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Old 10-08-2008 | 07:59 AM
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Default RE: Elk Ranches...

New law proposed. Any canned hunts (AKA shooting livestock behind a fence) are legal as long as the antlers have been cut off ahead of time. The "sport" can only have the meat. Without the antlers there probably won't be much killing....
Seriously though, I hate to see any of it happening. The amount of money someone will spend for a large set of antlers is getting ridiculous. The only thing it leads to is keeping the common man out of the game. In the past hunting permission in the mid west could be granted with a handshake. Now it has to have several thousand greenbacks with it. The costs associated with hunting have gone up faster than the price of gasoline last summer with no end in sight. Biologically speaking, the spread of CWD, blue tongue, brucellosis and other cervid communicable diseases will limit the influx of these wild game farms soon enough in most states. If any area thinks they are immune to the spread they have their heads in the sand.


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