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Around The League - 2024-25 Regular Season

I was on Woody Island in 95 and came face to face with a bull during the spring.

I backed away very carefully and am happy that things went the way they did.
 
You really have to watch out for the bull moose during rut in fall, they are extremely aggressive. If outside of rut they can be docile. I have had them walk right up to me while fishing then turn around a leave. I was relieved it wasn't a bear. I have come close to be trampled by cow elk during spring calving season. Find them the scariest to run into. Thats life in the national parks of Canada for you.
 
Alan C said:
You really have to watch out for the bull moose during rut in fall, they are extremely aggressive. If outside of rut they can be docile. I have had them walk right up to me while fishing then turn around a leave. I was relieved it wasn't a bear. I have come close to be trampled by cow elk during spring calving season. Find them the scariest to run into. Thats life in the national parks of Canada for you.
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Right on. Yes, they often have no awareness you are even there if you aren't downwind of them and are surprised when they see you if you are fishing quietly. They try to figure out what you are, before moving on. They aren't too bright either, and will often run straight down the middle of the road when they see a car. You can't predict them, which makes them doubly dangerous when driving. You need to stop completely. Easy in the daytime, not so much at night. But I'm sure you know all that. I lived close to Terra Nova National Park in NL.

Yes Alan, I've heard males in rutting season can be aggressive. I generally avoided the woods in the fall-too many idiots with guns. So thankfully I never encountered an aggressive moose. Great talking about moose-its been awhile.
 
funniest thing about rutting season is how the male elks fight each other for the right to do the nasty, while they are fighting the females get all red in the genitals as they get excited watching the fights. Of course the winner gets the spoils but at the end, he is tired out so then the wolves chase him into the trees where his horns gets caught in the trees, fights off a wolf or two but gets tires and dies.

He fights, fucks and dies in the space of a few weeks. Talk about a shitty end.
 
TheCountofMonteCristo said:
funniest thing about rutting season is how the male elks fight each other for the right to do the nasty, while they are fighting the females get all red in the genitals as they get excited watching the fights. Of course the winner gets the spoils but at the end, he is tired out so then the wolves chase him into the trees where his horns gets caught in the trees, fights off a wolf or two but gets tires and dies.

He fights, fucks and dies in the space of a few weeks. Talk about a shitty end.
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The elk should have just accepted the inevitability of it all and just surrendered like a Quisling.
 
east coast said:
Right on. Yes, they often have no awareness you are even there if you aren't downwind of them and are surprised when they see you if you are fishing quietly. They try to figure out what you are, before moving on. They aren't too bright either, and will often run straight down the middle of the road when they see a car. You can't predict them, which makes them doubly dangerous when driving. You need to stop completely. Easy in the daytime, not so much at night. But I'm sure you know all that. I lived close to Terra Nova National Park in NL.

Yes Alan, I've heard males in rutting season can be aggressive. I generally avoided the woods in the fall-too many idiots with guns. So thankfully I never encountered an aggressive moose. Great talking about moose-its been awhile.
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Woods are much better in the winter. It's easier to haul lumber out when the ground is frozen and there's snow down.

That's my kind of fun.
 
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