Antlered vs. Bull??

[MeatMissile]

LAST EDITED ON Dec-17-10 AT 11:54AM (MST)[p]I am reviewing Colorado's elk success statistics and I came across something weird.

What is the difference between antlered harvest and bulls harvested? for 1 unit it says 0 antlered harvest for first rifle season. On another sheet it, says 88 bulls for the first season!?

I'm sure that I am missing something, but I can figure out what...Any thoughts?



I just thought of something....If they only sell either sex tags for this unit during 1st rifle. Maybe the antlered harvest does not include that because they were not antlered hunters, but either sex hunters.?

 

[mulieslayer52]

the tags in colorado are antlered or antlerless tags.

antlered includes well...all bulls that have antlerless

antlerless inludes cows and bull calves that have not antlers

 

[MeatMissile]

LAST EDITED ON Dec-20-10 AT 11:34AM (MST)[p]That doesn't answer my question though. How can antlered tags have zero harvest for a unit, and bull numbers for that same unit have harvest numbers harvest? Aren't they the same thing?

 

[jt00082]

It is rare, but some cow elk can have antlers..

 

[MeatMissile]

That's a good idea, but I don't think there would be 88 cows with antlers taken and zero bulls in one unit.