Fancy Lawn Ornaments

[superduty]

We're doing it wrong; we've been going up into the mountains. Maybe we
should be hunting in the subdivisions!!!!

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[MULIES4EVER]

Oh man. i would be having a coronary if I had them in my front yard. That is so stinkin' cool. Thanks for posting that.

[MULIES4EVER]

I keep coming back to see this. That is so cool. Would it be considered poaching if you hit one with your riding lawnmower???

[Speckmisser]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (MULIES4EVER @ Jul 17 2008, 11:22 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

I keep coming back to see this. That is so cool. Would it be considered poaching if you hit one with your riding lawnmower???[/b]

I dunno, Mulies... I&#39;d be more worried about one hitting you back!

Truly cool pix, though. I&#39;d have to change my britches if looked out the living room window to see something like that in the yard!

[superduty]

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I keep coming back to see this. That is so cool. Would it be considered poaching if you hit one with your riding lawnmower???[/b]

You made me choke on my lunch reading that. Last week my riding lawnmower threw the center blade and would have done the job nicely.

[tmoniz]

Oh My God!
I think I&#39;m gonna be sick.

T

[snoopdogg]

That&#39;s just not right! Remember when another fella, I believe on the bowhunting forum, tattooed a hog in his yard in Florida? If only Superduty could fling an arrow....

[Mntngoat]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (superduty @ Jul 17 2008, 10:59 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

We&#39;re doing it wrong; we&#39;ve been going up into the mountains. Maybe we
should be hunting in the subdivisions!!!![/b]

Super duty any idea what state? of is this your front yard?

ML

[hank4elk]

That truely trumps any bunch of blacktails in my yard. Elko,Nev? Last time I was there,there wasn&#39;t a thing there.I guess that&#39;s the "IN" subdivision pet? I , honey can i get a..... Hank

[SDHNTR]

Cool pics, but kinda sad if you think about it.

[JNDEER]

when i only looked at the first pic i thought they were fake

[superduty]

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Super duty any idea what state? of is this your front yard?

ML[/b]

Rocksprings Wyoming, not here. My nearest neighbor isn&#39;t anything near that close. I do have quality mulies every day, I even had a nice buck antelope run through my property recently but no elk. Sad thing is the ranchers around here consider the Rubies as a elk free zone not that it is but Very recently I found 12 to 15 elk no more than 5 miles from my house. I cut the spikes off one of them. I originally thought someone had dumped them there before talking to one of my friends who has lived here his whole life. He told me it&#39;s not the first time or the last. He asked me if I had ever shot such a large animal and if I had then I would know just how hard it is to load something like that let along load it to dump the whole thing. It made sense and a bad taste in my mouth all at the same time. He said where I found them is where they were shot. Kind of a crappy story but that is what came to mind. We do have very nice elk herds not more than 50miles from me that don&#39;t get the local rancher treatment. My uncle drew a bull elk tag this season in the Jawbridge area 7 so I&#39;m pretty stocked to help him out.

[MULIES4EVER]

That story seriously sucks.

[SDHNTR]

Jarbidge. No w and no r. From what I&#39;ve heard the locals get a little bent when it&#39;s mispronounced.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarbidge_Wilderness

[wmidbrook]

Very cool pics.

[hank4elk]

Yeah, when I was up there early70&#39;s the locals were that way about elk and deer. That&#39;s why I was wondering if it was Ruby Ranch area, there wasn&#39;t a elk any where on "My Property", I was told as I looked out over hundreds of thousands of acres of BLM land. I guess they raise subdivisions now on public land. Hank

[superduty]

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Jarbidge. No w and no r. From what I&#39;ve heard the locals get a little bent when it&#39;s mispronounced.[/b]

Your&#39;e not wrong there. I guess I was getting alittle bit in a hurry since I posted at 4:05 and my van leaves my office at close to the same time. We probably won&#39;t even hit that exact spot due to some last year scouting and the bulls we managed to get on video last year. I recieved those elk pics yesterday morning from a coworker. I thought you might all enjoy them as much as I did.

[bpnclark]

Would it be wrong to add a salt lick in the garage?

[7mm RM]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (SDHNTR @ Jul 17 2008, 02:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

Cool pics, but kinda sad if you think about it.[/b]

I would have to very much agree with you. Love seeing great bulls but not in a sub division...

[Cold1nhand]

WOW Those are some amazing pics and like speck if I saw that in the front yard I too would have had to change my shorts... that and blame the rest on the dog!

[wyemjohnson]

I had a similar situation this week, when 15 bulls came thru our subdivision just outside GTNP. They have figured out that they don&#39;t get harrased or hunted and it is safer to hang out in irrigated yards than in the high country. I wasn&#39;t able to get a good picture of them, but when I do I&#39;ll post it up, one guy is at least 7x7 and in the 350+ range.

[AZ Jim]

Very cool pics. Thanks for sharing. It&#39;s strange not seeing them in an Alpine meadow, or nestled in the pines. My brother used to send pictures of moose all of the time in his front yard in Alaska. He even has one of a large bull moose looking through his window.

AZ Jim

[baboltin]

dang i wouldnt mind those lawn ornanments

[bpenn]

On the suburban elk. Years ago, before I started hunting, a friend of a friend drew an elk tag for Owens valley. I think he lived in Big Pine or Bishop outskirts. Anyway, he felt kinda dissatisfied filling it apparently cause they stayed on his property like that guys yard. Kinda takes the thrill and challenge out of the hunt to wake up, roll over, open the window and put down your trophy before you have your morning cup of coffee.

Regardless, its simply amazing how large those animals are. Last year I had a cow elk jump me while I was looking for pig out in Carrizo. She was about 15 yards away when I caught a huge mass out of the corner of my eye. She had popped up out of a small drainage. It was humbling to be so close and feel so small.

Cool pics, thanks for sharing!

[NatureDriven]

Hey Superduty, great pics! Thanks for sharing! I&#39;d follow those elk right back into their territory in hopes it was in hunting land then bag one. I hope all is well with you these days.

BPenn: I had a similiar experience with giant cow elk. I was tucked into some tree&#39;s at the Tejon ranch looking over a watering hole with a buddy of mine. As we sat there, I had the strangest feeling that someone or something was watching us. Finally I decided to turn around, and as I did, there standing behind us was a cow elk no more the 5 yards from us. I hit my freind and had him turn just in time to get a good look at her. At that moment, having smelled us, she blew a big &#39;ol load of snot through her nostrils! It was an awesome sight.