumb to start the engine and move.

These were the culprits...


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Yellowstone in winter. Most of the herd had already gone past by the time I got my camera out. I could have reached out and grabbed one by the tail if I had wanted to.

A lot closer than I wanted to be but there wasn't any options. The snow was four feet deep once you got out of the road. All you could do was hide behind the snowmobile. Had a good guide, she had us all pull over and stop. Get off and keep the line of snowmobiles between us and the bison.

Yellowstone in winter was an interesting trip.
 
Have friends who live there. Between elk in the front yard and black bears and Mt lions in the back, the kids are not even allowed outside to play without adults escorting them!! That's BS way to live, thin them out!!!
 

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