splitting the tag numbers into seperate seasons , couldn't hurt.
I got an OTC cow tag this year . until this year ,I believe there was something like 500 tags in oct and 500 in November .
fish and game decided there was a need to kill off /decrease the herd size , which is all fine and good . if they think it needs done ,fine so be it . problem is ,in their infinite wisdom , they did away with the October hunt completely and capped the November hunt at 2500 , creating a complete cluster$#%k of pressure . they did succeed in their ultimate goal of selling more tags, though I doubt as many elk were killed as in past years . will be very interesting to see what the kill statistics are from this years joke of a season.
my question is ,why on earth would they do such a thing??????
need to kill more elk , fine , sell more tags but wouldn't it have made more sense to have an oct hunt with 1250 tags and then a nov hunt with 1250??????? or even split it into 4 different two week seasons with 6 or 7 hundred tags????????
the logic of their thinking totally escapes me.
it is right up there with the idiot landowners who complain that the herds are to big and choose to protest by not allowing hunter access.
heck if we are really gonna be so stupid with management policies, why not just open the winter grounds to the public and tell people they are welcome to any winterkill the manage to create?
joking of coarse . my point is , there has got to be a more rational approach to management then what they chose . mine may not be the answer either but it sure makes a lot more sense.