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Saw my 1st elk #6951214
08/02/20 12:22 AM
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A 6x6. Seeing a wild Wisconsin elk has been a dream come true. 10 years ago it didn't seem like it'd be possible.

The herd is growing.

Wi has a pretty diverse array of wild animals.

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Re: Saw my 1st elk [Re: AJE] #6951230
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Was it the black river herd?


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Re: Saw my 1st elk [Re: AJE] #6951231
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Re: Saw my 1st elk [Re: AJE] #6951232
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Pretty cool, huh? Now you need one hanging on your wall.



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Re: Saw my 1st elk [Re: AJE] #6951241
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The northern Wi herd can be hunted, but drawing a tag is like winning the lottery. I haven't drawn a northern tag yet, but I've been applying.

Re: Saw my 1st elk [Re: AJE] #6951245
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Any Indians there to wipe them out?


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Re: Saw my 1st elk [Re: AJE] #6951248
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Up north the tribe gets 1/2 the tags every year.

The Black River herd has a lot of indians living in the area.

Re: Saw my 1st elk [Re: AJE] #6951321
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we had one of your elk come thru here ,this summer a bull an a couple of cows, u p of Michigan ,north of iron mountain

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I seen a few of the black river bulls a while back. They were just starting to grow antlers.

Re: Saw my 1st elk [Re: AJE] #6951340
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Cool isn’t it

We should be getting lottery soon since ours are becoming a nuisance in our mtns.

I’ll never forget watching large Idaho herds migrating in Spring. Like 100-200 head.


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Re: Saw my 1st elk [Re: AJE] #6951345
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Re: Saw my 1st elk [Re: Trapper Dahlgren] #6951377
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Originally Posted by Trapper Dahlgren
we had one of your elk come thru here ,this summer a bull an a couple of cows, u p of Michigan ,north of iron mountain

That seems awfully far east. WI elk are in the NW.


I wonder if someone released some on their own.

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Originally Posted by traprjohn
Cool isn’t it

We should be getting lottery soon since ours are becoming a nuisance in our mtns.

I’ll never forget watching large Idaho herds migrating in Spring. Like 100-200 head.

I was in Cherokee, NC a couole years ago and the elk were running down the main street. Blew my mind.

Re: Saw my 1st elk [Re: Jurassic Park] #6951405
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Originally Posted by Jurassic Park
Any Indians there to wipe them out?


No just idiot white women. One shot two of them by mistake not long ago.


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Re: Saw my 1st elk [Re: AJE] #6951489
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Keep applying for those tags......I finally drew my last year's bull tag after applying for 35 of 36 years.

Pike River....our elk in the northern Lower Peninsula get wanderlust now and then and turn up in central and southern areas 100 plus miles from the "normal" range.


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We had a thriving herd in Western NC. Poachers are a frequent problem here. Also some three legged bears.

Re: Saw my 1st elk [Re: J.Morse] #6951527
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Originally Posted by J.Morse
Keep applying for those tags......I finally drew my last year's bull tag after applying for 35 of 36 years.

Pike River....our elk in the northern Lower Peninsula get wanderlust now and then and turn up in central and southern areas 100 plus miles from the "normal" range.

Oh wow! Didnt know there were elk in the lower peninsula. Crazy how theyre down there but not the UP.

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Originally Posted by Pike River
Originally Posted by J.Morse
Keep applying for those tags......I finally drew my last year's bull tag after applying for 35 of 36 years.

Pike River....our elk in the northern Lower Peninsula get wanderlust now and then and turn up in central and southern areas 100 plus miles from the "normal" range.

Oh wow! Didnt know there were elk in the lower peninsula. Crazy how theyre down there but not the UP.


Michigan's native Eastern Elk population was nearly 100% a Lower Peninsula population even pre-settlement times. The S.W. part of the U.P. may, or may not, have had them. They were a common beast here until European settlement shot them out.They don't know for sure when that happened, but it was about the time logging kicked into high gear here....the 1870's or possibly as late as the early 1880's. At any rate, when my Great Grandad was born there were still native Elk here....but not for long. The herd we now have is the result of a relocation of a small number of Elk brought here from Yellowstone in 1918. I believe there were 7 animals released. They also released a few in my area around the same time. Those Roscommon Co. Elk did ok until the Great Depression and they were, literally, all eaten. I knew residents that did some of the shooting. One fellow, recently deceased, was a kid of 17 when he ate a 4x4 he shot not far from my home. That was possibly as late as the early 1940's. I never heard of any after that one, except for those from farther north that occasionally wander down.
The Moose herd is totally a U.P. deal. The last one reported in the Lower Peninsula was a cow in Cheboygan Co. in 1899.


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I put out a trail cam. 'Will see if I can get it on cam. The neighbor tells me it stole his bird feeder the other day and he saw it with it stuck in its rack. They aren't all that afraid of humans.

I didn't hear of someone shooting 2, Sprung.

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Originally Posted by AJE
I put out a trail cam. 'Will see if I can get it on cam. The neighbor tells me it stole his bird feeder the other day and he saw it with it stuck in its rack. They aren't all that afraid of humans.

I didn't hear of someone shooting 2, Sprung.

Yeah a Milwaukee area woman deer hunting over in your area shot 2 last year thinking they were deer.... crazy

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