Anyone need a bull elk

Fritz the Cat

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I live in Unit E-5. Anyone with a ND elk license can hunt this Unit.

A six by six showed up this morning. About 300SCI. Healthy body and dark cape.

Usually my neighbors spot these satellite bulls and call someone with a tag before I even know about it. Not this one, he is holed up in the trees/ravine behind my yard.

Ten days ago a guy from Pingree got one with a ND Game and Fish tracking collar. Interesting stuff how they captured him with a helicopter and where he traveled from.

PM me. They don't always stick around but I think this one isn't going anywhere for a few days.
 


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No cows.

He must be in the trees right now. Am not going close because I don't want to bump him.

This morning he was doing a little sparring action with my bull. Didn't have a camera with.

These satellite bulls are looking for a harem of their own after getting pushed out of their home range during the rut which peaks around Sept. 26th. A walk about of a hundred miles one way is nothing.

Last year a bull with a tracking collar traveled from north of Killdeer (right south of the lake) to my place south of Hazen. He spent just two days and ventured back north.
 

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I live in Unit E-5. Anyone with a ND elk license can hunt this Unit.

A six by six showed up this morning. About 300SCI. Healthy body and dark cape.

Usually my neighbors spot these satellite bulls and call someone with a tag before I even know about it. Not this one, he is holed up in the trees/ravine behind my yard.

Ten days ago a guy from Pingree got one with a ND Game and Fish tracking collar. Interesting stuff how they captured him with a helicopter and where he traveled from.

PM me. They don't always stick around but I think this one isn't going anywhere for a few days.

Class move right there...tip of the cap to ya sir.
 


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Nonetheless, it's way better of Fritz offering him up to a ND sportsman than allowing NDGF to help remove a problem elk from his operation.

Because, I do believe that is still an option available to cervid ranches.

So I too say, good on ya, Fritz.
 

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Nonetheless, it's way better of Fritz offering him up to a ND sportsman than allowing NDGF to help remove a problem elk from his operation.

Because, I do believe that is still an option available to cervid ranches.

So I too say, good on ya, Fritz.
The problem elk are inside the fence IMO
 

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I agree, good on you Fritz. Had a friend that got a tag and the same issue was happening to a guy north of town. Wild bull trying to get into the fence. 1 phone call and problem solved and a ND tag filled and freezer full. :;:rockit

Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one, don't pay any attention to NDsportsman.
 


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Went out at dusk and he is still here. If someone tags him I believe this will be number eleven in the last nine years. Three or four were taken by sportswomen.

My favorite was a lady from Dickinson who arrived by herself. Her boyfriend went to an auction sale instead. Capable, good looking and someone should have stole her away from that putz.
 

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He is still here this morning. So far only one private message from a nodakangler who knows someone with a bull tag.

About two weeks ago a fellow got a bull here with a North Dakota Game and Fish collar. A very nice bull. Dressed out he hung 470 pounds. That is flippin huge. The one here now is younger and smaller.

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Sounds like a great hunt - walk up to pasture where he’s coming in see him and shoot what a hunt
 

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Sounds like a great hunt - walk up to pasture where he’s coming in see him and shoot what a hunt

It took two days. The first day this collared bull was a no show. He was a mile west hanging out on my cousins property. I didn't know the guys were staked out sitting all day.

Day two he was moving about at sun rise. Bang

The guys called Game and Fish. A biologist came out and removed the collar. He asked if the guy wanted a replacement dummy collar to put on the head mount. Yes sir.
 
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Hi I have a bull elk tag I live in Fargo and would love to hunt out there if he is still there my number is 701-361-6746 my name is Clayton.
 

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Sounds like a great hunt - walk up to pasture where he’s coming in see him and shoot what a hunt

Sounds like a great hunt to me. As long as he's not raised in a HF like a pet, and is wild. WTF if he wants to walk up to a hunter and commit suicide so be it.
 


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