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Flatbush Harry
10-01-2012, 12:12pm
Over the last months, I've been looking at some of our country and exploring places of interest. Here are a few pics:

This is Half Dome in Yosemite National Park

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j126/flatbush_harry/DSC01679_zps35dcc7a0.jpg

Some of you may recognize this shot from the Black Hills of South Dakota

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j126/flatbush_harry/DSC01616_zpsee05c8a6.jpg

A nice overhead from near LAX

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j126/flatbush_harry/Image_zpsf9f1c355.jpg

...and for those of you who admire some of nature's creature folk

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j126/flatbush_harry/DSC01704_zps84beab64.jpg

This bull, that I saw yesterday in Estes Park, CO (about 80 mi from where I live), was tending to his harem, keeping a few satellite bulls at bay and generally getting himself ready for mating (this weekend was the peak of the rut) and hunting season. You Easterners would call this a 14-point bull; in CO we call this a 7-by. I estimate this bull ran about 1,200 pounds. He had a harem of 28 cows with him. This is why my latest blunderbuss is a .375 H&H Magnum. I hope to remake his acquaintance in 4 weeks.

Hrayr, who thinks PETA stands for "People Eating Tasty Animals" or "Poached Elk Tastes Awful"
snide
10-01-2012, 12:14pm
:cool:
Yerf Dog
10-01-2012, 12:38pm
I hope to remake his acquaintance in 4 weeks.

:cool1:

Good luck! :seasix:
Kerrmudgeon
10-01-2012, 12:44pm
Do they allow hunting on state parks? Estes park, is that a state park. Shame to deprive those cows of some of that champion's stuff in the years to come. :sadangel:
Flatbush Harry
10-01-2012, 12:56pm
Do they allow hunting on state parks? Estes park, is that a state park. Shame to deprive those cows of some of that champion's stuff in the years to come. :sadangel:

Actually, you can't hunt in the City of Estes Park itself, nor is it ever legal to hunt in a US National Park. Indeed, CO has specified game management units with Dept of Wildlife harvest quotas for which licenses may be drawn and hunters may not hunt outside of their specified GMUs.

We have about 300,000 elk in our herds here and they are carefully managed.

:cert:

Hyarr

EDIT: Bit low on the herd estimate...the correct number is closer to 300,000...we're the Disneyworld of Elk out here.
Bucwheat
10-01-2012, 1:12pm
Cool shots
Kerrmudgeon
10-01-2012, 1:15pm
Beautiful pictures, by the way, Harold...bonvivant-of-the-world! :seasix:
jaxgator
10-01-2012, 2:09pm
:cool1:
Flatbush Harry
10-01-2012, 3:25pm
BTW, I was reviewing the photos again and I think I posted a pic of one of the satellite bulls earlier. Here's Mr. Big with his a few of the gals in his harem (aka Mr. Clinton):

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j126/flatbush_harry/DSC01702_zps76af975f.jpg

yaHrr

PS- In the next frame, one of the gals said, in her inimitable way, "Big Boy, I'm warm for your form!"

He responded shortly (to coin a phrase) thereafter.

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j126/flatbush_harry/DSC01701_zps0bea8498.jpg

PPS-I'm ready for 4th rifle season...here's a 10 shot practice group done recently at 100 yards with my go-to Winny Mod70 EW in .30-06:

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j126/flatbush_harry/81094cf7.jpg