Elk in random locations in Oklahoma?

[spooncg33]

Has anyone seen, or heard of Elk being somewhere they should not be? I talked to a buddy yesterday who said he saw a small bull Elk on his land in Norman. This guy isn't a story teller, so I have no doubt believing him. I just don't understand how/why an Elk would be this far up. If it was near Elgin or somewhere closer to Lawton it would make more sense.

Anyone ever seen or heard of an Elk around Norman or any other odd city?

 

[r00s7a]

Yeah. South or Norman, northeast of Cole there is a guy that has quite a few elk. If you go west from I-35 on Hwy 9 towards Newcastle/Blanchard 8 (ish) miles or so, then head south towards Cole on a dirt road. Forgot exactly who it is that owns them, but he has a big house up on the hill and surrounded by high fence. Has some beautiful bulls in there at times. Don't know if that as anywhere near where your buddy lives, but there are some around. They are scattered across the state by private landowners. I know there are some privately owned here around Antlers, and some over by Little City at Texoma.

 

[dennishoddy]

Small herd at Ponca that is privatly owned, as well as a herd at the Woolaroc museum in Osage county.

Interestingly enough, a wild elk was found and shot illegally in Osage county. There were no reports of any private herds missing any animals, in the vicinity, so nobody really knows how it got there. Some redneck shot it from a pickup window, and then took pics and bragged about it to his buddies. Word got out, and the ODW investigated it. He was found guilty and as part of his fine, had to pay restitution to the state. I don't know what a mature bull elk costs to buy, but he had to pay the money.

 

[264Magnum]

I've seen video from a deer hunter in the Panhandle of a decent 6x6 bull. They're like anything else, occasionally they get a wild hair and decide to hit the road.

 

[imhntn]

There is supposed to be a pretty good herd of them out in the panhandle on some crop land out there and there was a bear sow that raised a cub in a circle irrigation field of standing corn this summer.

 

[rebelracer79]

There are wild elk at camp gruber, SE of Muskogee

 

[sesh]

We had a cow and a calf running around our lease a few years ago. It borders a high fence ranch on one side and turned out they had a hole in the fence. Ranch manager came out and darted them and hauled them back.

 

[FAL guy]

A few years ago a young man and his father received a bit of jail time, some hefty fines and loss of hunting licenses for shooting an elk just NW of ALva. Stupidly, they put the remains of the carcus after butching in a local dumpster.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

Friend of mine saw a bull west of Enid last year standing in his wheatfield.

 

[dlbleak]

seems a game cam got a cow nw of enid a year or so ago