Elk farm in Indiana

[archerycharlie]

Thought you all mite like to see these biggins just down the road from my house. charlie
www.keetonelk.com

[scooter]

Thought you all mite like to see these biggins just down the road from my house. charlie
www.keetonelk.com

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU..........Those are some big elk...HOLY CRAP!

http://www.keetonelk.com/images/kingkong_frtpg.jpg
King Kong
Largest Bull Ever
543 SCI at 7

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[swampdonkey]

Cool pictures...You don't want to be walking around there with bow in hand :lol: :) could find yourself in a mess of trouble but having elk like that so close sure would keep you spirts up and waiting for opening day when you will be able to get out and find sometihing similar to those elk up in the foothills

Cool pics.....Swampdonkey

[petew]

Real hunters don't suport wild game farming!!!

[scooter]

Real hunters don't suport wild game farming!!!

Not a one person that has replied to this topic has condoned Penned Hunting or game farming. We just said they were nice animals...

Do they have to be wild animals to be impressive? I think not...But thanks for the input plasticpail. :roll: :roll:

[petew]

They are Impressive.But !! Game farms are undermining the type of hunting we know now.They are also a major CWD concern.
Sorry but I don't have much use for game farms and the animals they produce.I bet that Bull didn't grow those antlers on a diet of alfalfa.
When we promote Game farming in any way we put a nail in the hunting coffin.

[sir_huntsalot]

C'mon Plasticpail be nice :) No one jumped on you and said you supported game farm hunting when you were the only one that stuck up for the lion killers. Lets keep the site friendly 8)

[archerycharlie]

There is no hunting on this farm. If it wasen't for places like this there wouldn't be any deer or elk or turkeys roaming the land today. If someone hadn't raised the deer and then had them turned loose here in Indiana i would't be able to look out my back door and see deer every day or go deer hunting here in Indiana. If it hadn't been for someone raising these elk somewhere there would not be any elk roaming around out west. charlie
P--please
E--eat
T--tasty
A--animals

[Jack19]

I'm gonna have to agree with plasticpail on this one. Game farms and animals raised on game farms don't impress me at all, you may as well show me a picture of a domestic cow cause to me its the same thing.( no offence archerycharlie this is not a personal attack on you, just my opinion.)

You also say that without game farms there would be no elk in the west. I could be wrong but I have never heard of elk being trasplanted from an elk farm, elk transplants usually come from national parks. As far as the deer in your state go I don't know where they came from.

[scooter]

I'm gonna have to agree with plasticpail on this one. Game farms and animals raised on game farms don't impress me at all, you may as well show me a picture of a domestic cow cause to me its the same thing.( no offence archerycharlie this is not a personal attack on you, just my opinion.)

You also say that without game farms there would be no elk in the west. I could be wrong but I have never heard of elk being trasplanted from an elk farm, elk transplants usually come from national parks. As far as the deer in your state go I don't know where they came from.

I agree with plasticpail on the aspect of Game Farming and Penned hunting...But an impressive animal is an impressive animal...wether or not it was raised on a farm or in the woods. I don't give a shit where or how it's raised...It's a nice animal. Will I go and hunt it? No. Can I look at it? Yes.

[BlueNorther]

Farm elk have never been used to restock wild herds in the west.Quite the opposite,wild elk were being taken to establish the first game farms.The elk herds in the west have been successful due to sound game management.

Elk at one time were almost non-existant in Banff Nat'l park.The people of Wyoming and Montana made a generous donation of elk from Yellowstone Nat'l park to replenish the herd here.Most of the elk you see in Banff are the descendants of the Yellowstone herd.

I'm not a big fan of game farms either but I agree Warden,I appreciate seeing and admiring a magnificent bull like that one.

[Jack19]

I'm gonna have to agree with plasticpail on this one. Game farms and animals raised on game farms don't impress me at all, you may as well show me a picture of a domestic cow cause to me its the same thing.( no offence archerycharlie this is not a personal attack on you, just my opinion.)

You also say that without game farms there would be no elk in the west. I could be wrong but I have never heard of elk being trasplanted from an elk farm, elk transplants usually come from national parks. As far as the deer in your state go I don't know where they came from.

I agree with plasticpail on the aspect of Game Farming and Penned hunting...But an impressive animal is an impressive animal...wether or not it was raised on a farm or in the woods. I don't give a shit where or how it's raised...It's a nice animal. Will I go and hunt it? No. Can I look at it? Yes.


Nobdy said you were gonna go hunt them or that couldn't look at the them. All I'm saying is its pretty easy for farm animals to get big like because of their diet and that is why you don't see them in the wild that much and that is why they do not impress me.

just my opinion sorry if I pissed anyone off.

[sir_huntsalot]

When I look at an impressive animal raised on a game farm I do not even campare it to a wild animal. In my eyes they are two different breeds and can not really be compared. Although a game farm animal like the elk in the picture or Golieth the whitetail may be impressive to look at I really dont think of them in the same way as a wild animal. I look at them and say nice rack but it's just a farm raised animal thats pumped up on who knows what. Kinda like all the Hollywood women these days filled up with silicone , nice to look at but not natural so not really to impressive compared to a woman with a natural rack lol.

[Dillershortbow]

I dont agree with game farms bacause thay treat them with antbeotics to keep them alive if they get loose in the wild herd decease wipes them .Domestic sheep have wiped out many herds of big horns

[scooter]

I'm gonna have to agree with plasticpail on this one. Game farms and animals raised on game farms don't impress me at all, you may as well show me a picture of a domestic cow cause to me its the same thing.( no offence archerycharlie this is not a personal attack on you, just my opinion.)

You also say that without game farms there would be no elk in the west. I could be wrong but I have never heard of elk being trasplanted from an elk farm, elk transplants usually come from national parks. As far as the deer in your state go I don't know where they came from.

I agree with plasticpail on the aspect of Game Farming and Penned hunting...But an impressive animal is an impressive animal...wether or not it was raised on a farm or in the woods. I don't give a shit where or how it's raised...It's a nice animal. Will I go and hunt it? No. Can I look at it? Yes.


Nobdy said you were gonna go hunt them or that couldn't look at the them. All I'm saying is its pretty easy for farm animals to get big like because of their diet and that is why you don't see them in the wild that much and that is why they do not impress me.

just my opinion sorry if I pissed anyone off.

Not pissed off....Just sharing my opinion on the matter :lol: :wink:

[manford]

This has turned out to be a pretty touchy post. First off I think those are beuatiful pictures of elk and who ever raised them should be proud. I see nothing wrong with raising them for consumption. To me its no different then raising beef,pigs,chickens or whatever. how can it be? Disagreeing with raising one type of animal for food but not the other is like disagreeing with logging but wiping your as- with toilet paper. I love looking at these animals because thats the way i was born and raised its something with in all of us that we cant help. Where the animal comes from I could care less its still great to look at them. Keep them coming ArcheryCharlie I'll keep looking at them. P.S. just a friendly question because I don't have a farm field within 100 miles of my home or where I hunt but how is it any different hunting one of these elk then it is hunting a whitetail on the edge of a farm field full of alfalfa where the field or the alfalfa isn't natural. So where do we draw the line. Remeber now I'm just wondering because if I could hunt the edge of such a field I would be there in a heart beat. :lol:

[pockets]

very impreesive animal, but they just don't give me the thrill when they are behind a fence