Concrete Washington Elk Shoot...

[Gorilla]

After one day in to the hunt, Washington Fish and Game canceled a late season archery Elk hunt that was too hot for the yuppies to handle. It is to bad the Fish and Game folded to the pressure. I don't see this as unethical. This was a designed meat hunt to help the ranchers and city officials limit the damage. Most yuppies have no idea how much damage a herd like this does and what it takes to put that packaged steak in the grocery store.

The message boards and news outlets are sobbing with love stories.

It reminds me of that famous line in the movie "A Few Good Men"...You can't handle the Truth!

http://www.nwcn.com/news/washington/Bow-hunters-shoot-elk-in-Wash-pasture-80308087.html

 

[Khunter]

Yeah right. They did the right thing shutting it down if the guys with tags think it is ethical to line up and start shooting into a herd that seemed confused or something but were certainly acting like they thought they were hemmed in. Normal unharried elk would have blazed out of there long before a bunch of guys could have closed in to bow range in the open. If it does not look like hunting, it probably isn't?

All bowhunters and hunters in general have responsibility to be sensible about protecting the image and reputation of the sport. If that means not making a legal shot in some situations, so be it. Take one for the team. To do otherwise is to beg for loss of hunting privilege over time. Nonhunters own the vote every time a hunting issues comes up so it is INTELLIGENT to realize that how you are perceived does matter, and to act accordingly, even if what you are doing is legal.

Maybe those guys started out with good intentions but they gave hunting a big black eye, and thus ultimately hey screwed up.

 

[scottr]

K...I totally agree with you. Some of the other stories on this "hunt" were very disturbing...basically shooting arrows into a herd hoping for something to fall...and if nothing falls shoot again (not at the same animal)

What they did might not be illegal but it sure was unethical and gives all hunters a black eye.

 

[uncletick]

Nothing ethical about hunting fenced elk. Pretty poor choice to hunt with the animals trapped, people stopping and taking pictures.. Stupid decision by the "hunters"

 

[treedagain]

from the looks of the video the elk were not "penned" in.....I could not see anything that would keep them from getting away..still it was a sick scene..

 

[Gorilla]

Certainty shooting blindly into a herd is unethical and if these hunters are guilty of that, they should be put to shame.

Everyone likes a one shot clean and painless kill but the truth of hunting is that more times than not, a 2 or 3 shot is needed to finish the job and sometimes animals suffer.

The yuppies through a fit and cry a river when elk are killed by hunters but it is the beauty of nature when a wolf disembowels an elk alive and begins eating it before it dies. The yuppies fail to acknowledge that humans are just as much a part of the cycle of life, as any other speices on earth.

This hunt was not designed as a "sport" hunt. It was a management hunt. The stated objective was to put pressure on the elk to keep them out of the fields and provide hunters with meat. That is exactly what happened, so I don't know why the F&G would shut it down. The idea is that these elk will associate going in to farmers fields with the stress of being chased around so they will stay away.

I see very little difference between this and hunting on a high fenced ranch.

 

[TheHunt]

The entire thing was scewed up. The Fish and Game department allowed people to park their automobiles (Gawkers). There were only a few exits for the elk. They were all balledup.

Sure there were slob hunters launching arrows but if the Fish and Game officers would have called Washington State Patrol to hand out tickets to get the cars/trucks to the elk could move across the road.

This cluster was a screw up from the hunters and fish and game perspective. I am very sure this will never happen again. This specific hunt will never happen again.