Where's the beef?

[Ghost Hunter]

Where it lays.  Too bad they don't allow a special hunt.  Been there for years, what's a few more weeks.  They should do these hunts where feral horses and burros are destroying habitat.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/150-feral-cattle-to-be-shot-from-sky-in-new-mexico-national-forest-as-us-forest-service-issues-kill-order/ar-AA17IEQJ?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=8d67d66b15f34b6a8b552857432172a7

[nwwanderer]

By feds own numbers 50 or 60k feral equines need to disappear and they run a program to whack 150 bovines.  Kind of like trimming your toe nails because you have stage 4 cancer

[GASoline71]

The AR's got that ball rolling... Feral horses are too much like my little ponies, so they can't fathom having them shot.  But animals that provide a meat food source... sure, kill those.   

Gary

[Platensek-po]

They could have sold tags and made money and people
Could have gotten meat from it. Instead spending lots of money and I assume the meat will go to waste. What a shame

[Alchase]

Hunting wild LongHorn cattle in heavy brush would be crazy! 

We have wild Longhorn here in Oklahoma, They are not something to take lightly. They can be very aggressive.
So I’ll would be a kick in the pants to try.

Quoting Pea Eye Parker, Lonesome Dove, “Them bulls 'll hook you.” 

[Platensek-po]

Hunting wild LongHorn cattle in heavy brush would be crazy! 

We have wild Longhorn here in Oklahoma, They are not something to take lightly. They can be very aggressive.
So I’ll would be a kick in the pants to try.

Quoting Pea Eye Parker, Lonesome Dove, “Them bulls 'll hook you.” 

Is there something against it? If it’s feral and on public land does Ok have some law protecting it?

[Ghost Hunter]

Nobody is taking time to read it.

[Alchase]

Hunting wild LongHorn cattle in heavy brush would be crazy! 

We have wild Longhorn here in Oklahoma, They are not something to take lightly. They can be very aggressive.
So I’ll would be a kick in the pants to try.

Quoting Pea Eye Parker, Lonesome Dove, “Them bulls 'll hook you.” 

Is there something against it? If it’s feral and on public land does Ok have some law protecting it?

In Oklahoma they are mostly on wildlife refuges, so no hunting allowed.
That I know of.   

We have seen the attack a couple cars in the Wichita Wild Life Refuge in SW Ok.

If you could hunt them you would get a serious amount of beef. They are huge. 

[Platensek-po]

Hunting wild LongHorn cattle in heavy brush would be crazy! 

We have wild Longhorn here in Oklahoma, They are not something to take lightly. They can be very aggressive.
So I’ll would be a kick in the pants to try.

Quoting Pea Eye Parker, Lonesome Dove, “Them bulls 'll hook you.” 

Is there something against it? If it’s feral and on public land does Ok have some law protecting it?

In Oklahoma they are mostly on wildlife refuges, so no hunting allowed.
That I know of.   

We have seen the attack a couple cars in the Wichita Wild Life Refuge in SW Ok.

If you could hunt them you would get a serious amount of beef. They are huge. 

Dang that would be awesome. Apparently these ones are on national forest. Not sure why they don’t sell tags for them

[chukarchaser]

Whats the difference between a feral cow and wild horse, turns out its sentiment.  I also question whether the bull in the photo is feral.  Looks pretty good to me

[Dan-o]

The bull in the pics looks healthy. 

The article says they'll leave them where they fall. 
Those will be some spoiled coyotes for a little while.   

It does seem a shame they can't sell tags.

[KFhunter]

I’d eat that

[Dan-o]

I’d eat that

Ultimate free range beef.

[Ghost Hunter]

Hunting wild LongHorn cattle in heavy brush would be crazy! 

We have wild Longhorn here in Oklahoma, They are not something to take lightly. They can be very aggressive.
So I’ll would be a kick in the pants to try.

Quoting Pea Eye Parker, Lonesome Dove, “Them bulls 'll hook you.” 

Is there something against it? If it’s feral and on public land does Ok have some law protecting it?

In Oklahoma they are mostly on wildlife refuges, so no hunting allowed.
That I know of.   

We have seen the attack a couple cars in the Wichita Wild Life Refuge in SW Ok.

If you could hunt them you would get a serious amount of beef. They are huge. 

Dang that would be awesome. Apparently these ones are on national forest. Not sure why they don’t sell tags for them

Probably has to be a game animal for a tag.  God forbid they allow someone to take a feral beef.  Me and my dog would be eating good.

[7mmfan]

If they plan on just leaving them where they fall, my guess is that a few guys will conveniently find themselves in the area and go take advantage of the slaughter after the fact. I would.

[KFhunter]

I would think that it would be unannounced, or those people would be in harms way, and the shoot then canceled

[nwwanderer]

Been to the Gila?  Mighty rough, 150 head is a speck.  Bring a match and a fork

[hunter399]

You guys stop talking about tags.
There probably not classified as wildlife.
Head down there and get some.

But yes they could of set something up with a food Bank or something and keep the waste down.

Or put an ad online/paper to try and get a local to round them up and auction/slaughter/or keep.

[hunter399]

Yup....yup..
Seen the artical now.
Center for biological diversity.......
Seeing the light now,it's getting brighter,it's burning.

[PolarBear]

Here’s my take as a cattle breeder. Those critters have been feral, grass fed so long that they have basically developed their own unique genetics. That bull has been making a living on scrub and still fleshes out like good commercial herd bull. Why not auction the herd off to some investors to introduce a new strain of true grass raised beef?  A little research into these animals might lead to better carcass traits with much less feed or head per acre that can be passed on to established commercial herds. Just a thought. 

[Boss .300 winmag]

Here’s my take as a cattle breeder. Those critters have been feral, grass fed so long that they have basically developed their own unique genetics. That bull has been making a living on scrub and still fleshes out like good commercial herd bull. Why not auction the herd off to some investors to introduce a new strain of true grass raised beef?  A little research into these animals might lead to better carcass traits with much less feed or head per acre that can be passed on to established commercial herds. Just a thought. 

That would be interesting to do. But tofu eating tree huggers in the forest circus don’t care about that.

[JimmyHoffa]

Have to show them the White Oak Pastures study that shows organic , free range, grass fed cattle are actually a carbon sink.

[bearpaw]

I don't know how wild these cattle in AZ are, but they are potentially quite elusive if they have evolved anything like the wild cattle (scrub bulls) in Australia?