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Post by leatherstocking on Sept 22, 2015 21:03:06 GMT -7
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Post by TurkeyCreek on Sept 23, 2015 6:34:57 GMT -7
Yes, very sad. And yes, part of nature and man rubbing up against each other. They were certainly magnificent animals! I would rather hunt elk than any other animal on earth! Glorious creatures! Always hate to see something like this but it is actually no different in the end than one being taken down by wolves or dying from natural causes and being eaten by scavengers. Glad they utilized the meat from these two. That ends up honoring them in the end rather than wasting them.
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Post by leatherstocking on Sept 23, 2015 7:57:03 GMT -7
Max
Back when I was a hunter's Ed instructor in Colorado, .... we would often say in defense of hunting "everything in the wild dies violently". As you say.....these two old boys were saved from being wasted. I heard my first bugle about a week or so ago....sometimes they make so much racket down in the ponds that it's hard to sleep at night. However it was so dry this summer that the ponds dried up for the first time in many years....and hasn't been any rain to refill them so not sure the local herd will be around much.
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Post by TurkeyCreek on Sept 23, 2015 8:37:50 GMT -7
Doug, I have to say it; I'm envious! I sure do miss that country and to have elk as close to the house as you do is pure icing on the cake! Enjoy it brother!!! Pray for rain and trust that He will provide what is needed.
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Post by TurkeyCreek on Sept 23, 2015 8:45:43 GMT -7
In our library room in our house we have a large framed and matted photo print hanging on the wall. It is of a bull elk carcass in the snow, mostly down to the skeleton, with a coyote and a magpie working on it. It isn't gross or offending; it is a most natural scene. My wife even likes it because she understands it. It is a most wonderful part of our world. God didn't make us to be in these buildings surrounded by steel and concrete and traffic sounds and sirens, etc. He made us, and I think just about everyone on this forum understands this, to be out in His creation and the life and death struggle is part of that, not as original intent, but part of it all the same! I feel so incomplete and confined unless I am "out there" even when "out there" is just being at home in the country where I can hear the coyotes and owls of an evening.
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