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Leonard
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posted March 26, 2021 06:13 AM
Yesterday morning, my grandson Aaron and his wife and daughter arrived from Fountain, Colorado.
Not without a little drama. An elk tried to jump over the van somewhere in the lower southwest part of the state.
So, my question. No antlers but they seemed to think it was too big to be a cow. When do bulls drop their rack or exactly when, what time of year, are they bald headed, because I really don't know?
Good hunting. El Bee
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Aznative
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posted March 26, 2021 07:12 AM
I do believe they drop sometime during the last stages of winter. Because food is so scarce in the winter, the body shuts down blood flow to the antlers causing the antlers to eventually drop. I believe it would vary based upon the severity of winter and when winter really got going. Also the condition of the bull. A breeding bull is spent after servicing a harem with a bunch cows. Many bulls that breed in Colorado usually die that winter being they have exhausted their fat reserves and lack good winter feed areas at lower elevations. Arizona grows the biggest trophy bulls because they just need to migrate to lower elevations to find food. I am no expert but this information is what I have gathered over the years.
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Kokopelli
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posted March 26, 2021 07:25 AM
Apparently depends on the when and the where. Northern bulls in late Dec. to Southern ones all the way into late April.
We were bowfishing the back side of Tinnamaha (sp?) Res. for carp one spring and spooked a herd of Tule Elk. They still had their antlers and were totally white head to hoof from the alkali dust. Looked really freaky !!!!
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Paul Melching
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posted March 26, 2021 12:24 PM
They drop in late winter I have had some try to cross the road in front of me in full rack had we connected my wife would be dead Very frightening !
We were in a motorhome with a large windshield !we have a lot of elk up here in northern Arizona and they are all huge !I set out a trail cam and have pics of them on a small kiddie pool I fill with water ! Mountain lion and fox , coyote and bobcat as well!
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Leonard
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posted March 26, 2021 03:05 PM
So, he was right that it was probably a bull? Then, when is new growth starting to show, this encounter happened in late March? It was for sure an elk but his indication was that it was a bull strictly based on the size. But, he never slowed down and they didn't actually stop either, but the impact seemed to be about 5 MPH. They missed him but he turned and tried to jump the van, I mean he did jump the van.
I had that happen with a buck mule deer once. At night. I damned near hit a huge beaver one night way up high by that ski resort in Utah. I thought it was a bear, but what was he doing at that elevation middle of the night. I actually did hit the biggest porcupine I've ever saw in an unlikely spot very close to the Tom Mix monument on the old road. Same thing, you just don't expect one of them critters in that area, middle of the night. And, with all the road kill I've seen going back 50 years or so, I did hit a coyote once down by Gila Bend. Around midnight or pretty close.
Good hunting. El Bee
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