The Wilks bros. are likely very motivated to make this happen. I agree with others that have suggested an exchange of similar elk habitat. The land to the west of red hill road is decent for a very short distance, then becomes almost devoid of feed, water and elk. Any elk that were using the...
The Wilkes would like to own the entire area if possible. They have been offering money to the very few remaining adjacent landowners on a regular basis despite the lands not even being on the market. Most have said NO WAY. A recently deceased landowners parcels in the SW regions of the LS...
Ok- I'll buy 250 pounds of useable meat on some big bulls that can be brought out without being boned out in the field- which can lead to considerable more loss even for the most careful hunters. However, just to make sure I wasn't too crazy I did a quick internet search. The most complete...
Nice article but Randy should be more accurate on his suggested yield of 300# of lean meat from an elk. Only rare cases will a large bodied bull yield this amount of edible cuts. A typical younger bull is more on the order of 140# packaged product once all the trim is removed.