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Re: What is the largest herd of wild animals you seen [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7718170
11/15/22 10:39 AM
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Saw 6 fox squirrels at one feeder once.

Re: What is the largest herd of wild animals you seen [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7718173
11/15/22 10:44 AM
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Ya caribou here as well-once saw "the herd" swimming about 6-7 animals wide swimming across a lake 2 1/2 miles wide-we were in the float plane-looked like ants from the skies-amazing to see. Also saw the same thing while on the ground hunting-couldn't shoot anything for fear of killing 5 or six with one bullet-it was crazy

Re: What is the largest herd of wild animals you seen [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7718174
11/15/22 10:48 AM
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We were in Yellow Stone park back in the 80's during the big fire .Nearly all the Bison in the park were herded up . They crossed the road at Buffalo Ford and came right around our car . I believe the herd was about 3000 strong . Quite impressive sight to see .One of the farms I trap always has a big flock of turkeys each Winter . I never tried to count them , but there must be close to a 100. It looks like the whole woods floor is moving when they run off . They are as dumb as rocks . I have had them walk right up to me and watch me put in coyote sets . My trapping partner hunted there a couple of seasons , but quit because he said it was like hunting chipmunks . No sport at all.


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Re: What is the largest herd of wild animals you seen [Re: aknome] #7718177
11/15/22 10:55 AM
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Originally Posted by aknome
Several thousand caribou.



same here. I have pictures of at least 2000. They were moving past my cabin night and day for at least a week. Probably 80 thousand in all.. around 1990


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Re: What is the largest herd of wild animals you seen [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7718179
11/15/22 11:00 AM
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300 or so elk herd in NW CO.


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Re: What is the largest herd of wild animals you seen [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7718247
11/15/22 01:05 PM
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Last week, Just south of Casper, 500, maybe 1000 elk.

Re: What is the largest herd of wild animals you seen [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7718255
11/15/22 01:31 PM
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I counted 312 elk in one heard once . It was a couple weeks before archery season , no big bulls , just a few juveniles


I did see over 600 once , scattered over an open hillside on private property . Probably over an area of a couple hundred acres or more . It was late fall , but I suspect those were several herds congregating together in the same area every evening

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Re: What is the largest herd of wild animals you seen [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7718276
11/15/22 01:57 PM
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Couple thousand elk migrating out of Yellowstone before wolves were introduced. Many times.


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Re: What is the largest herd of wild animals you seen [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7718377
11/15/22 04:18 PM
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Pronghorn by the hundreds, maybe thousand in winter and elk herd up early in the area we hunt.

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Re: What is the largest herd of wild animals you seen [Re: waggler] #7718381
11/15/22 04:28 PM
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Kuujuaq is in Nunavut, Northern Quebec on Ungava Bay. We were working on the caribou there one time in the mid '80's. Came on day 1 and the deer (what we call caribou) were crossing the Koksoak River all up and down as far as you could see. We left 3 days later and they were still crossing all up and down as far as you could see, going east, to the calving ground in Labrador. This was in April. Herd was over 500,000 as the time and we hit peak spring migration. Seen a lot of caribou over a lifetime before and since but nothing like that time. Memory of a lifetime and can only imagine how the buffalo must have been back in the day similar.

Re: What is the largest herd of wild animals you seen [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7718423
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In the early 2000's a group of us were camping, ATVing in from Eureka, Alaska. Some guys were Grayling fishing and two of us went for a ride. When we got around the hill we saw a scene out of National Geographic. The earth seemed like it was moving there were so many Caribou. There were Caribou as far as you could see in a large valley. I'm guessing we could see about 4 miles ahead and the view was about 2 miles wide and more than half full of slow moving Caribou. Another Spectacular trip in Alaska.
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Re: What is the largest herd of wild animals you seen [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7718425
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Re: What is the largest herd of wild animals you seen [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7718480
11/15/22 07:05 PM
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Re: What is the largest herd of wild animals you seen [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7718563
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Re: What is the largest herd of wild animals you seen [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7718618
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About 30,000 when the Labrador-Quebec caribou herd was at its peak.

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Re: What is the largest herd of wild animals you seen [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7718706
11/16/22 12:05 AM
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Thousands of elk on Decker Flats outside of Gardiner when they move you thought the ground was moving as mentioned above then they introduced the wolves .


Re: What is the largest herd of wild animals you seen [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7718821
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caribou it was incredible

Re: What is the largest herd of wild animals you seen [Re: Grandpa Trapper] #7718922
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When PA still had wild ringneck pheasants more than once we would flush up to fifty birds from one field or overgrown area .And before the days of bonus tags and antler restrictions I remember a day that I saw my first deer of the day about 7:15 AM .And I had at least a few within sight the rest of the day About noon I quit counting them .But I had reached 50 by then . And just a few years ago now I was hunting the last afternoon of the combined buck /doe rifle season in one of the southern PA counties .I had not killed a deer yet that year and time was quickly running out .As I made my way to a spot I wanted to check I moved slowly and was looking for any sign of deer nearby .As I stood looking up into a brushy valley I heard deer approaching .It sounded like maybe 6 or 7 .I searched for a buck but did not see any I was thinking about taking a doe when I again heard more deer coming .3 OR 4 came into view but still no buck .Again as I looked to pick out a nice doe I heard more deer approaching .. Hoping for a buck I scanned the hillside looking to see a glint of sunlight off of an antler But 5 or 6 more doe showed .So I was looking at about a dozen doe and wanted to kill a big one .They did not seem spooked and I was trying to be calm and not rush .I heard even more deer walking in the deep leaves on the hillside they where on Surely I thought this will be the buck . But this small group was as vacant of horns as the rest of the group .At least two more times I heard deer walking in my direction And they just did not seem to have even a small buck among .That would not have been legal I was. equally as dumbfound that I was looking at al those deer and could not find a buck in the entire herd as I was to see that many der in one herd .. With about 2 hours of hunting time left I THOUHJT i WAS FOR SURE GOING TO AT LEAST GET A DOE . As they side hilled their way along they worked their way to the top edge of where the woods and fields met . The farmer had a fenced area about 70 yards out into the fields where he pastured horses that he boarded. The whole herd of deer in one big ball was standing at the edge of the woods looking out into the fields I did not want to shot one in the hind quarters .And by this point with the horses out in the pasture my chance at a shot where rapidly fading .Still believing that there was no way I WAS NOT GOING TO KILL ONE OF THOSE DEER I kept waiting for the perfect shot .This whole event was about 15 to 20 minutes in the making Some way or another at least 22 deer worked their way around me in a 15 to 20 minute time span .And I WAS EITHER TO GREEDY BY HOLDING OUT FOR THE BUCK THAT NEVER APPEARED or by passing up several shots at large doe I again learned the lesson about one in hand is better than 22 in the brush .Finally the der where out of sight and I could not fathom how I had so badly messed up such a last chance gift It was dumped in my lap gift wrapped in a way that I could not do anything but succeed and yet it did not work out .Looking back on it. It was a totally cool hunt to be a part of . I had trouble counting all of them but it had to be at least 22 deer and maybe 4 to 6 more .I can't say I was pleased with the result of the event .But it was a hunt I will treasure for as long as I live I waited for a buck but that was not in the cards Them safety became and issue so what was surefire turned into a lost chance at an end of the season kill. But I can still see al those deer standing on the hill on a sunny Sat afternoon . The memory just might be better than what killing one of them would have been.

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Re: What is the largest herd of wild animals you seen [Re: w side rd 151] #7718945
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185 feral horses before I lost count.... man what a disappointment.....


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