A little first light luck

[Sytes]

Very nice! Grats!

 

[elkrchr]

Well done. Congrats!

 

[270.Rose]

Congratulations!!

 

[Wallydeuce]

Beautiful! Congratulations!

 

[BucksnDucks]

Love the pic. Classic dusting of snow and morning colors. Congrats

 

[Drake4]

If you would have used a better/bigger bullet, you wouldn't have had to shoot it twice.

 

[geewhiz]

If you shoot the first raghorn you see, how will the bulls ever mature? Seams a little contradictory to your previous mule deer rant.

Must be easier to jump on the mule deer mismanagement bus. Just different since its elk I guess.

Congrats on your elk.

 

[Nick87]

If you shoot the first raghorn you see, how will the bulls ever mature? Seams a little contradictory to your previous mule deer rant.

Just different since its elk I guess.

Congrats on your elk.

...edit, I'll let brockel take it since it was directed to him.

 

[geewhiz]

...edit, I'll let brockel take it since it was directed to him.

Not looking to start a bickering match, just making a statement.

Ill probly get hammered for raining on his parade, but have at it if you so please.

 

[Nick87]

Ill probly get hammered for raining on his parade, but have at it.

There's another thread explaining this very thing..I'll post it when I get a minute.

 

[Nick87]

The Raghorn vs. Forky Discrepancy thread

 

[brockel]

If you shoot the first raghorn you see, how will the bulls ever mature? Seams a little contradictory to your previous mule deer rant.

Must be easier to jump on the mule deer mismanagement bus. Just different since its elk I guess.

Congrats on your elk.

Pretty sure my bitching was about deer numbers not the size of the bucks I was seeing or not seeing. Considering 20 years ago there weren’t elk in this area I’d assume they are doing alright unlike our mule deer

And you are also comparing a carp(mule deer) to an elk(walleye). Sure both are edible but I know which one I’m going to take

 

[trb]

Congrats on the bull and beautiful photo!

 

[Redside]

Nice work!

 

[Deleted member 20812]

Pretty sure my bitching was about deer numbers not the size of the bucks I was seeing or not seeing. Considering 20 years ago there weren’t elk in this area I’d assume they are doing alright unlike our mule deer

Yeah, someone doesn’t understand context at all.

20 years ago there were a lot of places in eastern MT it was a big deal to see elk there, but not at all so for deer. Now it seems things are rather opposite.

 

[CPAjeff]

Congrats on the bull!

 

[geewhiz]

Yeah, someone doesn’t understand context at all.

20 years ago there were a lot of places in eastern MT it was a big deal to see elk there, but not at all so for deer. Now it seems things are rather opposite.

Lived in Montana for 20 years and killed more animals than most of the people on this site. I think I understand context just fine, but interesting thoughts coming from Arkansas.

 

[Deleted member 20812]

Lived in Montana for 20 years and killed more animals than most of the people on this site. I think I understand context just fine, but interesting thoughts coming from Arkansas.

Okay Francis. IYKYK, and you don’t know what you don’t know.

 

[brockel]

Lived in Montana for 20 years and killed more animals than most of the people on this site. I think I understand context just fine, but interesting thoughts coming from Arkansas.

Can we wait till it warms up a little before we start whipping things out and measuring? It’s still a little chilly here this morning.

 

[Deleted member 20812]

Congratulations on the bull.

Imagine what elk numbers would be if we rifle hunted them through the entirety of the rut, and sold OTC cow tags with up to 7 per hunter. Sublime…