Elk? Ack!

[seedcorn]

@Nyboy Yes. Hypocrisy of some labels. Here they keep large antlered deer, charge $10,000 to shoot it. It's in a 40+ acre pen. What a challenge......not.

As I understand it, they capture the wild hogs, fatten them up with grain, sell them. Ducks are considered game because we don't eat duck in USA-less than 1/2#/person. Bet rabbit less than that.

 

[Smart Red]

What a waste that would be! By all means SHOOT! Then hang, gut, skin, cut in quarters and take in house, process, package and freeze. Then back to SHOVEL (for the guts) and big time SHUTUP!

Of course that's what I meant when you said they were delicious.

 

[thistlebloom]

Just to be clear, the elk I eat is harvested legally, with proper hunting license and tags.
I would never advocate poaching, and I know nobody else here would either. We do like to joke around though.

 

[so lucky]

So the story I got today is that a local guy had about 35 to 50 elk on his farm, and the bank foreclosed on him, about 7 years ago. Rather than try to place the elk, they let them go. A few have been spotted here and there, some about 60 miles south of here, some have been shot.
And apparently there is one living in the woods near my house.
Since there is no elk in MO to hunt, I don't know how one would get a permit to hunt one.

 

[Pulsegleaner]

Not to High jack but if a animal is farm raised can it still be called wild ? Restaurant had wild boar on menu, when I questioned waiter, where it came from he said farm raised. Duck and rabbit where also labeled game.

That reminds me of something I imagined some years ago. From what I understand there are some places in the world (such as the Australian Highlands and Argentine Pampas*, but I think a few places in the US as well) where fully feral cattle may be found (descendants of escapees from ranches and settlers) and these are sometimes utilized for either capture (in Argentina) or hunting. I've always been rather interested in what such cattle taste like. To my mind it would seem to be the closest any modern person will ever get to tasting aurochs (true wild cow), which has been extinct since about 1600. In fact it's probably closer than things like Hect cattle (a breed designed in the 1930's under Nazi auspices in an effort to re-create the primal Aryan wild fauna) since most of them are kept in a semi domestic state (much like the pigs used for prosciutto, allowed to run wild but on very carefully regulated and cultivated "wilderness") This would also likely apply to any fruits of any future experiments in cloning aurochs from old remains; even if they could be done, and proved fecund enough that culling them for food would be permitted, they would undoubtedly be ranched and be little different from domestic cows.

* possibly a few of these could be even closer, if the are decended from the black bulls of the bullfighting ring (which supposedly have some extra aurochs DNA in them)

 

[Nyboy]

Thanks seed always learn some thing from you