Boy, is my face red
Man goes elk hunting. Bags feral llama. In other news, there are feral llamas?
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January 16th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
YET.
AND, it’s happened before? Things that make you go hmmm.
January 16th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
There would have to be by now, wouldn’t there? People have been raising llamas for twenty years. Some get out. Where do you think those wild hogs come from?
January 16th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
A few years ago we had a couple of California hunters here in Utah who, when stopped at the checking station, had a dressed and tagged donkey. Hunters from that state are sort of a joke around here, because their high rate of shooting cows and horses. I also remember years ago a California hunter in Arizona who went pheasant hunting and bagged two road runners. Since it is the state bird, the game wardens were not amused.
January 16th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
We’ve got (or had- haven’t spotted them lately) a flock of feral emus north of Ft. Worth that have been around for several years. When the emu ‘market/pyramid scheme’ went off the wooden rails a few years ago, a few ’emu ranchers’ got tired of feeding them and when animal control started breathing down their necks, discovered that there could be holes in their fencing that appeared overnight.
MattG has hunted them; LawDog has some feral emu stories as well.
Myself, I never really considered emu to be ‘domesticated’ in order to return to a feral existence. To me, it’s just a big, nasty, ill-tempered velocichicken. Damned tasty, though.
On the other hand, what’s the appropriate wine for llama?
I sent the story link to a friend in Arkansas who sent me back a tale of a yankee hunter who shot and dressed out a mule, thinking it was the biggest doe mule deer in the Ozarks. He says he has photos that include the hunter and about half the town of Guion,AR. laughing at him.
Regards,
Rabbit.
January 16th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
The first four words tell the whole story; “A New York hunter…”
I guess of you’ve a; never seen an elk in your life, and b; never seen a llama in your life, you might (might) be able to make such a mistake. It goes to show; when you’re looking for “x” you tend to see “x” behind every bush. I don’t know…maybe they should have you identify your intended target animal out of a photo lineup before they sell you the tag.
Cooper’s rule four, I think it is;
“Know your target and what is beyond it”
January 17th, 2009 at 4:59 am
I could understand how you could mistake a deer for an elk, even a moose at long range. But a llama? It doesn’t look anything like an elk. I’ve never hunted in my life and even I know the difference. I see deer around East Tennessee all the time, and I saw plenty of elk and moose at Yellowstone several years ago. I’ve even seen 2 llama at at farm here in East Tennessee. There’s no way you could mistake them for an elk. They are quite distinctive (and territorial. The ones I saw acted like a couple of dogs, herding the other animals in a corral and showing them who was boss. The funniest part was when one of the llamas stood up on it’s hind legs and put it’s front paws on the fence and gave me the most intense stare-down, like a man checking someone out!).
January 17th, 2009 at 10:02 am
All I can hear is “He’s coming right for us!”
January 17th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
“He’s coming right for us!”
That’s what I was thinking too.