The bull featured in this video was all upset today. It seems he managed to get a rope of some sort firmly wrapped around the base of his left antler. The ropes presence seems to have sent him into a rage as he has been chasing and attacking everything that gets in his path. That includes trees, branches other elk and quite honestly himself. When he was not chasing or sparring he was thrashing around wildly trying to relieve himself of the rope.
In the video below he picks a fight with a bull of equal size and in doing so breaks a tine during the bout. The battle lasted several minutes with a small portion, including the moment he breaks his tine, being captured on video. The roped bull seemed to be doing quite well against the other, but after breaking the tine seemed to give up on the fight and flee to safety.
That of course did not stop him from taking a shot a cow who was minding her own business as well as a couple trees that refused to step aside. He later seemed to calm down and continue on his way but it was obvious he was not content having the rope tag along.
I hate that this fella lost this, but I am extremely pleased he did so right in front of us where I could walk over and pick it up. It is not much to look at, but to me it is a treasure I’ll keep always.
THAT is so cool!
Very, very cool………wish I had been there!!!!
Joe, nice clip of the 2 bulls fighting.
Nice video, nice find!
Great video. Talk about being at the right place at the right time. Good job. Keep up the good work. Wish I was there.
This video was great. That bull was upset. How close were you to them? Must have been neat to see that but the way he was acting I wouldn’t want to have been to close to him. Now Joe, this is a start. Next picture hopefully you will be holding more than a tine.
The elk were about 30 yards away and coming closer during this match. We try to keep as much distance as possible, but this particular time the herd appeared to be very hungry and since people = food source to them they kept getting closer and closer.
I truly hope that we find a shed, but we really only plan on going to state lands this year, and our back yard, so I doubt we will find any. I am still giddy about the tine so if I never find anything else this will be a great memory for us.
Thanks to all who have commented so far we always enjoy hearing from you.