Joe's Natural Path To Profit

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I lived in Alaska, and those damn elk about killed me a few times when I was hiking. They don't like humans to much - at least the wild ones up in Anchorage & SE (Sitka, Juneau). :)

Close Calls: Gored By a Bull Elk
http://www.fieldandstream.com/articles/hunting/2009/06/close-calls-gored-bull-elk

Last fall, my and I drove to our daughter’s place in Hot Springs, S.D., to see a couple of bull elk that had their antlers locked together. By the time my wife and I arrived, one of the bulls was dead. My son-in-law, Brad, suggested we try to free the bull that was alive by sawing off one of the dead elk’s tines. After Brad and I discussed our plan, I slowly approached the elk and grabbed the rack of the live bull. As Brad came toward us with the saw, the elk lunged at me. My hand slipped off, and the antlers hit my face.

“You have a hell of a hole in your neck,” Brad said. “And it’s bleeding good, too!” It had happened so fast that I didn’t even feel it.

Elderly man fends off elk with trekking poles
Published: 18 Jun 07 12:51 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/7640/20070618/

A 78-year-old man succeeded at the weekend in warding off repeated attacks from an aggressive elk with the help of a set of trekking poles.

The man was out walking in a forest outside Karlstad in western Sweden when a cow elk suddenly showed up on the path and readied itself for a lunge.

"I went into a sumo wrestler stance with my legs bent and made up my mind to jab at the elk's eyes with the poles," he told newspaper Nya Wermlands Tidningen.

According to the man, the elk made a total of eight attempts to attack him.

"I actually stayed cool as a cucumber but I would have been terrified if I hadn't had my poles," he said.

As the man moved nearer to a more built-up area, the animal finally gave up and disappeared back into the forest.