Got some scratch

[cebeu]

Must be a blackie, right? Couldn't be from a cat...could it? Some of those scratches are an inch deep easily (detail does not come across in these pics). Whatever it is, damn...

[Eek1]

http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r14/cunroe/Scratch4.jpg

http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r14/cunroe/Scratch3.jpg

http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r14/cunroe/Scratch2.jpg

http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r14/cunroe/Scratch1.jpg

[spyder]

So that's where my X went camping, ya, she's a mean bitch! [LOL]

[clublights]

So that's where my X went camping, ya, she's a mean bitch! [LOL]

[ROFL1] [ROFL2] [ROFL3]

[Mtn.man]

Elk eating the bark.

[mc223]

That tree has been marked a few times. Must be a real sweet one. Cool. Porcupines also do that up here in the northland.

[Mtn.man]

Seriously ya'll don't know that the elk eat the bark?
A bear leaves 4 claw marks.

[cebeu]

Seriously ya'll don't know that the elk eat the bark?
A bear leaves 4 claw marks.

Yeah, I do, and I have some of that around, looks nothing like this man...

This elk has some serious f****** teeth. [Dunno]


http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r14/cunroe/Scratch5.jpg

[Mtn.man]

Google it there are some great pictures.
I have seen elk naw almost totally through an aspen,
Bears leave 4 evenly spaced parrallel marks.

[cebeu]

Google it there are some great pictures.
I have seen elk naw almost totally through an aspen,
Bears leave 4 evenly spaced parrallel marks.

Wow...I like the answer but...I'm a gullible bitch, you better not be hangin' me out here man... [Tooth]

[Mtn.man]

http://forums.bowsite.com/tf/pics/00small73178646.JPG
Elk above

http://www.nrmsc.usgs.gov/files/norock/research/NDGBPbearclawbitecombo_s.jpg

[clublights]

I googled Elk aspen and found a few pics that look almost exactly the same LOL

crazy!

[argonstrom]

Sorry, man - I hope you don't own any goats:

[BPTactical]

Chuperacabra did it.........

[mcantar18c]

Couldn't be, chupacabra have 3 teeth, these don't look like sets of 3.

[BPTactical]

Couldn't be, chupacabra have 3 teeth, these don't look like sets of 3.

Cmon now-he chipped one in a fight with Sasquatch, hence the 4 tracks.
Don't you know nuthin?

[Beer]

[cebeu]

Screw you Chupacabra fanboi's, I'm ol' skool so I vote THIS if you wanna speculate...Jackalope man...a hard-core killer jackalope...

http://darbalina.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/wolpertinger.jpg

[sniper7]

you are all wrong.

it was manbearpig:
http://pictures.mastermarf.com/blog/2009/090623-manbearpig.jpg

[BPTactical]

Sniper7 wins-
I stand humbly before his wisdom...........................[Beer]

[Mtn.man]

Yes most probably I have seen them in the KS in Conifer. accompanied by a female.
Even SP has them

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/103669/awareness-of-manbearpig

[cebeu]

Mtn Man

I don't have any other Aspens where I've seen that kind of damage, pretty cool actually. Here's my reference point, I actually watched a young bull do this, gnawin' like a monster, but this pine has a different end result (as one would expect, totally different type of tree). This was last year but I snapped the shot minutes ago. Anyway, an elk calling card, just tossin' this out there...

http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r14/cunroe/scratch9.jpg

[Mtn.man]

http://www.fs.fed.us/r1-r4/spf/fhp/field_guide/images/fig54.jpg (http://www.fs.fed.us/r1-r4/spf/fhp/field_guide/largeimages/fig54-x.jpg)

Figure 54. Tooth marks from a porcupine are clearly visible in the margins of this sporulating rust canker.


http://www.longrangehunting.com/images-articles/elkrub.jpg
This bull was marking his territory in Rocky Mountain National Park this past September. I also watched him peel bark with his teeth. Photo and explanation by Lynn B.

[Mtn.man]

I have heard that the gland on a bulls face near his eyes that secretes a smell so when a bull marks a tree with his teeth he can leave the scent, as well as the ones at the antler bases when he is polishing the velvet off.