Free: Contests & Raffles.
the last meeting i was at the dept. was tryin to get 12 cows to every herd bull. wich would be a good ratio. so in order to protect the future of the herd, a spike bull general seaon was implicated. fortunately for the herd bulls the general season many are protected from hunters as there isnt alot of special permits. the downside is that the tribal memebers will continue to harvest bulls whenever they want to an seems like wherever also. to me it doesnt make sense to harvest a mature bull in dec., jan. or feb. when they are at their leanest and struggling to survive. give me a nice fat calf thats eating. many neighboring states do and do not have the same theory to their management. smetims ya just have to play the cards delt
I thought the idea was to kill all the genetically deficient spike bulls, while letting the bigger bodied branch antlered bulls impregnate as many of the heard as possible, leading to more bigger bodied branch antler bulls in the future. Is this not correct?
When this rule came out our hunting camp almost gave up elk hunting. But it has greatly improved the herd in the area I hunt. Before the spike only rule we had a bunch of raghorns. Now we have some of the best elk hunting in the state. There is no way to please everyone. I don't mind shooting spikes, they really aren't that hard to find.And for those wishing we would go to a draw to hunt type deal, I am totally 100 percent against that crap. I want to hunt each and every year and have lots of money invested in equipment and such to go hunting. So if i could not hunt one year I would probably just give it up and sell all my hunting stuff. Our state is not the best but it really ain't that bad neither.