Farm bulls

[actionshooter]

Cull bulls were butchered and sent to market (places that sell "wild game" like cabelas maybe).

When I saw Cabelas cafe, I thought the game was probably from a ranch. I won't eat there and support game ranching. Transplanting is interesting I've never thought of that. IMO that might be the only good reason for it.

[huntnphool]

I have taken pics of this bull for the last 4 years now, in a pen on a ranch. One thing I noticed about all the bulls on the ranch was their racks stay light colored, they dont have the trees to rub against and color them, only fence posts. If you look close or blow up the pic you can see a yellow tag in his left ear.

[Ridgerunner]

I just walk by those booths and don't even chat or look at the pics, yeah they grow some pigs but just as I have no interest in shooting a cow I have no interest in shooting an elk behind a high fence.

[bucklucky]

No bull is better than a 500 inch farm bull anyday! At least I feal like I hunted for an elk and not the color of the ear tag!

[jackelope]

i work with an old guy who has done a hunt in idaho on a ranch the last 2 years. the guy who owns the ranch was at the show. his reasoning is they like the meat, they are of the age that they are physically not able to do a public land hunt and pack out an animal on their own and this trip every year allows them to harvest an elk which they have never been able to do in the past. they(husband and wife) have a great time every year and get lots of good meat.
i'm not saying i agree with this type of hunt at all...don't get me wrong...but the folks that do these hunts are still hunters and we should not argue and fight among fellow hunters.

[mossback91]

wow that fence is pretty weak. Cattle would havea hay day breaking through that why dont the elk break through it? wild elk always tear down fences and are real rough on everything what gives. maybe its just me but that fence looks weak

[Ray]

I think that if someone wants to kill an elk in an enclosure it is just fine. It should not be outlawed and I don't believe that it would stop me from eating that elk either. As of today... I have no desire to hunt animals inside enclosures.

[mossback91]

Hell yeah Id kill it and eat it. I wouldnt be proud of the kill or the so called "HUNT" but Id eat the *censored* out of it. I also wouldnt pay for it either.

[ShirtGuy77]

I just received an email from a very good friend of mine yesterday, the subject was "Buffalo".  I figured it was that picture of the moose trying to hammer the buffalo statue.  It wasn't.

My buddy just moved back to our old home town with his wife to work on her family's ranch.  Very large family with Alot of property.  The pictures he sent were of a penned up buffalo that they had just purchased so they could sell the hunt on their property.  This buffalo was in a little pen on the property and the pictures looked like it was a petting zoo.

To each his own I guess, but the money side of hunting, and seeing how it is becoming huge is what bothers me.  I am not talking about the expenses we all endure preparing for a hunt, or the hunt itself.  It's the spending massive amounts of cash to kill an animal that can't escape.  Then posing for photos over the kill when your clothes still smell of laundry detergent, you have deodorant on, and not one blister on your feet.  I would sell my guns and give it up before being taken by the hand to an animal. 

Just my personal opinion.

[hogsniper]

I am kinda split on the idea.. I would rather have them killing an elk to fill their desire than to spend all that money and lock up land that we all like to hunt. It is hard, I hate the idea of it but things could be worse. Every year the prices are going up. When is it gonna stop...

[actionshooter]

One of this biggest problems I have is all of the articles I have read where the farmed elk can pick up disease and spread it to wild heards. The rancher makes a profit and we could loose wind animals.