DrMike
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He is certainly a handsome brute. It would be a coup to find his sheds.
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A few more elk, 500 or so. Yesterday on my way into town. First group on the east side of the road. I think four photos captured most of them, the herd spread north to south. What you can’t see is most of the herd is further east over the small hill.
Drove about 1/2 mile and found this bunch on the west side of the road, last three photos. In one of the last three photos you can see a bunch of spots way out there. Those are elk too.
Drove about 1/2 mile and found this bunch on the west side of the road, last three photos. In one of the last three photos you can see a bunch of spots way out there. Those are elk too.
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DrMike
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Beautiful sight, Don. They are assuredly finding food and enjoying a high degree of security.
Thanks for sharing! I love seeing animals in the winter range. It gives a true idea of the population. My dad and I used to drive from the Eugene area to Christmas Valley in SE Oregon to view Mule Deer in the wintertime. It's eye opening when you see a couple hundred animals in an alfalfa field in January. I can always tell when we are going to get really cold weather around Laramie. The Antelope will bunch up into herds of 50 plus and hang out behind the house. We will see if that happens next weekend as we are forecast to have multiple days in the negative teens.
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We used to have access to one of the big hay and cattle operations between Christmas Valley and Silver Lake. There were indeed some massive mule deer in that country. It all went south because my youngest brother was dating one of the ranchers daughters. Actually that was ok until he started dating her younger sister as well. Things went south after that.
Crazy how things went south. I spent many year of my youth going to deer camp on the south rim above Summer Lake, between Silver Lake and Paisley. Most of the years were before I was old enough to draw a tag. Great memories. The access we had bordered national forest and when the family donated the ranch to OSU after Mr. Harvey passed, the caretakers killed off everything within three years. We stopped going soon after that.
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We hunted some of the same ground! Back in the late 70s early 80s we had access to the private ground on the North End of the Summer Lake refuge. Also, from there across the highway to the top of the rim and usfs ground. That was good hunting.
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That's a healthy looking herd.
As for the rancher's daughter, I can't comment.
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As for the rancher's daughter, I can't comment.
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Tried to play the girls off against one another? Yeah, can't imagine that'd work out for him.
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The kid always had a sense of adventure about him.
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Never saw that number of elk wintering. Buy prior to the hard winter of 2005, i recall fields of mule deer yarded up and numbering in the hundred. On one occasion, I stopped counting when I reached three hundred, and that was only about half the field. Haven't witnessed such numbers since.
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Reminds me of that song that had the lyrics "Did you ever have to make up your mind. Say yes to one and let the other one ......
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He’s 10 years younger than me and he has always had the gift. I had a New Year’s party when he was a freshman in high school, I must have been 25 or 26. A buddy came up to me asking if I knew my brother was there. By the time I got to him he must of had 1/2 dozen woman, all over 21 fawning over him. I just walked away shaking my head.
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Wow , quite the herd.
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Elvis is correct.
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It’s been five or six years ago, there was a bachelor herd in the valley that numbered close to 100. I never got a pic of them though I understand there are some photos floating around.
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Damn thats a bunch
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WOW. That's a lot of elk!
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