This columnist–a rifle hunter–brings up some good points about the cruelty and waste of bowhunting, but he perceives himself the victim and only mentions the suffering of wounded elk to help make his case…
Bowhunting and elk
Posted: Friday, August 23, 2013
DICK MATTSON
Warrenton
I have hunted elk, usually successfully, in Clatsop County for 60 years, all with a big game rifle, hopefully with one merciful shot. I write to share my experience and knowledge, as I also studied elk habits during my lifetmie, much of it during wonderful scouting trips with my brother, Jim.
The current Clatsop County archery season of 30 days was politically driven by archers to take advantage of the unwary bulls during the mating “rut” season in September. This is wrong, both by lack of biological insight, and by the great disparity to rifle bull elk hunters, who are allowed only a four-day season, or seven days for the last elk season.
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During my investigation years ago, I found that 50 percent of elk wounded by arrows get away to suffer. This was illustrated by a Bill Monroe column where he wrote of two archers’ “success” near Jewell with bow hunting a bull elk. However, both archers had wounded two other elk, which they did not look for. This is a calamity, as well as highly absurd and unfair to elk rifle hunters.
If elk rifle hunters do not care enough to do something, archers will continue to dominate. I suggest a 10 day bull elk rifle season and a 16 day archery elk season, ending by Sept. 10, allowing time for more herd bulls to escape arrows. Herd bulls are needed for a stronger, healthy elk herd.
It’s high time to care about elk seasons.
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We no longer hunt and gather our food, therefore hunting, which is at another predators’ expense, should not be permitted. But if you even mention to a bow hunter that animals they hit with an arrow suffer, they take it personally and tell you they’re responsible. What??? Not at all. How can these people be so blatantly blind and mendacious. A while ago someone bragged that they killed a black bear. It turned out she had been suffering from another hunter’s wound for days and that’s why she was an easy target. These people disgust me.
Argh!!
Are you kidding? That’s awful. That poor poor animal. That makes me so angry. Effing humans!
disgusting morons! the people who hunt animals are perverted and lack any form of compassion
So true, more on that in my post, “Hunting: the ‘Sport’ of Sociopaths”.
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Society is too infantile to evolve into humanity. When Terra 3 decides to shake off this infestation of parasitic fleas; for many it will be well deserving. Maybe, maybe, MAYBE the next occupation will be better….?
The Earth is already inhabited by more worthy creatures, but humans won’t (willingly) let them have the planet back.
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