Nice 7x7 elk

79Ford · Post by **79Ford** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 12:49 am

So the other day my dad was out taking pictures of some elk in a friends field. As the elk moved out of the field they had to jump a fence. Normaly not a big deal, but when this big guy jumped it he caught the top wire with his legs. It sent him tumbling, but they figured he'd just get up and walk it off. When he didn't get up they thought maybe he broke his neck, but as they got closer to inspect the situation he rose his head up, but was not holding it steady at all. They called the fish and game officer who lives down the road and he came up to see what was going on. He determined that the only option was to shoot the animal and put it out of it's misery. Upon final inspection of the bull they found that when he fell it cracked his skull, thus disabling the animal.

Before this turnes into a thread about harrassing animals please know that the animal was moving from one field to another field accross the road to feed and was at no time harrassed. It's just an unfortunate accident that could not have been avoided.

Post by **MuleyMadness** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 12:53 am

Wow, bummer for sure. Nice bull, thanks for sharing the story and photo with us.

Post by **killerbee** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:33 am

well that stinks

J0n · Post by **J0n** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 4:50 pm

That sucks. I was out looking for sheds a couple years ago and found what was left of a little buck that got his back legs caught in a fence. It's too bad when stuff like that happens.

Post by **Hiker** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 5:46 pm

Wow! that is something else. Thanks for sharing that with us.

bigbuck92 · Post by **bigbuck92** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 6:04 pm

yep thats to bad. this summer we seen an elk during the hunt that we thought got shot or something but it was wounded but it looked like an old wound so we called F&G and left. i dont know if they put it down or not

AGCHAWK · Post by **AGCHAWK** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:04 pm

Wow, that is too bad but accidents happen.

muleystalker01 · Post by **muleystalker01** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:02 pm

wow what a bummer. Now my question is did game and fish let anyone have him for the meat or did this guy go to waste?

kadejones2 · Post by **kadejones2** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:21 pm

wow thant looks bad

Post by **DeadI** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:17 pm

two bad. looks like he would have been a very big bull in a nother couple of years. thanks for sharing