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Post by majorminor on May 14, 2021 12:33:20 GMT -5
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Post by Cornflake on May 14, 2021 12:48:24 GMT -5
Terrific. You certainly have a diverse range of critters nearby.
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Post by theevan on May 14, 2021 14:13:30 GMT -5
Wow. Buncha biguns.
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Post by epaul on May 14, 2021 15:39:41 GMT -5
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Post by majorminor on May 14, 2021 15:59:44 GMT -5
I refer you to Evan's post above.....
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Post by Village Idiot on May 14, 2021 17:06:05 GMT -5
Those are really cool, Steve. I've gotten lots of deer, turkeys, an occasional coyote, a badger, every now and then a feral cat. But I'll never beat an elk or a bear or mountain lion. Or a wolf. I'd love that.
We did have an elk in our timber a couple years ago. I never saw it, but neighbors did, and the guy who bow hunts in our timber. It had escaped from an Amish farm.
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Post by Cornflake on May 14, 2021 17:26:12 GMT -5
I like Steve's game cam but I think I'll order the kind Marshall has.
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Post by millring on May 14, 2021 17:27:34 GMT -5
Dar says you should set up some agility equipment in your back yard and see what they can do.
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Post by howard lee on May 14, 2021 18:14:50 GMT -5
[...] It had escaped from an Amish farm. That's a Midwest rural kind of joke, right? |
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Post by epaul on May 14, 2021 19:14:53 GMT -5
Nope.
A fellow keeping elk a few miles south of the farm had a few escape (then he understood just how sturdy and extensive the fencework needed to be). There are plenty of stories about fellows new to the Elk business and escaped elk.
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Post by John B on May 14, 2021 19:31:47 GMT -5
In my neck of the woods, it's more likely they escaped from a NASCAR driver's yard.
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Post by Village Idiot on May 14, 2021 19:47:29 GMT -5
[...] It had escaped from an Amish farm. That's a Midwest rural kind of joke, right? Nope, no joke. Quite a few Amish raise elk to harvest their antlers. Many of them learn quickly how hard those animals are to contain. |
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Post by Russell Letson on May 14, 2021 19:54:55 GMT -5
An escaped Elk on his way to the VFW, maybe?
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Post by Village Idiot on May 14, 2021 20:00:50 GMT -5
I think most VFW members escape to the Elks.
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Post by Cornflake on May 14, 2021 20:01:33 GMT -5
We have all those species in Arizona but I certainly couldn't get them on a game camera in my neighborhood.
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Post by dradtke on May 15, 2021 7:43:59 GMT -5
Nope. A fellow keeping elk a few miles south of the farm had a few escape (then he understood just how sturdy and extensive the fencework needed to be). There are plenty of stories about fellows new to the Elk business and escaped elk. There was a fad a number of years back for ostrich farms. My brother-in-law, out for a jog near Cambridge, MN, met an ostrich going the opposite way down a gravel road. He kept his distance. |
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Post by dradtke on May 15, 2021 7:47:01 GMT -5
Not on cam, but on Mothers Day a bald eagle flew over my wife and daughter on our deck at about the height of our bedroom windows. They said they felt the air from its wingbeats. I was facing the grill at the time, but I turned around in time to see the white tail disappearing down the street. That was cool.
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Post by howard lee on May 15, 2021 7:56:43 GMT -5
That's a Midwest rural kind of joke, right? Nope, no joke. Quite a few Amish raise elk to harvest their antlers. Many of them learn quickly how hard those animals are to contain.
I rest my case.
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