Getting bummed about my Quality Bull hunt

[huntnphool]

If you don't understand the science behind prescribed burns,, maybe it would be best to keep the speculation to yourself.   

Who are you addressing this to?

My good buddy huntnphool. 

And yes, of course prescribed burns can be done in the spring. But they can also be done in the fall. Or anytime really, as long as conditions are right.

  How much science does it take to come up with "anytime really, as long as conditions are right"?

My good buddy huntnphool.

You have to admit Bob, thats pretty funny.

[bigmv]

Think about it this way, when is it easiest to find branch antlered bulls, during the rut. The same is true for the WDFW, it is easiest for them to find them during the rut. One of the reasons that they are doing the study on branch antlered bulls in the Colockum is because of a very vocal group of local sportsmen who say that there are a lot more branch antlered bulls than get counted in the annual counts that the WDFW does. So this study they are starting is partly to try to find out if that is true. If there are a large amount of bulls that are not being counted then maybe more bull tags could be issued. As far as worrying about taking a collared bull in GMU 251, I doubt that will be a problem, but the solution is easy, just don't shoot a bull with a collar.

I thought of that too, I asked what color the collars are, answer " Tan". Same color as their coat.

[boneaddict]

Just stick the collar on the front of their vehicle.   They'll spend all winter chasing it.

[PlateauNDN]

   hahahaha.......I'd like to harvest some animal with a collar but not if its tainted meat just to tey amd pull some type of prank.

[snowpack]

  hahahaha.......I'd like to harvest some animal with a collar but not if its tainted meat just to tey amd pull some type of prank.

I heard a while back about the guys in Idaho shooting wolves with collars and they'd toss the collars on the grain barges heading down the Snake/Columbia.  Supposedly the bios were looking for wolves down near Portland.

[winshooter88]

The collars are tan, but they are pretty visible, if you can see to make a reasonable shot, you should be able to see the collar.

[Elkrunner]

Prescribed burns can be performed in the spring.

I would think it would be harder to schedule..they cannot predict when the melt off would be done as well as what each road is going to look like for access.   

[dreamingbig]

What I want to know is why do they feel the need to collar them?  Have they said the reason?

[winshooter88]

It's for a study that the WDFW is doing on bulls to go along with the study they are just finishing up  on cows in the Colockum/Nanuem.

[dreamingbig]

Can't we save them money and cut to the chase?  Too many roads which leads to an over harvest by native Americans. 

[PlateauNDN]

   I can deal with less roads.

[stewcamp]

I agree less roads would help a lot.

[chukarchaser]

This is the quality bull tag for this area for muzzle loaders and I think this is total BS. There is as high a risk for the elk to move into 251 as going anywhere else.  I cannot believe that this is the best plan that WDFW can come up with. 

[JLS]

Typical WDFW!! My question to add to this is..If this drug stays in their system for 30 days and makes the meat non-consumable, how does it effect any potential calves that bull fathers? I'm sure WDFW says it has NO effect to a fetus.

Well, if the meat is safe for consumption after 30 days, wouldn't you think that by the time the bull's sperm got to an ovulated egg, fertilized it, and the calf was born that the drug would have gone through quite a few half lives?