Reply To: PA Elk Hunt

[Stephen Graf]

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I hear the success rate is near 100%. But not many tags issued.

In Virginia, about 20 a year or so are killed in the counties bordering Tennessee. The DWR was supposed to stop allowing elk to be taken with deer tags and to let the population expand into VA. But I think they got blowback from the various industries (insurance , Farming, etc) happy with the lack of big critters.

in North Carolina the WRC has a don’t ask don’t tell policy about poaching the few elk in our mountains. As long as you can “prove” they ate your petunia (if anyone bothers to ask), you’re good to go. Thus the elk herd hasn’t expanded here. Lucky to survive at all.