Guy Miner
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- Apr 6, 2006
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Opening of our local "any elk" season was this morning, yet here I am, slurping coffee, slumming on the internet with you guys :grin: , only miles from my elk area... I have to be at work for part of the day, stuff I'm deeply involved in and have to handle myself. Doggone it.
So I miss today, but tomorrow... Hope my son will have time to accompany me. He'll tote the .30-06, I'll have the .375 of course! Needed? No - but fun.
This is a low percentage hunt, opened largely so that the WDFW can tell local land owners they're trying to control the elk herd. There are a few small herds that have split off from the main herd, and every year we get a chance to chase 'em around the hills. This morning is The Time to be doing so, before the elk figure out that all those guys walking around the hills aren't casual hikers.
Our regular season, when we can hunt the main herd, is spike bull only. This one though is for any elk, but cuts out the area where the big herd resides. Kind of weird, but it works for our area. I think the real goal is to keep these smaller herds from becoming big herds and becoming a problem for local farmers.
Tomorrow I hunt! Only for a day, but an elk hunt!
Guy
So I miss today, but tomorrow... Hope my son will have time to accompany me. He'll tote the .30-06, I'll have the .375 of course! Needed? No - but fun.
This is a low percentage hunt, opened largely so that the WDFW can tell local land owners they're trying to control the elk herd. There are a few small herds that have split off from the main herd, and every year we get a chance to chase 'em around the hills. This morning is The Time to be doing so, before the elk figure out that all those guys walking around the hills aren't casual hikers.
Our regular season, when we can hunt the main herd, is spike bull only. This one though is for any elk, but cuts out the area where the big herd resides. Kind of weird, but it works for our area. I think the real goal is to keep these smaller herds from becoming big herds and becoming a problem for local farmers.
Tomorrow I hunt! Only for a day, but an elk hunt!
Guy