Viral Two Trees Stop 40 mph Bull Elk Instantly

Heart shot farther up the hill before he hit the trees doing full speed ahead!
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[Olhickory]

I mean I don’t see the trees moving either. For all we know, 2 trees were moving 40mph and the dead elk stopped them dead.

[MegaBubble]

"Based on the depth of these hoofprints and the fractures in the antlers, this Elk was going 40 miles per hour."
- *this guy, apparently*

[jacobdaniel]

What's crazy is the fact that the weight of that animal and the speed at which it was travelling still wasn't enough to break those horns.

[bencooper]

I'm calling BS on this clip, some of the wild trees in that area have been known to hunt in pairs and can sprint at speeds upwards of 20 miles an hour in short bursts. As long as you have your leaf trimmers and some tree spray you can usually thwart an ambush. they tend not to hunt humans anyway

[em-]

Would love to see the conversation between peta and the tree huggers about who's at fault.

[Sneakystealz]

That's a clean kill right there. Props to the trees for ambushing this elk

[twobeards]

Over 50 years ago I went to hunt camp in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
I'd never hunted and had only fired a rifle once in my life. I was there as camp cook. On the third day one of my fellow hunters returned late in the morning. I had purchased a license but didn't expect to hunt.
Tommy offered to let me use his iron sight .303 and I took him up on it.
At this point none of the five hunters had even seen a deer. Everyone was back in and I headed out of the cabin. I didn't get 50 feet from the door when a good sized spikehorn stepped out of the swamp about 60 yards away and started walking camly toward me. I was really pumped up and fumbled with the safety and tried to shoulder the weapon. The buck kept walking toward me and at about 30 yards I aimed for the chest and fired. He came down at me running full tilt.
He was about 10 yards away when he took a hard left into the swamp a couple of seconds later there was a huge crash, then nothing.
The cabin emptied and the guys wanted to know what I was shooting for so close to camp. I explained and a short search ensued.
We found the spike with little difficulty and upon further inspection could not find an entry or exit wound. He cooked up just fine.
Tommy said I was so ugly that I scared him to death. When field dressing him it became apparent that his neck was broken, probably the crash I heard.
I got my first deer but didn't really qualify as a successful hunter.

[Sunshine]

Even on video, doesn't capture how massive that elk and his horns are compared to being in its presence. Truly massive powerful animals❤

[rondellcharles]

The spirit of the elk looking at himself like damn how the f I missed that turn

[dcmontage]

If anyone bothered to read the description they'd know the elk died by being shot in the heart, a little while earlier and as it was running away it crashed into the trees and died.

[chrisdooley]

The amount of force and kinetic energy to snap that elk’s neck is just phenomenal. It had to have gotten spooked in the dark and was trying to dart between the trees and crunch it was over quick. Shame it wasn’t found right away that’s a huge amount of food that could feed hungry people

[MillMMI]

This looks like something you’d find in Skyrim.

[brodriguez]

Little did the audience know, the elk had ate sour elderberries earlier that morning, and as far as he was concerned he perfectly dodge the other 7 trees that he saw while mervin back home

[luich]

Probably was on the cell and didn’t see the trees, distracted elk totally his fault

[Thundershield]

A more accurate title:
“Hunters find dead Elk with head stuck between two trees”

[rob]

Plot twist: he’s asleep. his dr. Recommend sleeping in a elevated position for acid reflux.

[bingewatchingintesifies]

The skeleton that would leave would be so fucking metal.

[TopoPilot]

"Take a look to the sky just before you die, it's the last time you will"! Metallica.

[qualityshloimy]

What a majestic creature, even in death... Also, damn, what a way to go, "my absolute brolic horns got me in the end, was in middle of threading the needle and I was just simply too much of A FUCKING BEAST that it ended up killing me"

[antcow]

You cant fool me, canadian trees are infamous for moving at 40 MPH when they race for a mate!
The elk was just in the way.