Gas on the fire Tag turn in?

[Danny_Ocean]

LAST EDITED ON Aug-16-18 AT 01:33PM (MST)[p]Scenario

You have 16 years of points towards an elk unit, your unit is currently on fire and there is a solid chance it will be still burning throughout the season. The DOW is giving the option to turn your tag back in to reinstate your points.

Negatives

Another year to wait to draw tag

Solid habitat is being burnt up resulting in added pressure to other areas throughout the unit (The unit got smaller)

Have a bear tag for the same unit


Positives

Turn elk tag in, hunt bears to learn the unit better

Burn area next year should hold elk. Hunters will be focused on it making other areas in the unit less crowded

Season next year ends a full week longer into September.


What say you?

 

[r270]

Brother in law in same boat only with sheep tag in S50 whole unit burnt !31 year wait !

 

[Ottersix]

>LAST EDITED ON Aug-16-18
>AT 01:33?PM (MST)
>
>Scenario
>
>You have 16 years of points
>towards an elk unit, your
>unit is currently on fire
>and there is a solid
>chance it will be still
>burning throughout the season. The
>DOW is giving the option
>to turn your tag back
>in to reinstate your points.
>
>
>Negatives
>
>Another year to wait to draw
>tag
>
>Solid habitat is being burnt up
>resulting in added pressure to
>other areas throughout the unit
>(The unit got smaller)
>
>Have a bear tag for the
>same unit
>
>
>Positives
>
>Turn elk tag in, hunt bears
>to learn the unit better
>
>
>Burn area next year should hold
>elk. Hunters will be focused
>on it making other areas
>in the unit less crowded
>
>
>Season next year ends a full
>week longer into September.
>
>
>What say you?

Hunt bear,boots on the ground. Time in the mountains. It's all good.

 

[BluffGruff]

LAST EDITED ON Aug-16-18 AT 06:36PM (MST)[p]For an elk tag, you're almost guaranteed to draw it next year, I would turn it in. Eat the bear tag this year.

R270 - Sheep tag is a totally different story, no guarantee for next year's draw. S50's trees burned, but now that the fire is out, just makes the sheep more visible, and I would hunt it. They didn't leave that mountain.

 

[cmbbulldog]

For the elk tag, I would try and turn it back in. Burn would be great next year to boot.

 

[LoneWati]

Have seen elk licking the burnt trees 3 days after a fire. Look at that monster bull killed this year in velvet with that Gov tag in another state. Notice the trees and the ground is even still black. Something to think about. Access is or can be a downfall but there will be elk in there.

 

[BOHNTR]

>Have seen elk licking the burnt
>trees 3 days after a
>fire. Look at that monster
>bull killed this year in
>velvet with that Gov tag
>in another state. Notice the
>trees and the ground is
>even still black. Something to
>think about. Access is or
>can be a downfall but
>there will be elk in
>there.


I believe you're referring to the huge velvet bull shot a few weeks back in Arizona.....it was shot in the old Wallow Fire. However, that fire burned seven years ago (2011). But I agree, critters will move right back into a burn areas rather quickly if there's new growth.

BOHNTR )))---------->

 

[Longshot349]

LAST EDITED ON Aug-21-18 AT 04:56PM (MST)[p]I guess you gotta choose your points or your money but cant get both even though it's a natural disaster.