So I was looking at the guide book and noticed a change to the first rifle in unit 21 so I called the DWR for clarification. The either sex tag has been changed to a "Private Land Only". The public land hunters now have to choose between either bull or cow.
That puzzles me because I've talked to the DWR officer out there the past 3 years in a row and he said that they would prefer that all the elk were gone off that area. They want it to be a deer area not an elk area and if they could they would take all the elk off.
So the change doesn't make sense. For us, we hunt it for a bull the first few days and then if we haven't seen a bull we take a cow... seems like the ideal way if you want to take as many elk off as possible.
Of course, as a friend pointed out, maybe they are hoping that people will put in first choice for bull and second for cow and that they will limit the bull tags down so that a majority of people end up with cow tags.
I don't know, just seems like a strange change to me.
sled_guy
That puzzles me because I've talked to the DWR officer out there the past 3 years in a row and he said that they would prefer that all the elk were gone off that area. They want it to be a deer area not an elk area and if they could they would take all the elk off.
So the change doesn't make sense. For us, we hunt it for a bull the first few days and then if we haven't seen a bull we take a cow... seems like the ideal way if you want to take as many elk off as possible.
Of course, as a friend pointed out, maybe they are hoping that people will put in first choice for bull and second for cow and that they will limit the bull tags down so that a majority of people end up with cow tags.
I don't know, just seems like a strange change to me.
sled_guy
