Deer And Elk

[M00N]

During a couple of those slow afternoons where the fish just weren't biting and it was past legal time to hunt turkey anymore we took a little drive up to find some local elk and deer for photographs.

The one day I ended up finding a skeleton in the middle of a marsh that probably was someone's kill in rifle season that they never found or a deer that just died over the winter. I couldn't find the skull at first to tell if it was a doe or buck and wasn't about to sink up to my knees in the mud, but as we drove off I looked back and spotted the skull and it was definately a doe skull. I didn't get a chance to get a picture of the skull though because another car came up behind us on a single lane road, so we had to continue on.

Another day we went out again for a drive and just before dark I spotted this doe standing still as ever in the middle of a grass road. I stepped out the car along side the road and took a few photos of her.

Then we finally found some elk to get pictures of and I took a few pictures of some bulls and cows. The one cow I snapped a quick picture of when she snuck up to me in the woods and started feeding 25yards from me. I was glassing the hillside and when I turned to glass the other side she gave me a scare when her big eyes were looking at me in my binos. lol She didn't care though kept feeding next to me as I left to go to the next spot to find more elk.

[wtnhunt]

Nice pics.

[PAstringking]

where were you at in PA moon?? i was thinking of heading out to Bennezette (sp?) this week.

[M00N]

The elk were photographed in Benezette. It took us two trips up there in the evenings just before dark to get a glimps of any of the elk. They are a bit tricky to pattern since it's not cold right now and food is pleantiful everywhere through the woods.

The bull in my first picture was right after the turn at the church to the left in the person's lawn feeding by himself. There weren't any other elk around him and he was quite uninterested in what people were during around him. Just didn't care.

Then the first pull off on the Winslow hill drive there's a road to the right of it that says "no outlet" that leads back to the fields. We got the owner's permission to drive down it and park and then I stepped out and waited on them to come out into the field near me for photographs. That's where I got the closeup of the cow in the second picture and a few other field pictures that I didn't post up of more cow elk.

The last picture I took at the town municiple building, there's a playground behind it. We pulled in there and the elk were just standing in the playground munching down on the green grass. I was going to get some great closeup's, but the people that live across the street left their dog out and the dog got loose and chased the elk away. It was a little dachshund dog. Should have saw them freaking out when one the elk didn't run away and instead chased their dog. I thought I was going to witness an elk killing a dog. The lead cow was not pleased by the dog scaring her yearlings. She had 3 yearlings with her in the playground feeding.

[Shed94]

Great photos MOON!

I was down there last week and took some photos.I believe I have some photos of that same bull.

[booner1331]

Great pics thanks for sharing

[HuntnMa]

very nice........