Elk County Outfitters & The Real Story Of The Pa Elk Hunt: The elk hunt: Creating a healthier herd and thus bigger bulls.

Mission Statement

This blog is to be an educational tool as well as a source of info on the Pa elk, their habitat, and the hunt. It's was also necessary for clearing up alot of uninformed views about the elk hunt and the management plan for the elk herd itself. Negative thoughts are little to worry about but when they become comments and are shouted from the roof tops by people that have a clouded view of something and very little understanding of it, it is not only your right but your duty to correct what is wrong and be a voice for science, fact, and truth.

Thursday, December 31, 2009

The elk hunt: Creating a healthier herd and thus bigger bulls.

Opponents of the PA elk hunt have stated the adverse effects that the recent elk hunts have had on the herd and in paticular the number of "monster bulls" that are present for tourist's easy viewing pleasure. It has been stated that if the hunt is to go on unchanged we will hurt the herd and that not only will there be less but there will be no more mature bulls to view. This will then cause a halt to the tourist business in and around the Winslow Hill area. If this were true than a look at the bulls harvested from the first year of the hunt to the most recent hunt would show a decline in the size of the bulls taken. In fact if you have a animal that had not been hunted for seventy years, the first few years of the hunt there should have been bulls of grandiose proportions to go around to all hunters. Let's face it with no hunting the elk would have been dying off of old age and reaching the peak of their size.Over the next few posts I will comprise a grouping of bulls from the most recent years and heading back to the first year of the hunt. Even with stacking the odds in favor of the early years of the hunt (the no hunting for seventy-years), I doubt these people are right. If they are than we will see that the bulls taken in the early years of the hunt are larger on average than those taken now. This would be concrete proof that there are fewer large bulls now than there were in the past.

I already know the answer to this part of the debate, follow along and I will show you the real story of the PA elk hunt.

2009 Hunt (Here are twelve to start with, more to follow)