LAST EDITED ON Dec-16-08 AT 11:05PM (MST)[p]You can't legally break a point off but the way it's written it's OK if its broken so it just encourages guys to shoot the 400 inch bull, break off a point and have it fixed later.
Money is always part of "management" but I think this is just a way to kill more bulls without raising the number of LE tags and getting people excited.
UT DWR has found another way to kill more bulls by letting thousands of spike hunters hunt these primo units this year. That ought to make the guys who have waited 16 years for a tag happy...
All that said, Utah has a problem with maintaining quality and keeping herd numbers in check. They have given out huge numbers of cow tags to keep the total herd down. Of course that whacks our the bull/cow ratio so they need to kill more bulls. But we seem to like 350 plus bulls so we scream bloody murder when they propose raising tag numbers.
I think the best answer is to increase total herd numbers. That drives the cattlemen crazy. They want all the elk gone. I think they need to make it lucrative to the cattlemen to raise elk and less cattle. Some have figured out that they can sell a chance at a 400 inch bull for $10,000+. That's a lot of beef...
As always, there is no easy answers.
On the bull, I had him guessed in the 390s as a 6, 370ish as a 5. Awesome bull anyday anywhere.
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