Elk in my pasture

[Jeff Roark]

Here is a few vids I took the other morning messing around with a young bull in my pasture. I was planning on doing a stalk to get as close as I could to him but it sure didn't work at all with me trying to watch the camera while going through the thick weeds, so I threw all that to the wind. I could have shot him several times during our playtime.

 

 

 

lucky I didn't have a tag in my pocket!

[Jeff Roark]

by the way I am terrible with a camera, I mean real bad.

[TLANE]

Wherabouts are you at in Kentucky?  Kinda looks like the area my Grandparents were from in Breathitt Co..  I've went down there several times in the past few years to look at the elk...I love it!  Have you ever found any big sheds?  The first time I went I found a small set of spikes about 6" long.  We were on an old strip between Hazard & Jackson.

[broketooth]

that is just awesome, very cool videos

[YORNOC]

I want my own pasture!

[Jeff Roark]

TLANE,

I'm not far from Breathitt. Clay borders Perry and Owsley which border Breathitt. I haven't found any big sheds but my Dad, brother and cousin have all found some big ones. My cousin found an absolute monster dead and the horns was still on the skull.

[straitera]

Number 1 on my list. This was great. Thanks

[TLANE]

You're so lucky to live in the East and have wild elk!  WV has been doing feasability studies and thinking about stocking elk but are afraid of CWD.  Eventually though they will be here, there is quite a few now in Martin Co.  There was a cow that was hit by a car on interstate 64 near Huntington a few years ago.

[Jeff Roark]

yeah they are spreading like crazy here. We are also getting quite the number of black bear also.

[buckster]

Very nice video Jeff, amazing how close you can get when you have no tag.  LOL.

[PA-Spot]

Think you need a yard mantainence man. Have mower will travel.

[Jeff Roark]

Originally posted by PA-Spot:
Think you need a yard mantainence man. Have mower will travel.

no, no, no! I am only in one little acre of my 7 acre pasture that I let grow up for these purposes. Over the past 10 years I have had a nice scrape line on the backside of this little spot and the deer just love the cover. They can step out of it into the clover and grass and just right back in if need be. I'd thought about mowing 2 lanes through it, but decided not to.

yeah its amazing what you can see when you can't harvest it.

[BRONZ]

That's some great footage!  Fun stuff!