Endangered Grizzly Bear Photo Thread
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BigHornRam
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Extremely hard place for bighorns and other ungulates to make a living year round.
TrumpkinTheDwarf
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Emerging from a self imposed exile to chime in here. I for one am grateful for this thread, and simultaneously support its demise. I was going to take my crack at the cats last year, but some dramatic health issues intervened. That really stung, as I grew up in those mountains. They still feel like home, even while I live thousands of miles away.
Right now, I can't foresee any way for me to ever get to go home and do this unless the attention dwindles a little bit and keeps the kittens growing into toms. I think the real canary in the coalmines for me was the back to back bloodbath's in everyone's favorite unit. The Bodingtwine feline is another sickening waypoint in the change of my opinion, but the real icing on the cake was when I started seeing random people talk endlessly about this once hidden gem on insta and fb. The tragedy of the commons is real, and sometimes we need to shut up and protect the wild places.
Right now, I can't foresee any way for me to ever get to go home and do this unless the attention dwindles a little bit and keeps the kittens growing into toms. I think the real canary in the coalmines for me was the back to back bloodbath's in everyone's favorite unit. The Bodingtwine feline is another sickening waypoint in the change of my opinion, but the real icing on the cake was when I started seeing random people talk endlessly about this once hidden gem on insta and fb. The tragedy of the commons is real, and sometimes we need to shut up and protect the wild places.
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Algo takes time to update rankings... If people don't click, it will drop.
i have read this thread and kept up with it. You can subtract my views of the pictures as I have no personal desire to shoot a cat. It is just an entertaining thread, so not everyone who reads this is jonesing to hunt a feline.
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Tabor is a douche bag. Every year it's something with that guy. Only because he hasn't drawn a tag.
Btw this thread is supposed to be dead.
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No you're definitely not reading it wrong.
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That guy should do something useful like make landowner tags only good for their property when they draw instead of the entire unit what a meat head
Tabor has had some good amendments and some bad as well. Region 7 mule deer doe tags was a good one. This one doesn’t seem bad either.
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Gerald Martin
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This amendment would definitely decrease the amount of unlimited hunters. With 0 points and having drawn a limited tag, I don’t have strong feelings about this, but I think I would support it.
However, there may be a bit of selfish interest at play on my part since I only plan to hunt unlimited if I decide to sheep hunt again when I am eligible in 6 years.
However, there may be a bit of selfish interest at play on my part since I only plan to hunt unlimited if I decide to sheep hunt again when I am eligible in 6 years.
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Yeah because you have so much experience in the unlimiteds dbag.
perma
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So this isn’t a thread about cats?
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Yeah because this is a bigger problem than guys like you getting to shoot two bighorn rams in Montana. Gtfoh
BigHornRam
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I could change the thread title to political piss fest if you like.
My question is… if the absolute bare minimum, basic thing won’t be enforced, which is that a ram has to have a legal curl to be killed, why worry about changing anything else?
If I don’t have to kill a 3/4 ram, why do I have to pay attention to the quota, if the ram is in the unit, or anything else.
I’m not interested in changing much until FWP starts enforcing the basics of what exists.
I also don’t see there as being major problems in the unlimiteds beyond what I mentioned above with enforcement.
I rarely ever see another hunter except along the trail on the way out. Lace ‘em up tighter if it feels crowded.
You can’t go to Boulder Pass, Mystic Lake or the pavement of the Beartooth highway and then be frustrated that there are other hunters.
If I don’t have to kill a 3/4 ram, why do I have to pay attention to the quota, if the ram is in the unit, or anything else.
I’m not interested in changing much until FWP starts enforcing the basics of what exists.
I also don’t see there as being major problems in the unlimiteds beyond what I mentioned above with enforcement.
I rarely ever see another hunter except along the trail on the way out. Lace ‘em up tighter if it feels crowded.
You can’t go to Boulder Pass, Mystic Lake or the pavement of the Beartooth highway and then be frustrated that there are other hunters.
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375H&H
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I stumbled across the harvest data for an unlimited unit recently and where it was posted they had killed a ram was about 99% not where it was killed IMO. Can’t believe FWP just glosses over those things but after reading all the posts they likely do just that.
