This feeder was set up mainly for Mule Deer. Never thought the Elk would find it and I finally got around to pulling the SD card from it a couple days ago after the batteries were long dead in the cam. Most of the pictures are from January. Had over 2000 pictures of Elk and Javelina!
Nothing big Antler wise but still nice to look at

Man thats cool.


Can you imagine if we had elk in East Tx, how big they would get

Looks like a few have some nice character and should be excellent given some time.

So, how many elk are actually in Texas now? I keep hearing that the numbers have increased after Texas gave up on them as a game animal.

i wonder this too

ya'll would need a pretty dang powerful .22 to bring those down

and a good light and your in buisness lol

Really cool. I've got to do one of your free range Elk hunts some day.

you would almost need two spotlighters to get an elk

One of these days Mike I am gonna get out there to do an elk hunt with you!

Good lookin elk I can't wait to see some pics of what y'all knock down this fall

X2 i would be down for that.

what does that run?

X3

Awesome

Nice elk, seem to be more and more of them showing up out west these days.

My old college buddies have a place between valentine and ft davis, they say the elk are tearing up there feeders and have become a pain in the butt. Last year they say as many elk as they did wt and md.

Especially if those east tx elk had ar's.

Great photos......! I sure like the looks of that country.

I hunt off of 67 in between IH-10 and Alpine and we had about 4 hd of elk 6 yrs ago and had about 15-18 last year. They tear up fences and water troughs. We do not have any feeders but the neighbors put some up for about 3 months and the elk destroyed them. I do not care for them at all. They are tough on the habitat and eat a browse line to high for Mule Deer to reach. A buddy told me about a survey flown on a ranch next to the Longfellow on the east side and they saw about 60 hd in Jan-Feb this year on 30,000 acres. He talked to the Longfellow and they said they counted 800+ hd from the air on their counts. I have heard they are now north of IH-10 in Pecos County this summer.

Hmmm, sounds like the heard needs thinning. I volunteer my services gentlemen.

Im in for the volunteer group as well. I'll drive!

Looks like good hunting to me

Great pics, you are lucky folks!

Very cool.