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Offline jrfrmn

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Canned Elk Hunt
« on: December 27, 2008, 06:34:35 PM »
Opinion please?
 Do any of you hunters that hunt Elk in Colorado consider Kentucky Elk to be a canned hunt, compared to your state and other western states?
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Re: Canned Elk Hunt
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2008, 07:28:44 PM »
 Quite honestly I can't see as how location would make it a bad hunt. As long as it's free chase. When we first moved out here my wife went crazy one morning screaming. She ran out the door with a broom and proceeded to try to hit an elk eating her shrubs. One was wallering in the jacuzzi on the deck with a few others drinking out of it.  Well I had to help out and get one for the pot in the process. My neighbor is 15 miles away, so no development pressure. They showed up each morning and she ran them off when she caught em. After the first year I built an enclosed deck to keep them out of it. They would leave a few pounds of dirt in the water from wallering. They were crossing a stream of running water to get to the heated water. Ended up getting 2 that year on the deck.
 I take 2 elk each year for food. Not a particularly hard animal to hunt. It may actually be harder in Ky since the land is flatter. Not as likely to find vantage point to spot then stalk.
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Re: Canned Elk Hunt
« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2008, 05:00:15 AM »
 ;D OK Deathhead
What are the coordinates of your place? Sharing the jacuzzi with an elk boggles my mind.
I may want to drop in some day :-))
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Re: Canned Elk Hunt
« Reply #3 on: December 28, 2008, 01:42:34 PM »
kentucky are not canned in by high fences. So no, i wouldnt call a free ranging elk in kentucky a canned hunt.

Canned hunts are where you and the animals are both behind a high fence where you KNOW animals will be.

Watch those hunting shows on TV where they go to a plantation and shoot those massive deer and try to brag about the size of the deer antlers.
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Re: Canned Elk Hunt
« Reply #4 on: December 28, 2008, 05:33:16 PM »
  Sie verstanden das deutsche Wort totenkopf mein Freund
 Come on BBF, I didn't even get into the weeder geese in the food plots trying to fight with the deer 40 yards from the house. Or the tom turkey that chases the deer out of the feed shed when they try to go in there and rob the sweet feed. They knock the plywood and cinder block off the barrels and have a hay day. And having to wait for the moose to get out of the trail on the way to hunt elk. You'd feel guilty if you came out here, couldn't call yourself a hunter anymore. ;)

jrfrmn, I still think it would be more chalenging in KY, there can't be a very large population. Last I heard was an effort to stock them in the land between the lakes on one of the hunting shows.
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Re: Canned Elk Hunt
« Reply #5 on: December 29, 2008, 06:29:04 AM »
LOL  ;D
Now you are pouring salt into my wounds. PM me your coordinates, we wouldn't want a stampede to your place now.
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Re: Canned Elk Hunt
« Reply #6 on: December 29, 2008, 06:58:29 AM »
Canned hunting is a loaded term and a funny thing. I've hunted on a 500 acre high fence ranch in Texas where the pigs were both paranoid and smart; four out of the five of us on the trip got nothing, and there were plenty of pigs on the ranch.

I was also in South Africa hunting on a 75,000 acre ranch where some of the species were as dumb as a box of rocks.

There's more to fair chase than the size of the land parcel.
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Re: Canned Elk Hunt
« Reply #7 on: December 29, 2008, 04:29:30 PM »
Don't have any personal experience with them but know a fellow who went to Africa on a plains game hunt and saw pictures and video where they(PH) kept maned lions in a steel inclosure so when a client wanted a cat they would release them a day or two before the hunt(??) The cats would'nt go far as they had been fed and watered for a while. Did'nt ask how they rounded them up in the first place, maybe tranked? That to me is a canned hunt. Can't recomend that outfit for a fair chase hunt!!!
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