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Big Game Hunting => Bow Hunting => Topic started by: shootermcgow on September 06, 2022, 11:43:37 AM

Title: Cattle grazing
Post by: shootermcgow on September 06, 2022, 11:43:37 AM: When are the cows out of the NF I normally hunt modern but have a multiseason this year so was out archery hunting kind of a nuisance when you are sitting In a blind and 4 cows come in and stay there for 6 hours and the deer no longer come in that day
Title: Re: Cattle grazing
Post by: grundy53 on September 06, 2022, 11:50:15 AM: I think the beginning of October

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Title: Re: Cattle grazing
Post by: GWP on September 06, 2022, 11:55:45 AM: Pet irritation of mine.
I have seen a number of wonderful places for either watching wildlife or hunting/fishing completely devastated by grazing on public lands.
Year around waterholes turned into feted brown sloppy swampy stinky yuk with flies all over.
Vegetation gone from the entire shoreline.
Makes it so no one will use it, which turns into "Hey, nobody uses it anyway".
A couple places they put up so much fence someone that did not know would think it is private. And that is the way they treat it.
Actually, they might treat it better if they owned it.
Title: Re: Cattle grazing
Post by: MountainWalk on September 06, 2022, 11:57:51 AM: Log it, graze it, or let it burn.
Title: Re: Cattle grazing
Post by: buckfvr on September 06, 2022, 12:08:18 PM: Quote from: shootermcgow on September 06, 2022, 11:43:37 AM
When are the cows out of the NF I normally hunt modern but have a multiseason this year so was out archery hunting kind of a nuisance when you are sitting In a blind and 4 cows come in and stay there for 6 hours and the deer no longer come in that day

Cattle will destroy your salt/bait sight if you are parked over one.
Title: Re: Cattle grazing
Post by: phildobaggins on September 06, 2022, 12:12:51 PM: Normally they get pulled out between Sept. 24 - Oct. 8. :tup:
Title: Re: Cattle grazing
Post by: PolarBear on September 06, 2022, 12:12:58 PM: We used to round them up around the end of September through early October in the Kettle Crest range. We tried to get them all out before rifle deer. Sometimes it didn’t work out the way we wanted an and a few took longer to find.
Title: Re: Cattle grazing
Post by: HooknoseHunter on September 06, 2022, 02:21:07 PM: Our property is just big enough that I have never felt the urge to fence it and we don’t have any neighbors as it’s surrounded by FS land. We did finally have to build a 3 strand fence about an acre big around our buildings because the guy down the valley has range cows and they would get under our pole building and crap and pee all over the concrete. I’m still very pro-range cows though. I help that gentleman do his butchering in exchange for beef.
Title: Re: Cattle grazing
Post by: baldopepper on September 06, 2022, 05:30:05 PM: If you think cattle are bad try hunting in sheep.country. Big herds in Utah left huge areas a devastated, dusty barren landscape. They ran the deer and elk out for the rest of the year. Terrible to head to your spot and find 3 -4000 sheep had just passed thru or,worse, we're still hanging around.
Title: Re: Cattle grazing
Post by: ganghis on September 06, 2022, 05:34:40 PM: Spot I used to hunt in Chewuch almost always had cattle during modern rifle deer season... prob depends on where you are.
Title: Re: Cattle grazing
Post by: bornhunter on September 06, 2022, 05:47:06 PM: Quote from: baldopepper on September 06, 2022, 05:30:05 PM
If you think cattle are bad try hunting in sheep.country. Big herds in Utah left huge areas a devastated, dusty barren landscape. They ran the deer and elk out for the rest of the year. Terrible to head to your spot and find 3 -4000 sheep had just passed thru or,worse, we're still hanging around.

:yeah:
Title: Re: Cattle grazing
Post by: boneaddict on September 10, 2022, 06:51:09 AM: THey usually try to get them out before the modern
Title: Re: Cattle grazing
Post by: boneaddict on September 10, 2022, 06:52:33 AM: Quote from: baldopepper on September 06, 2022, 05:30:05 PM
If you think cattle are bad try hunting in sheep.country. Big herds in Utah left huge areas a devastated, dusty barren landscape. They ran the deer and elk out for the rest of the year. Terrible to head to your spot and find 3 -4000 sheep had just passed thru or,worse, we're still hanging around.
:yeah: Agreed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cattle dont bother me, in fact usually I can capitalize on their presence. Sheep on the other hand.
Title: Re: Cattle grazing
Post by: PolarBear on September 10, 2022, 07:53:29 AM: Yeah, sheep are terrible on land. My neighbor decided to try sheep instead of chemicals to get rid of weeds. Within 2 weeks they turned his 5 acre trial pasture into dirt. It took me 2 years to bring that pasture back for grazing cattle. Ive seen places in Idaho where sheep have destroyed hundreds of acres. Cattle are much more environmentally friendly.