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JW_Halverson:
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--- Quote from: osage outlaw on December 02, 2013, 03:46:17 pm --- They have been introduced in KY since then.
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No way, really?
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Some of the states around Kentucky are now offering elk tags because the KY elk are leaving their habitats and expanding their range. One of the more successful stories of game animal re-introduction. And best of all, they are all producing some pretty respectable trophies.
toomanyknots:
--- Quote from: JW_Halverson on December 15, 2013, 06:07:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: toomanyknots on December 15, 2013, 05:07:53 pm ---
--- Quote from: osage outlaw on December 02, 2013, 03:46:17 pm --- They have been introduced in KY since then.
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No way, really?
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Some of the states around Kentucky are now offering elk tags because the KY elk are leaving their habitats and expanding their range. One of the more successful stories of game animal re-introduction. And best of all, they are all producing some pretty respectable trophies.
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Just looked it up, that is awesome, and at the same time scary, those guys are big! I am just like 30 minutes or so from kentucky.
RabidApache:
Its about 8am and I'm starving sitting in quicky blind I had made for spring turkey. I was ready to bail and move to another position. But now I hear a faint yelp coming from the west. My blind is facing more east but I shift and get ready. Season is early and gobblers were pretty tight lipped. Well anyway I'm sitting shotgun at the ready.
All of a sudden I see scattered turkey everywhere, clucking and Pitt calls echo through the ponderosa forest. I'm thinking did the turkeys see me or WTH is going on.
I see a turkey zigging and zagging and suddenly from under the canopy a golden eagle grabs the young hen. The hen is flopping and kicking for dear life while eagle is clutching with one talon on the turkey. As the turkey continues to struggle she comes free! Now the eagle is just sitting there with a pile of feathers all scattered about. I was amazed to see a golden from out of no where like a stealth bomber. I'm thinking thats one badazz bird.
All this in front of me at 80yds!
Thesquirrelslinger:
I live in kentucky.
Semi-rural kentucky,
I swear there are some pretty freaking big things wandering around in forested areas after dark. Or even around neighborhoods.
whenever I sleep over at my friend's house, we always go night biking. His parents own a pretty big farm, with plenty of woodland. People hunt there frequently. its far enough from civilization that there are no druggies, etc.
one time we were biking through some well-defined trails at around 11ish. We both have pretty powerful flashlights mounted on our bikes as headlights, and they work well. We were going by a creek, which is in the bottom of a valley, and we both heard a loud splash, and then a thud. We had no idea what it was, and we decided to be dumb teenagers and find out. We both had machetes, and I had a sling and 5 lead glans as well. I sent one of those glandes in the area of thud, and we heard a softer thud. I assumed we missed whatever it was, as its the sound you get from hitting pine-needle-covered ground. never did find out if so. We then decided to get closer(about 30 yards). Its pitch black, and this a pretty dense forest. We saw nothing, and were considering taking the flashlights off our bikes. well, we heard a really loud sound like a breaking limb, but loud enough that it sounded like a tree. (this place is covered in pines, ERC, spruce, etc). and then we hear it agian, so we just decided to get out of there. His dad has heard this thing too, usually while out at night- although he has heard a splash far away in the evening. We went back the next day, and found no tracks except a LARGE stone(softball sized) sitting near the sling gland's track(when it hits the ground, it makes a long, thin groove). it looked just like a stone from his creek.
Marks:
I called an owl up about 10-15 ft from me on Christmas eve. I was sitting in a tent blind and saw him land about 75 yds down the field. I lip squeaked and he came flying up right beside me. Same place earlier this year I saw a coyote run face first into a small tree. I've seen a redtail hawk miss a squirrel. I've seen a gobbler breed a hen on 2 occasions. No Squatches.
Freakiest thing that ever happened to me hunting was when I was 15. I had just started deer hunting and my brother dropped me off in the pasture to walk to a ladder stand about 50-75 yds in the woods before daylight. I didn't carry a flashlight because I knew the spot well and didn't need one. As I was walking thru the underbrush I look up and there is a floating white glowing face staring at me from 10 ft away. I bout crapped myself. It was just a dark maroon cow with a solid white face but in the dark all I could see was the face and it freaked me out pretty good for a minute.
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