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Do bulls separate after they shed?
HntnFsh:
--- Quote from: Rainier10 on March 26, 2024, 05:23:16 PM ---Saturday I had six bulls walking around together, 4 shed 2 still packing. Sunday morning same six elk walked away together, one still packing a now five that had shed.
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How many sheds did you find?
Rainier10:
--- Quote from: HntnFsh on March 26, 2024, 07:43:21 PM ---
--- Quote from: Rainier10 on March 26, 2024, 05:23:16 PM ---Saturday I had six bulls walking around together, 4 shed 2 still packing. Sunday morning same six elk walked away together, one still packing a now five that had shed.
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How many sheds did you find?
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Zero. Gonna look again this weekend
STIKNSTRINGBOW:
Now, I am not an expert..
Yet I see elk on fairly regular times throughout the year.
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Western Washington and the herd usually is always together.
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I don't see bachelor groups, I see mixed..
Period.
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Honestly, even the "nice" bulls are always with the main group.
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My personal best is 242", and I really don't care about antlers.
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But the herds I see live together all year.
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Western Washington, find a herd?
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It's a mix.
Honestly, they live with mom like my own kids.
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Only time it matters is during hunting season.
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And the average bull is 2-3 years old?
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I wish we had the opportunity for 5-6 year old bulls.
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But.,
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Unless we go back to a management perspective of pushing carrying capacity, and harvest objective.
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Don't kill the baby makers, don't regulate the harvest objective, regulate the opportunity.
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3pr or better state wide.
No antlerless.
. until the actual math adds up.
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In the 1980's there were 14,000+ elk in a herd that is now 9000, and struggling?
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I actually feel sorry for you guys that missed the end of days.
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Or, before the commission.
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If they just put the guys in charge of our planter trout ...
They don't care about our resources, they just care about their paychecks.
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Buckhunter24:
Thats interesting, is that in far sw Washington? Typically the only bulls I see with cows this time of year are the little spikes, and the branched bulls are grouped up.
HntnFsh:
--- Quote from: Buckhunter24 on March 27, 2024, 04:35:56 AM ---Thats interesting, is that in far sw Washington? Typically the only bulls I see with cows this time of year are the little spikes, and the branched bulls are grouped up.
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Same here!
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