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Did you check inside its mouth.................probably still had some of mommys milk in there.
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who the hell shoots a calf? if i had an antlerless tag id be looking for a mature cow and if not then just eat my tag. this is what anti hunters use to shut us down. Who are you to judge what anyone else shoots! If it's legal, who cares? Besides you obviously. I've been a member on this site long enough to see the constant childish BS. For all you know the man may just be trying to put food on the table. If you don't agree with what he does just keep your opinion to yourself and go on about life. There is NO need to post a comment about what somebody shoots or should have shot other than congratulations. Just my 2 cents. Congratulations Clarkm!
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Hey that’s more of an elk than 99 percent of the guys I know have killed. Most of them can’t get off the couch long enough or can’t possibly drive to the mtns and go hunting somewhere they’ve never been. Hope it’s good eating for you.
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Congrats on making meat.
Many people call calves yearlings.
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only the ones that don't know the difference....
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In general "yearlings" are defined as having lived at least a year....
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This is what a yearling elk bull or cow will look like for size. Pic taken on game cam in Sept 2018 in my driveway. This guy would have been born around June 1, 2017, so about 15 months old. This is what a elk calf would look like in September at about 3-4 months old. Pic taken also in Sept this year by gamecam at my watertrough. t
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In general "yearlings" are defined as having lived at least a year.... All those backeasters that age their deer as 3 1/2, 4 1/2, 5 1/2 year olds instead of them just being even years like their kids by birthday, would call this elk a half-year old.....
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In general "yearlings" are defined as having lived at least a year.... All those backeasters that age their deer as 3 1/2, 4 1/2, 5 1/2 year olds instead of them just being even years like their kids by birthday, would call this elk a half-year old..... 😄
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A good reminder that the neck is never an appropriate place to shoot an elk, or probably any game animal. They MAY drop, but it's entirely possible for a bullet to pass through the neck without hitting anything vital.
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In general "yearlings" are defined as having lived at least a year.... All those backeasters that age their deer as 3 1/2, 4 1/2, 5 1/2 year olds instead of them just being even years like their kids by birthday, would call this elk a half-year old..... I never have figured out where that came from. Being a westerner, I don't play.
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who the hell shoots a calf? if i had an antlerless tag id be looking for a mature cow and if not then just eat my tag. this is what anti hunters use to shut us down. Who are you to judge what anyone else shoots! If it's legal, who cares? Besides you obviously. I've been a member on this site long enough to see the constant childish BS. For all you know the man may just be trying to put food on the table. If you don't agree with what he does just keep your opinion to yourself and go on about life. There is NO need to post a comment about what somebody shoots or should have shot other than congratulations. Just my 2 cents. Congratulations Clarkm! We call it live and let live but it seems there's an ever dwindling supply of that nowadays.
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who the hell shoots a calf? if i had an antlerless tag id be looking for a mature cow and if not then just eat my tag. this is what anti hunters use to shut us down. Did you happen to notice this? "A week ago several elk were taken in the same area. I hear it was a regular bullet festival. This one was an orphan trying to cross a fence to join some beef cows."
I bet it's tasty!
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This year, I killed a yearling with my muzzleloader... Guilt free.... Last year I killed this calf with my muzzleloader, shortly after killing it's mother with my muzzleloader.. All guilt free.... This year my wife killed this calf with my rifle, very shortly after I killed its mother with my rifle.... I was pretty guilt free but my wife didn't enjoy shooting the calf. She says she never will again and I'll respect that. But she sure loves eating them... Calf elk is the 2nd best piece of elk steak there is. Followed by a yearling because they taste very similarly delicious, just about 100 more pounds of meat on a yearling compared to a calf... All you anti hunter sympathizers that are worried about their little anti feelings need to grow a set of nuts and realize they could care less what you kill. You can hide in a closet for what you are all you want. A legally taken elk is a legally taken elk. Go pound sand if you have a problem with it and think your hunting ethics somehow make you superior to those who subsist of wild game instead of needing a trophy rack for the wall. We're all murderers in the eyes of antis.. Who gives a crap what they think.... Todd
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justahunter. you are dead nuts right with what you posted . if it is legal and you kill it any body that don't like it should shut the fugg up
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Idaho recognizes only 2 types of elk - antlered and antler-less. The legal difference is whether the longest antler (if any) exceeds 6" in length. A spike with antlers that small is so rare that guessing the length is almost irrelevant.
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who the hell shoots a calf? if i had an antlerless tag id be looking for a mature cow and if not then just eat my tag. this is what anti hunters use to shut us down. Can you be a sport and explain how killing a calf impacts the herd negatively as opposed to a cow? And why Game and Fish departments use the criteria of antlerless to manage game? Or do you not care about that and are just taking this opportunity to judge others with your emotion-based yet fact-less ethics and crackpot lay-theories?
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Calves make up the biggest share of winter kill. Shooting a calf that could well not survive anyway is better for the herd than shooting a producing cow that's almost certain to survive.
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Winter kill is now but a myth. All little calves will surely survive to old age due to global warming.......
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How much does a calf when its gutted?
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