Free: Contests & Raffles.
I've been keeping up with this post since Bear first posted it. To say the least I am always excited to see the results from anyone hunting with a Once In a Life time tag. I am not sure how some of the other on this site feel but the way you told the story of the hunt kinda made me sick. Not that you shot a Nanny.Streak just drew a OIL tag of all things. One of the most difficult to draw. Yeah you guys felt like you made a mistake shooting a nanny instead of a billy. It happens. No one is perfect.
I can understand that you felt the need to shoot a Billy over a Nanny. In all honesty when F&G issus the quota for these kinda hunts they are expecting Nanny's to be shot. If they felt that taking a Nanny here and their was going to affect the population they would issue Billy tags only.What I am trying to say is that I thought that you showed the Nanny you shot a little bit of disrespect. More so in the fact that I don't think the Nanny was small or you wouldn't have pulled the trigger. If you shot a nice goat than you shot a nice goat!I guess what set a little wrong with me is that fact that shooting 1 Nanny is not going to affect the population. That from what I gather from the story you just quartered her up and packed her out. No pictures, no nothing. Also that their are a lot of people out their that would have been just as excited to shoot a Nanny same as a Billy.
Not sure how you guys think it was disrespectful for what they had done. They harvested the animal. If they aren't proud of something then why would they photograph it and brag about it or share it. I am proud of them for sharing their story in the first place publicly. They could easily have ignored us. Shooting a Nanny is considered Taboo by many, though it happens and its an easy thing to do. Whether the fish and game manages the population that way or not, in a conservative way, we as hunters try not to do it. I can easily see why Streak feels bad about what happened, and I am hopeful he can salvage his memories of the hunt with Bear etc. Don't mean to be on opposite sides of the fence but think you might be being a little harsh. There are a lot of folks on here that need lectured. Not sure Bear and streak are one of them.