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>I agree with you Jake, it
>would be a lot better
>to have set tags for
>each unit instead of statewide.
>Some rough terrain units wont
>get hunted much and some
>are going to get hit
>very hard. I also agree
>that they should stop cow
>hunts on units that have
>poor bull to cow ratios
>but i believe that the
>reason they are still killing
>cows is because those units
>have a total elk population
>that is higher then objective.
>I also agree that it
>wouldn't hurt to allow a
>few more bull tags on
>certain units but to bring
>the bull to cow ratio
>into check it would take
>a ton of tags and
>quality would go out the
>window.
They've been killing off way to many cows on a number of these units for years, thats what got the B/C ratios out of wack, obviously the cows are not the problem any more. The fastest way to fix the B/C ratio is to stop shooting cows and start shooting bulls, Im not saying to wipe out all the bulls at once it will take a few years to do, but if they keep giveing out cow tags then it will take even longer. Its a constantly revolveing issue, what needs to be done now dose not need to be set in concreat for 20 years.
>Having a great archery tag at
>the same time as a
>spike hunt would be very
>frustrating and will educate elk
>but the muzzleloader hunters have
>to deal with deer hunters
>and the grouse hunt opens
>during the archery hunt as
>well. It sucks but it
>is something they have had
>to deal with on the
>spike units for years and
>as far as i can
>tell it hasn't lowered success
>rates. Plus if those things
>actually were to lower the
>success rate on the hunt
>then the division will be
>able to give more tags.
>Just a thought
Compairing Grouse hunting, and even the deer hunters is ridiculose, and here is why, deer and grouse are not elk, so the deer and grouse hunters are not chaseing the elk around on purpose, archery spike/cow hunters are chaseing the elk around. There is a huge differnce.
Also someone on one of the other threads about this said that the archery units with spike hunts on them now have a much lower sucsess rate than the units without. I think it was Prism but I am not positive.
Jake H. MM Member since 1999.