Your Personal Wounding Rate- Archery Elk

[hank4elk]

Never hunted elk with a bow.
Shot a nice 4x4 buck in MT in 1978. Baer recurve. 20 yards,broadside.
Sunset in a snow storm. Lost blood & tracks after 100 yards. Soaked,I came back in morning and found it 20 yards further. Lost half the meat and was so mad at myself I quit big game bow hunting.
My Pearson straight bow and the Baer were stolen off the passenger seat on my last move trip to NM in Barstow. I should have locked it when I hit the head.
Never lost a rifle hit big game animal. Eaten a few tags tho. Always lock my truck now.
Life lessons.

 

[BackofBeyond]

I think I know...

This one’s some bullshit.

 

[Borny1]

Does FWP put in an allowance for game not found when determining tag numbers? It definitely happens, so I wonder if they compensate for it.

 

[Archer86]

Looks like a bunch rifle hunters finding things to complain about before the season opens...... new stage of the off season.

season ends everyone is anxious for the draws. Then it moves to western state residents are greedy with the tags when they dont draw or resident are mad they give out to many nr tags and thats why they didnt draw. Then alittle excitement from those who drew tags and now rifle hunters complain about archers some how someone has to start a thread about rifle hunters when archery is over and the circle will be almost complete......

 

[ismith]

I agree. There would at least be a lot less losers posting about wounding an animal on social media, which would be better for the hobby.

Also, force people to put some sort of identification on their arrows. At least if a carcass was found with an arrow in it they would know who shot it, and if they knew the guy shot another elk (probably posted it on social media), they’d have some enforcement. Wouldn’t always work but might make guys think about questionable shots.

I could definitely see requiring bowhunters to have their ALS numbers on their arrows as reasonable. If a dead critter is found with an arrow stuck in it like this doe and the ALS holder filled that tag on something else a fine might be in order, or a year without hunting.

 

[cgasner1]

Looks like a bunch rifle hunters finding things to complain about before the season opens...... new stage of the off season.

season ends everyone is anxious for the draws. Then it moves to western state residents are greedy with the tags when they dont draw or resident are mad they give out to many nr tags and thats why they didnt draw. Then alittle excitement from those who drew tags and now rifle hunters complain about archers some how someone has to start a thread about rifle hunters when archery is over and the circle will be almost complete......

I’ve only ever killed one bull with a rifle because I drew a le tag. Ive killed a pile with my bow and feel like some of those ideas would be a great thing to help get some accountability into this.