Re: Kootney elk
Originally Posted by
Bugle M In
I wouldn't look at it that way (even though the way I speak makes it sound like that)
There is no comparison to the EK and it's landscape, even if the odds are so crappy at times.
Everyone should at least go there once if they hunt.
I go because it is an amazing place, it's become a place where I have spent many hours with my dad and uncles, and other relatives and friends over the years….tradition.
I am just pissed because there is no need for game like elk to drop to those levels as of late.
And worse, to have had a policy to drop elk that low.
And the worst, now to only want about half of the elk compared to when hunting for elk was half decent.
They got all hung up about the elk in the lowlands and wanted them Culled, which they did and too much
they realized in the end.
THE BIGGER Problem is:
No one was listening to a lot of experienced hunters that elk were "not in the back country".
So, zone X was not only culling elk from the lowland #'s, but from all the #'s of elk.
(for the most part anyways).
If they want no more elk than 8,000 in the Zone X regions...fine!
But what they "failed" to do was get elk to move back and repopulate the areas outside of Zone X.
And that's were another member with experience stated it will be hard to repopulate the back country
without elk in the low country like zoneX
It's just F'd thinking at this point and no desire it seems to correct it properly or to listen to hunters.
But hunting the EK is an experience everyone should try, at least once.
The Goat hunting can be spectacular and nothing else compares to the views up top.
Getting the overall frustration, the biggest imo is the government doesn’t seem to really care, the mismanagement is crazy!
I like drinking beer and whiskey, shooting guns, jetboating, love a nice rack and a tight line, I am simply a sophisticated redneck...