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the draw on deer tags didn't take the deer population down. Desease and weather conditions that fell back to back did it.
and unfortunatly it takes time to rebound.
the elk heard is 5 times the number that are in the surounding states,
and in some areas getting way out of hand,
unfortunatily the only cure is mother nature, and she will wipe out large areas,
it will inturn be blamed on either the dow or the hunter,
when we all know its just a fualt of greed,
look what happened to the stock market,
it is controled by day traders.
colorado has more than one world record elk hiding off in someones ranch,
ranching fore wildlife is one of the worst ran programs i've see in years.
they get a tax break, yet they charge you a fee to tresspass.
I had a rancher tell me i couldn't go on public land because he was leasing it from the goverment to grase catle.
thats hog wash.
i also had a native, american get pissed off because i was on dow property and had a cow license. he said that thay had no right giving out licenses to kill his sacrate cows. what an moreon,
bring the bucks back down to 250 per head, and make it either-sex.
you can bet you will drop a large number of cows,
and your bulls will increase in heard no. the next year.
they can still maintain their 4 point or better req, for bulls.
I know I hunted public land last year and saw well over 300 elk in the week.
and in one day 20 + bulls.
Which most were in the 5 to 6 point and a couple sevens.
so you don't cry to me about no big ones out there.
I also had a rancher have his kid stand on his side of the fence, (his
13 year old son) and shout, piss, and scream to keep the elk from crossing.
and his kid had the gull to clime the fence and walk up to me and ask me how i was doing.
now this rancher also was fling a outfiters sign on the side of his truck.
I don't know where i'm going with this,
lower the tags, increase the no. of hunters.
and make it manditory that if your property boarders state land
you have to give access thru it, to it. where ever they (the hunter)seem to feel best to access.