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Shoot or No Shot 2019 - Episode #1

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Shoot or No Shot 2019 - Episode #1

Postby WapitiTalk1 » 01 22, 2019 •  [Post 1]

Tale of the tape. It's the 8th day of your 10 day Idaho archery elk hunt. Today is 23 September 2019. You've had some very good bugling action during your hunt, managing to get within 30ish yards of several decent bulls but no shot opportunities yet (this is a bull only area). As an OOS hunter in Idaho, you can use your elk tag (if you wish) on either a bear or a cougar. Yah, I know.... pretty cool rule. You've taken a few elk with a bow over the course of your hunting career but never a big cat (with any weapon). If this guy walked by you while you were quietly having a mid-day snack, would an arrow fly? Just curious. If you're shooting the cat, please put a mark where your arrow is heading. Charlie Cougar is about 35 yards from where you sit. Remember if you decide to take the cat, that elk tag is spent. Shoot or no shot?

Reminder that if you save the picture to your desktop and open in MS Paint, you'll be able to place a spot, X, or whatever on the critter before you save it back to a jpg and add the marked up pic with your post.
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Re: Shoot or No Shot 2019 - Episode #1

Postby six » 01 22, 2019 •  [Post 2]

I've never even seen a cat in the wild so I'm shooting.

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Re: Shoot or No Shot 2019 - Episode #1

Postby Swede » 01 22, 2019 •  [Post 3]

I don't eat cat.
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Re: Shoot or No Shot 2019 - Episode #1

Postby saddlesore » 01 22, 2019 •  [Post 4]

It walks I don't need to kill every thing I might see elk hunting
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Re: Shoot or No Shot 2019 - Episode #1

Postby Indian Summer » 01 22, 2019 •  [Post 5]

Swede I bet if I served you a lion chop from a lion you wouldn’t blink an eye thinking it was a boneless pork chop. It’s identical.

That’s a nice sized tom. I’ve killed a lion with my bow but according to your scenario I’ve never killed one so I’m shooting exactly where six is!
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Re: Shoot or No Shot 2019 - Episode #1

Postby Swede » 01 22, 2019 •  [Post 6]

Pork chops are less that $4.00 in local stores. Why would I forfeit a $650 license/tag to get less than 50# of Cat that is indistinguishable from pork? BTW I have eaten cougar. It is finer grained than pork, and I did not think it was all that good either. It could be the way it was prepared.
Cat the other white meat. :lol:
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Re: Shoot or No Shot 2019 - Episode #1

Postby Indian Summer » 01 22, 2019 •  [Post 7]

Swede wrote:Pork chops are less that $4.00 in local stores. Why would I forfeit a $650 license/tag to get less than 50# of Cat that is indistinguishable from pork? BTW I have eaten cougar. It is finer grained than pork, and I did not think it was all that good either. It could be the way it was prepared.
Cat the other white meat. :lol:



Have you compared the cost of beef to an out of state elk hunt? You are 80% done hunting elk... you’ve gotten to experience the hunt, and God has granted you a very unique opportunity. One in the hand is worth two in the dark timber. :D
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Re: Shoot or No Shot 2019 - Episode #1

Postby Swede » 01 22, 2019 •  [Post 8]

I get your point, but since you said it is like pork, I just went to the logical conclusion. It reminds me that when someone wants me to go out and get a snake or rat or something else, that I would only eat if I was desperate, they often say, "it tastes like chicken."
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Re: Shoot or No Shot 2019 - Episode #1

Postby Lsb » 01 23, 2019 •  [Post 9]

Fried rattlesnake is delicious, lots of bones. I'd shoot the cat
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Re: Shoot or No Shot 2019 - Episode #1

Postby Lefty » 01 23, 2019 •  [Post 10]

Im shooting a cat or a wolf in trade for an OOS tag

Oh wait I have a resident Sportsmans package I can take a deer, elk, bear, lion or wolf.


Yep that's where Im at too.
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