Elk on side of road!!!!!!!

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davide montini

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so it's Sunday ... I decide to pull out the bike and go for a ride ( Ducati 1198 sps )and I'm going for a ride a bit in the country to enjoy the open road ..... So then I decide to take an off ramp .... Those ramps are fun at hooligan speeds..lol.... So I go around. And around (wee !!!) and then out of the corner of my eye I see something move ....I thought it was the branches!!!...... Holy o cow !!!!!! Hit the brakes hard nearly high side the bike!!!!!! DIO Cain!!!!! That's Italian for something !!!!!!!lol lol standing there are two freakin big Bulls ....elk.... So naturally stop go for phone to get pictures!!!! They walk away ... So I walk off the road into the little field to see .... I walked about 100 feet from them ....ahh man what a sight to see..... And of course the iPhone 4. Camera is a piece of sh$t !!!! I'm telling you folks what Hugh!!! Racks on them ... Head down head up ah man I counted 13 points on one and 8 on other ..... But hear in Sudbury??????? I see them on wild TV in Alberta ?????? And seen them once before around parry sound .... Ahhh very nice to see and what a day .... That made my day!!! I have pics and video but I have no clue how to post them hear with my iPhone .!!!!!!!!!!
 
GoPro or some other helmet cam is a great device to get, all those "barely saw it" things are captured hands free!
 
Stumbled on an interesting fact this morning. Apparently the first elk, in the Sundre area, wasn't spotted till 1925. Alberta's elk were virtually eradicated and re introduced with animals from Yellowstone. Skip forward 75 years and some of their descendants made it to Ontario.

Grizz
 
Some of Ontario's first reintroductions were in the Blind River area. I can remember seeing a thank you plaque on the wall at the Blind River Anglers and Hunters/Shedden Shooters Club from the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation for donations to the foundation while attending a 4 gun skeet tournament there about a decade or so ago.
 
SA nagant said:
Elk were native to the area until they were pretty much erradicated. In 1998 they re-introduced them in Burwash, and now there is a healthy population in the burwash/highway 637 area. There is no open hunting season.

http://www.sudburyelk.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=43
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Elk have been in the Burwash area since the at least the 50's. Can't remember the exact story of how or the exact circumstances on how they got there. We were stationed in Still River/Britt area in the early 50's and mid 60's and there was a herd of Elk in the Burwash area then. They very well could have dropped a few more off to compliment the herd when doing the re-introduction program. Not surprising then that the OP spotted a few taking in the sights of Sudbury, only a short walk north from Burwash to Sudbury for an Elk.
 
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