my hunting partner and i looked at both marshall and metcalf last year. mr says metcalf is good for 4-5 days - which is what we did. having said that, we could have made it go for a week (anything beyond a week, probably need marshall). imho - having the slightly smaller pack is better (for...
https://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/whbprogram/history_and_facts/quick_facts.html
This link shows latest numbers.
FY 2015, we spent 75 mil on horses
total population on range as of 3-1-16 was estimated at 67k, the maximum "appropriate management level" is 26,715
off range, there's another 45k+
Then you have people like this: http://wildhorsepreservation.org/problem
who despite the overwhelming evidence of the destruction wild horses cause to native landscapes and the exponential growth in the population, put out pure lies claiming horses are in decline. smh
I'm not crazy about the law on this, but simply actually following the law could bring horse numbers back to where they should be:
https://www.wildhorseandburro.blm.gov/92-195.htm
The Secretary shall cause additional excess wild free roaming horses and burros for which an adoption demand by...
Yeah, this thread got derailed.
I did a presentation on this for my rotary club last year - all my numbers were from May 2016 and largely from memory now. Basically biologist were saying that the range in the West could handle around 26k horses/burros, but there were about 50k on the range and...
My brothers-in-law (2) and I each killed one last year - mid-october. I shot mine on a cool (not cold) overcast day around noon. I unfortunately couldn't get to it right away as my bro-in-law was right there with me putting a stalk on another one. If I had to guess it was 2 hours before I got...
Thanks for the post Tom. Apologies for not getting back promptly. As discussed yesterday, I'm still interested if your other deal falls through. thanks