Open range if you can get close enough we have a dart gun and Draxxin.
But you need to be within about 25 yards for the 10cc long darts. Elk you could probably use a dart half as long which makes for much less rainbow trajectory.
I knew you guys had it bad up there, but this is the first I seen around here.. Last year I was glassing a large herd over a mile away and I did see one limping.. At that range it could have been anything and hoof rot never entered my mind.. Now I wonder..
I hope so too, but it appears to spread pretty rapidly. Found a spike bull 15-20 years ago that had a 20 yard circle cleared out, he just couldn’t go anymore. They finally did away with cow permits for rifle in several gmu’s up here, and shut down either sex for archery and musket in several units.
Often where snow has been stomped down and froze, their hooves can get small cuts and become more easily infected.
Last year during Wyoming’s bad winter on their artificial feeding grounds, on some of those feeding areas Wyoming thinks they lost as many elk to hoof rot as starvation.
Pretty prolific here in my area. Several animals we’ve harvested in the last ten years have had it. Fortunately it doesn’t affect the meat quality/amount if they aren’t too bad off yet. I mercy killed a bull about 12 years ago that had it so bad he could no longer get on his feet. He was skin and bones and we weren’t able to salvage any meat due to his condition. He had jumped a fence and wasn’t able to get back on his feet. Ground around him was tore up from his struggling. Most herds we see have at least one or two limpers at the back end just trying to keep up.
Open range if you can get close enough we have a dart gun and Draxxin.
But you need to be within about 25 yards for the 10cc long darts. Elk you could probably use a dart half as long which makes for much less rainbow trajectory.
We've got one of these setups too. Has sure been nice to treat cattle on the range!
Ah, crap. I'm just a few miles West of you. I thought you were deep in the Coast Range, for some reason, which was why my first response re the valley. Sad news
Shot a Dall Ram here in Alaska that had rear hoof miising the inner nothing but a shell, was walking with hoof in the air when I shot it. Dont know if it was hoof rot or?
