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I had a lady tell me once, "Fishing is fair because the fish chooses to bite the hook. But hunting is not fair because the animal does not choose to be shot." Wha'??
Quote from: RadSav on March 23, 2015, 08:52:49 AMI had a lady tell me once, "Fishing is fair because the fish chooses to bite the hook. But hunting is not fair because the animal does not choose to be shot." Wha'??Nor do they choose to get ripped apart and eaten alive by wolves and cougars, or die a slow painful death by disease or starvation, or run over and left to die a ditch.
In other states like CO. their early rifle season is in early October when the rut is still going pretty good. I have hunted that season once with rifle years ago and it was great to have elk bugling. Most of the early season hunters there had not idea about calling so I don't think they had a huge advantage. What you see on TV is a lot of these folks hunting on private ranches during early October where the elk are really nuts because there is not pressure on them. Or, they are in the back country hunting during early October.Lots of folks think the elk are only rutting during September but it goes well into October when many states have rifle seasons.