It’s easy. They are all smoking behind the club…
Maybe they’re disguising themselves as moose.
Silly journalistic prattle. They’re not ‘smart’, but they are well trained. Same thing happens with deer in these parts - at the sound of the first rifle shot in fall, they’re in full on sprint to the nearest haven. Brother once followed one of these ‘races’ in a car - 16 miles non-stop to a state park.
This is news? Game understand hunting pressure? This is OLD news, baby. I can save them millions on their next study by telling them that the biggest trophy bucks hug the most remote and difficult terrain. I don’t mind a small low 6 figure fee for that “study” conclusion. How do I contact BYU and collect?
There was one bull that would keg up in a small spot inside city limits when the rut was over. He wouldn’t be seen until the day his antlers dropped. I’ve found quite a few small areas where a bull obviously spent extensive time, waiting out hunting season.
I hunted for elk with a muzzleloader in Colorado last year. We never saw a single elk. No fresh sign.
Oh, good grief.
This is a short, but very interesting article for people like me, who don’t know much about the Elk.
Plain language is used, not the sterile notations of a numbers cruncher.
The Elk are in league with the Crows. The Crows do aerial patrols and warn the Elk. The Crows are the spawn of Satan.
It wouldn’t be hard for the elks to outsmart Utah hunters who do stupid s**t like parking on the East Canyon exit Westbound and shooting OVER the interstate at the Elk into the mountainside on the East side.
Always charming to see some idiot (in the bright orange vest!) aiming his rifle...straight across oncoming traffic
[[Are Utah elk outsmarting hunters?]]
Yes, they have studied ventriloquism and have learned to throw their bugles off i the distance, usually near a tall cliff- causing hunters to plummet to their demise while chasing the sound
I have never applied for a hunting permit in my life. But a good ol boy Bobby gave me a revolver to sit in one of his deer stands and shoot what deer came by. Clark County Georgia. 1988.
Then very soon His son killed a large buck. My guess is 220 lbs. It was so tough to drag this deer’s body to the asphalt road. I got deer ribs and sausages from me efforts. The ribs were the best,
The elk know that on that side of the line is the tribal land of the Ute Nation. The minute the hunt starts, they move over the line.
When you see white-tailed deer doing the equivalent of worming down a large drainage ditch to avoid being back lighted by early morning sunlight, literally crawling on their bellies in a deer like fashion. You know at that point that they are evolving defenses for suvivability.
The power plant north of Panama City Florida is situated on a large tract with woods . As hunting season begins the deer congregate on the plant property where there is no hunting permitted. When I worked security there, part of my job was to patrol the grounds. I could tell when the season started because I would see many deer for the duration. The week the season ended the deer I saw dropped from crowds to perhaps one or two.
A couple or three decades ago, Louisiana declared a moratorium of gator hunting because their numbers were endangered. Three or four years later they lifted the embargo because their numbers had rebounded. Except the increase was well in excess of the American alligator’s notoriously slow reproductive abilities, the obvious implication being they just for a time were doing a better job of hiding from the gator census takers.