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    I wonder if the same would be true of does if we hunted them? I have often characterized does as foolish and careless. Maybe that's just because they are not accustomed to perceiving humans as threats here.

    Anyone have experience with this?

    Where I deer hunt annually, I've been able to approach does to within 8'-10' from camp. The does even come into the hotwire and highlines set up for the horses/mules to steal their pellets. Yet to see a buck among them.

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    After seven years of studying the movements and behaviours of female elk, University of Alberta researchers discovered they become virtually bulletproof as they age.

    Elk learn to become shy as they get older, said University of Alberta biologist Mark Boyce. They hunker down in the deep forest and stay in rugged terrain. Those types of behaviours were very effective (for survival) in heavily hunted areas.

     

    Boyce and two former post-doctoral fellows used radio collars fitted with GPS technology to track elk in southwestern Alberta and southeastern British Columbia between 2007 and 2012.

     

    In their study, published Wednesday, they found female elk learned behaviours that helped them better avoid hunters with each hunting season.

     

    The bold elk move the most, are the most aggressive and will bolt out into the open. Those elk died at a high rate. said Boyce. As they age, they tend to become shy, more savvy, learn to avoid roads.

     

     

    While some elk started out shy, most learned to adopt the shy behaviours.

    The magic number is 10, said Boyce. After this age threshold, female elk become almost bulletproof, virtually invulnerable to hunting.

     

     

    In addition to gaining a better understanding of elk behaviour, Boyce said the study shows that wildlife management and conservation strategies are working.

     

    Weve been very effective, said Boyce. Elk in North America were almost extirpated 100 years ago and now they are abundant.

     

    One of the elk in Boyces study was 23 years old, while many of the other females lived to about age 20.

     

    Male elk tend to live for only four or five years in Alberta because of their bold behaviour and hunters preference for bull elk, Boyce said. Their short lifespans meant they were not part of the study.

     

    The study, titled Learning From the Mistakes of Others: How Female Elk Adjust Behaviour with Age to Avoid Hunters, was published in PLOS One on June 14.

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    I built a costruction/services co. from scratch in ABQ, NM starting in 1989,

     

    I had zero employees. By 1993 I was netting over $150K a year and hired a part timer to service my DOD contracts at the USAF base there and I started taking 5-6 days a week off to work on my ranch in Datil, NM.

     

    The company's​ revenue was growing 100% annually. But the crime even in the nice part of Albuquerque where we had a home, was just horrendous. My home and business were constantly being broken into. My wife was from WA and we decided to sell everything and move there.

     

    And although I loved the outdoors in WA., selling the business was among the worst decisions I have ever made.

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    Took my daughter on her first horseback shed hunt last week. We weren't in the forest an hour when we came across my best find to date. It's massive weighs over 12#. I told her to ride the immediate area looking for the mate, when I see a raghorn 50' away. Hard to believe they're both from the same species.

     

     

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    Found this shed in the same spot last year. Pales in comparison..

     

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    Thanks for everything guys! George Otero out of G & M Tires in Williams helped me get it fixed. Had to go in to Flag for parts. Ended up water pump was shot.

    Not all was a loss however! Fish were biting good and all the kids caught fish. My daughter's Frozen rod was the hot stick. Soak time of less then five minutes and it would get bit! Friends kids all caught their first.attachicon.gifIMG_20170610_183618469_HDR.jpg

     

    Just picked up a couple of "Frozen" rods for my two grand daughters.....looking forward to getting them "hooked" on fishin.

    Glad you got your truck woes taken care of ...... I spent a deer hunt day few years back in a similar boat in Williams trying to get my truck fixed.....

    yup, my truck died in gmu 8 last elk season so now I have contacts there.
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    Looks hot. Why would you be there now?

    Hired to haul a hog but she ran under the mobile home and hid. That's my story.
    I don't blame her.
    why didn't trphyhntr haul his ole lady himself?
    Wha? Ya never woke up with a pig-in-the-blanket?
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