| Ripp |
| (.577 member) |
| 21/10/09 12:04 AM |
Re: .30-06 + Elk; Cow Carcass & Coyotes....
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I should add that though my son and I took elk this year, elk numbers taken are poor in our area. VERY poor. The fur buyers salt shack has a short pile that should be three times as large now, but isn't. The best elk hunters I know, a group of 4 fellows who take 4 bulls every year just returned from elk camp. ZERO. Not one elk taken. Small numbers of track seen, with wolf track in it. The post season numbers produced by the state will help tell the tale, but the future of elk hunting in thE ENTIRE state is bleak.
We need to take back our States, and that is going to start with killing wolves, worthless pelts or not.
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There are areas now in Montana that are draw only for license where only a few years back you could buy over the counter any bull tag you wanted..ironically, it is only the areas closest to the park where the buggers were first introduced...one of our wolf loving biologists tried to suggest it had very little to do with wolves and many other factors..I jumped him on it during a public meeting, stating the facts above along with the fact that all the cows and calves no longer winter in that canyon but have moved to the next valley as it is much more open and the snow fall is less than 1/4th of the other area..ie; easier to get away from the wolves..he had nothing further to say...imagine that....
Hunters have harvested 9 of the allotted 12 for this area..so they are going fast--big game opens this Sunday..feeling that will take care of the rest of them..any luck at all..