Flatbrimmer
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What A Year For Elk
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The Hedgehog
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@FoodIsMemories sorry for laughing about your brothers first cow elk. He looks truly happy - congratulations.
antlerradar
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It is sad what hunting's new normal has become in Montana.I guess if you don’t know what good hunting is, was, could be, then stick to the norris road for your hunting satisfaction.
DouglasR
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Good hunters will adapt, overcome and find the elk where the elk are.
If the elk are evolving, the hunters must follow suit.
Sorry you won’t be able to drink a bunch of beer while afield anymore for risk of getting a dui.
#stayinit
Those kind of "hunts" have been a feature of the Montana landscape for a long time. It's what passes for a "drive by shooting" in Montana. Quite a while ago I lived on a ranch in the Madison Valley and got to watch what passes for hunting by road hunters. I get wanting meat, but the amount of wounded and stressed elk got depressing to see. Not anything I'm interested in, but teach each his own I suppose.
BirdManMike
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The dopamine of the like button being clicked on one of your posts is a powerful drug.Shrap has about 20,000 posts on 24hourcampfire. Enjoy!
DouglasR
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Weren’t elk originally plains animals?
And then @Greenhorn ’s cowboy ass family drove them up into the mountains?
Very unnatural.
Why would you want to hunt elk in an unnatural setting?
Because it makes you feel good?
And then @Greenhorn ’s cowboy ass family drove them up into the mountains?
Very unnatural.
Why would you want to hunt elk in an unnatural setting?
Because it makes you feel good?
DouglasR
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Didn’t you shoot a buck from the truck 1 or 2 years ago?
BuzzH
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What a joke...more BS in that post than a stockyard.
It's no wonder elk hunting in Montana has become a drive by affair.
Would really like to discuss the history of elk habitat in Montana but have a buck whitetail to hunt in the mountains of NW Montana that were pushed out of their preferred habitat by cowboys.
It's so unnatural not hunting whitetails in their traditional habitat, you know corn, soybean, alfalfa fields or a planted food plot.
Guess I should just adapt to the new normal...where's that bag of comeerdeer?
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The Hedgehog
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There’s some thin skin about road hunting and dink shooting comments. Them’s fightin words..
Straight Arrow
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Colorado being a state seventy percent the size of Montana and including public land comprising only about seventy-five percent of that held by Montana, yet Colorado can sustain an elk population more than twice that of Montana … even before the proposed elk population reduction by shoulder seasons! Obviously Colorado elk “tolerance” is that much greater than that of Montana. Montana has potential to sustain more elk … not fewer!
Even though I recognize the ill-conceived mandate of FWP to meet elk population objectives, FWP needs to come up with creative plans to redistribute elk over the viable habitat in order to mitigate adverse impacts of “too many elk”, rather than continue a program to drastically extend hunting pressure and reduce elk herds across Montana to future levels which potentially could put them ‘back to the brink” … at least in certain areas and with respect to tourism and hunting opportunity.
Even though I recognize the ill-conceived mandate of FWP to meet elk population objectives, FWP needs to come up with creative plans to redistribute elk over the viable habitat in order to mitigate adverse impacts of “too many elk”, rather than continue a program to drastically extend hunting pressure and reduce elk herds across Montana to future levels which potentially could put them ‘back to the brink” … at least in certain areas and with respect to tourism and hunting opportunity.
DouglasR
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Somebody’s letting their Lakota mouth outrun their Custer ass.
Colorado has 24.5 million acres of wooded area. Montana has 14.6 million acres of wooded area. That's not to say our FWP manages our elk population well - it doesn't. It's just to point out the equivalency between Colorado and Montana far less than one might assume.
Gerald Martin
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Elk only live in the woods…? Is that why ranchers and ag producers complain about elk eating their grass and crops?
Elk habitat is elk habitat regardless of whether it’s wooded or not. Montana just happens to have enough elk habitat where crops are raised in proximity or cattle are grazed where elk live to ensure that social tolerance for elk limits their ability to increase populations to anywhere close to biological carrying capacity.
Straight Arrow
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Not a valid excuse.
Please claify: Are the Breaks considered part of the Montana "wooded area"?
Well, this thread has long outlived its usefulness. If this is what the tenor is like in hunting season, I can't imagine what it will be like in the off-season.
If you have an opinion that is counter to what someone else states in a thread about their hunt(s), start a different thread to discuss that topic. When folks post their hunting stories and pictures, let it be. When it comes to hunting stories, it's their thread, their story, don't derail it with your opinions; start a different thread if you feel something is a useful topic and we can have debates and opinions expressed on those threads. Hunting story threads need to stay as hunting stories.
If you have an opinion that is counter to what someone else states in a thread about their hunt(s), start a different thread to discuss that topic. When folks post their hunting stories and pictures, let it be. When it comes to hunting stories, it's their thread, their story, don't derail it with your opinions; start a different thread if you feel something is a useful topic and we can have debates and opinions expressed on those threads. Hunting story threads need to stay as hunting stories.
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just got back from a CO public land hunt and it turns out there were more shots fired on this thread than in the woods of a huge unit
Straight Arrow
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Congratulations on a fun and productive elk season family and friends affair.
PM me if you need to borrow my big-a$$ heavy duty Cabela's meat grinder!
