The serious "drouth"?

3387 Views 22 Replies 12 Participants Last post by Flyfishn247, Aug 11, 2015

#1DEER 1-I

Discussion Starter · Jul 21, 2015 (Edited by Moderator)

Hey all you wise cattlemen that showed up at the April meeting, have you noticed yet we still haven't dried out? Those wise old boys that know so much and jumped on our elk herd before the August meeting can eat their words. That "serious" drouth we were in kind of got washed away by nearly a good storm per week all summer.

I know know,I should get over it already. But with a storm in the forecast for tomorrow and next week, those that said wait to make the decision were about, 100% right. Maybe next year those smarter than the rest of us good ole boys should be told to shove it before we agree to slaughter our elk herd again.

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Iron Bear

· #21 · Aug 11, 2015

Next you might say. Wildlife is a public resource. Those ranchers should have no more say then anybody else. It's true they do belong to the public of which %90 don't hunt and 60% would just assume you didn't kill any animals.

So as thing are today I'm fine with a minority forcing there agenda on the majority.

I'm afraid if left up to the masses. I'd have to go east to shoot a deer where hunting is still necessary for herd health.

I like ranchers.

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Discussion Starter · #22 · Aug 11, 2015

Iron Bear said:
Next you might say. Wildlife is a public resource. Those ranchers should have no more say then anybody else. It's true they do belong to the public of which %90 don't hunt and 60% would just assume you didn't kill any animals.

So as thing are today I'm fine with a minority forcing there agenda on the majority.

I'm afraid if left up to the masses. I'd have to go east to shoot a deer where hunting is still necessary for herd health.

I like ranchers.

Im not against all ranchers, just the welfare ranchers who believe their interests top all else and are stuck in the past. As for the forest service, I'm more willing to see their side because what they're doing means more elk in the future. What the ranchers are doing is striving for as minimal elk populations as they can because they believe public resources belong to them and their bottom line. That 90% you're talking about would kick those welfare boys off just as quick as U.S. If they found out how much they're costing them in tax dollars every year, so it's a double edged sword.

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Flyfishn247

· #23 · Aug 11, 2015

I am just mad I have to pay $12 for a T-bone. With subsidies and public land grazing, drop the price a bit. It does help my argument with the wife to justify hunting more big game to stock up the freezer though. Catch 22....

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