elk in tx
#1
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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elk in tx
i was going to my deer blind saturday morning and i get there and get settled and everything so about 45mins to an hour roll around i hear something back to my right coming towards me and i look and it was a elk. so i watch it as it walks by tempting to shoot it but thinking about all the big tickets and fines i would get so it passes through and so later that evening i go back to the diner to grab a burger and i start telling everyone about what i saw and this gentlmen stand up and ask me about where i saw it and i told him and to figure out that he has a exotic hunting place over to the west of my hunting lease
#3
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RE: elk in tx
well you know where wichita falls is. just a little west of there is a littl town called crowell and just a little north ofthere is where i was hunting but i never heard of a herd of elk down this way but there might be some closer to the odessa out west but i really couldnt tll you the truth im just guessing
#4
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Houston TX
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RE: elk in tx
I believe Elk are considered exotics here in Texas (non-native). If that is so, there should be no closed season, no bag limit. Unless, of course, you weren't sure exactly who's land you were on. Wouldn't want you to shoot a man's elk on his own land without his permission. Does anyone know the status of elk in Texas for sure?
#5
Join Date: Sep 2005
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RE: elk in tx
Susquatch you are right in that elk are considered exotices in Texas. The only elk in Texas I know of are either behind high fence or have gotten out of high fence. I have a lease up around Quitaque (west texas area) and last year I hear there was an Elk wondering around there. The guys on my lease with me said they could have shot it but just let it pass. Sounds like a few weeks later some dumb kid shot it off the road and was bragging about a 6x6 he shot. Needless to say the warden was not to happy.
#7
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Aledo, TX. USA
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RE: elk in tx
There was a 900lb elk taken in Tulia a couple of years ago. Seems that fires in the New Mexico mountains pushed elk out of their rangeinto the panhandle of Texas. I wouldn't shoot one at this time in hopes that they could build a herd. Larry