Here's long read on the many factors effecting mule deer populations, including cheatgrass and grazing.
https://mountainlion.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/NV-A-NDOW-Wasley-2004-Mule-Deer-Population-Dynamics-Issues-and-Influences.pdf
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There's no difference. If your gonna kill an animal do it quickly and cleanly. I'm not a fan of trapping either. It's a pretty small man that has to show how big his dick is by making an animal suffer.
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Building a deck for a customer I found this in one of the 2”X12”’s. Some little pisscutter doesn’t know how lucky he was. I imagine there’s a lot of these in Utah’s forests.
Remember the line " All hunting should be privatized and sold to the highest bidder". You have to be a special kind of stupid to support an organization that wants to eliminate the average working class hunter. Kinda like voting for Biden
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I went the first year it was held. Found out about who was runnin it and haven't been back. Not gonna support an organization that wants to eliminate the average hunter.
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Either one will work. There's so much hype about the 6.5. With their reputation all you have to do is climb to the top of the mountain and hold either cartridge above your head and shout 6.5 and everything within earshot will drop dead from fright. Then you can just take your pick
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Forget the complaints about the dedicated hunters and the lifetime license holders and all the other excuses. These are just smoke and mirrors to distract from the real agenda. Remember the statement "All hunting should be privatized and sold to the highest bidder" ? The most relevant comment I...
Hunting "accidents" where someone is killed should be prosecuted as manslaughter or negligent homicide at a minimum and loss of hunting privileges. Targets should first be identified as the correct species AND as something you want to kill before knocking an arrow or chambering a round. Theres...
The true number of deer killed in Utah will never be known but with the legal & illegal harvest and predation by lions, bears, coyotes, bobcats, eagles and whatever other predator thats out there, combined with road kill and human encroachment our deer herds are in serious trouble.
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Buzz said:
BTW, lions kill more along the lines of a deer/elk a week...study up
Right, you systematically ignore poaching which is a bigger problem than predators.
The DWR estimates the Utah mountain lion population at 2300 animals. So if each lion kills a deer or elk a week that equates to...
23000 poached deer each year in Utah equals 63 deer per day. Last year Utah sold 73075 general season deer tags. If the state wide success rate is say around 40% then 29230 deer were killed legally.
Craig Miya, assistant chief of law enforcement for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, says...
Brake cleaner or parts cleaner are instant death to the little bastards. I keep a few cans around just for them. Works better then any wasp spray or WD40. One shot and they're dead before they hit the ground. Can even shoot em out of the air.
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I think we should just ban hunting for the general public all together and sell all the tags at auction to the wealthy because they don't b***h about everything
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Just saw the tag numbers for the unit I hunt. Have to go back and pull it up to get the exact numbers but the Population estimate is a little over 6000 deer with the buck to doe ratio yielding a little more then 1900 bucks. They issued 2500 tags. Seems like a good idea to issue more tags then...
What a disgusting video. What a display of great hunting skills, being guided in by radio then taking a poor shot hitting the deer in the ass just to get an arrow in him. I'd be embarrassed to post a video like that. Sad state that hunting has deteriorated to.
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