oops correct pic of Kilchis Elk

Reelman2006 · 09-10-2007, 10:57 AM

Heres the correct photo ...good catch..had to edit for size

Bay City Born · 09-10-2007, 01:25 PM

I seen them at about 7:00PM lastnight. There were 2 bow hunters sitting on alderbrook road waiting for them the cross. Must be sad if that is all you can kill is a field bull.

RBfisher · 09-10-2007, 07:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Bay City Born

I seen them at about 7:00PM lastnight. There were 2 bow hunters sitting on alderbrook road waiting for them the cross. Must be sad if that is all you can kill is a field bull.

Did you talk to the hunters?
Were they handicapped by any chance?
Did they have any physical problems that made it impossible to hike in 5miles so they could spend 2 days packing out an animal so they could feel like a real woodsman?
Maybe by your thinking we could also assume those elk are to lazy to hike that same 5 miles to graze so they deserve to die on a road by any means.
It's a nice picture of some elk, appreciate it for what it's worth.

Robert · 09-10-2007, 07:25 PM

What made you so holly?

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Originally Posted by Bay City Born

I seen them at about 7:00PM lastnight. There were 2 bow hunters sitting on alderbrook road waiting for them the cross. Must be sad if that is all you can kill is a field bull.

Bay City Born · 09-10-2007, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by RBfisher

Did you talk to the hunters?
Were they handicapped by any chance?
Did they have any physical problems that made it impossible to hike in 5miles so they could spend 2 days packing out an animal so they could feel like a real woodsman?
Maybe by your thinking we could also assume those elk are to lazy to hike that same 5 miles to graze so they deserve to die on a road by any means.
It's a nice picture of some elk, appreciate it for what it's worth.

I do apprecaite it and I too, took some pictures and I also took some out at the blimp base on my may out of town. But I don't appreciate perfectly health hunters shooting elk out of a field. There is no sport in that at all. I knew both of them, and there is nothing handicapped about them.

Bait O' Eggs · 09-10-2007, 07:29 PM

Put one of those dead elk in the ditch with no pavement in the background and they make a perfectly good picture, and the story and can be anything you want it to be.

BCB, I completely understand your point

Rank Amateur · 09-10-2007, 07:40 PM

Kind of like ambulance chasers.:grin:

Art Vandeley · 09-10-2007, 08:08 PM

Is it just me or does that spike on the left side have a HUGE body??? It looks massive to me....?? Nice Pic!!

Rank Amateur · 09-10-2007, 08:24 PM

Naa, just closer to the camera, look at his older brother on his left, a little more meat on the bone. Nice spike though.

blackdog · 09-11-2007, 05:54 AM

They were there when I headed out back to Bend about 11:45. Two spikes at the time looked like they were getting ready to cross Alderbrook but they must have got comfortable and spent the afternoon. And waiting by the road for a chance at a shot -

. One of these guys wasn't by chance the guy who reportedly shot an elk with his bow out of the bucket of a tractor in a field last year was it? True sportsmen!

Chesapeake · 09-11-2007, 08:00 AM

I dont get the whole "dont shoot the elk in the field" thing.

Its Ok to shoot an elk in a clear cut isnt it?

Whats the difference?

Would it be ok if a guy parked and walked 5 miles to the field?

What about all the guys that put in for the winter range type tags like Jackson Hole Wyoming? Is it also unsporting to shoot an elk in winter range it is force to go to?

Its Ok to shoot geese in a field, why not elk?

What about waiting at the field edge, is this not ok?

What about the guys who wait at unit boundries out on logging roads for the migrating elk. Is this not ok?

If it was a whitetail deer it would be ok, heck it would be ok to plant the field just to get the deer to come so they could be shot.

I guess I just dont get some peoples idea of "Sporting".

Trick · 09-11-2007, 08:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Chesapeake

I dont get the whole "dont shoot the elk in the field" thing.

Its Ok to shoot an elk in a clear cut isnt it?

Whats the difference?

Would it be ok if a guy parked and walked 5 miles to the field?

What about all the guys that put in for the winter range type tags like Jackson Hole Wyoming? Is it also unsporting to shoot an elk in winter range it is force to go to?

Its Ok to shoot geese in a field, why not elk?

What about waiting at the field edge, is this not ok?

What about the guys who wait at unit boundries out on logging roads for the migrating elk. Is this not ok?

If it was a whitetail deer it would be ok, heck it would be ok to plant the field just to get the deer to come so they could be shot.

I guess I just dont get some peoples idea of "Sporting".

It is always going to be subject to interpretation.

I watch those Texas Whitetail shows where a guy will climp into a wooden box in the middle of a food plot. With his propane heater and snacks he waits for the perfect chance at a "trophy" buck. Points his barrel out the slot in the wall and "whamo" Big buck down. Whopee!

I'd rather shoot a spike in a clearcut! But that's just me.

As long as they follow the laws I don't say much. But that's not saying that deep down I agree with it.

blackdog · 09-11-2007, 10:33 AM

I don't have a problem with shooting an elk out of a field. However, waiting by the side of the road like the hunters mentioned in this story, or shooting a bull out of a tractor like happened to this herd last year, isn't sporting in the least bit.

But each to his own. As long as it's legal and you can sleep at night.

Rank Amateur · 09-11-2007, 12:35 PM

I guess my objection to it come from the complications that go with this type of hunting. Obviously they don't have permission to hunt the field, so they wait at the edge. Then they arrow one and it runs back onto the field and dies. Now we have a problem and just makes the landowner more against hunters.

I just drive by elk in the fields, they are nothing but trouble. Clearcuts and fields are not the same.