I would hunt them in town, but not with PITA watching. Hunting is a violent bloody affair, always has been and always will. The PITA folks would go ape and its not something you would want June, Beaver and the crew watching out the living room window. Open lots and parks at dawn or dusk without the audience to take out the nuisence animals...and the one carrying around the fence

Pumatrax, I understand what your saying, however this is a "depredation hunt" it's not out in the wild or the high country, yet, it needs to be done.

You cant use a gun ( to close to town )so, why not use tradgear?

I'm not talking about shooting them in the front yard or on the street, how about on the outskirts of town.

As the bowdoc said:
The fact of the matter is....if the towns people whats to get rid of some of the elk they need to allow hunting on their land...nearly everyplace near that town is posted NO HUNTING and just outside town is also part of the Nat.Park boundary...The towns people are to blame for this one and in no way should our tax bucks help out those people getting rid of a problem they caused...If they would have had controlled hunts outside of town on all on their POSTED land they would not be having this problem they are having now..

I have been on a few depredation hunts and I have always used tradgear, let's not confuse this type of hunt with a back country hunt for wild elk.

It's not for everyone and no one is going to make you hunt them, however I will, I'll take an easy elk in the freezer, but again, it's not a real hunt, it's a depredation hunt.

NO confusion here..the original post was about shooting elk IN town. If it doesn't PROMOTE traditional archery ; I wouldn't do it period.In my opinion sticking an elk with an arrow in town AND taking the chance that something might go "wrong "(and it will)...is detrimental to our "sport".In this day and age "we" as trad-archers don't need any more bad PR. (be it from PETA or Joe six-pack).By the way ;if the "hunt" is conducted on the outskirts of town ,why not leave it up to rifle hunters with 300 Win mags ? ...respectfully ; just sayin'

Yes. It's a depredation hunt. But hunt them on the fringes, outside of town, not right in someone's back yard.

Ed
TGMM Family of the Bow

Trust me on this one guy's you arrow one of them elk in sight of the town of Packerwood you will make the evening news for sure....it's gotta be done with do respect to all the people and more so the elk.As mentioned above hunting is a blood sport and sugar cote it anyway you what it can still get real ugly sometimes and if you been bowhunting very long you know what I'am talking about.I say trap the towns people and see how they like it...lets see how some 80 year couple will handle being chased into a net by 3 hilo's and cowboy's on horse back.....hell let's move the town and save the elk.....the elk will pay the price with thier life at some point...so what do ya'all say..lets run the people out of town with torches like an old frankinstien movie....bowdoc

In Estes Park Colorado ; I made the suggestion that the yuppie town FOLK get in their BMW's and Subaroooos and stick their heads out the window while singing "Killer" (by Michael Jackson) to effectively "drive" the elk out of town....and if they return threaten em' with a law suit...anyway ;I rest my case

IF YOU LOVE SOMETHING SET IT FREE............IF IT DOESN'T COME BACK, HUNT IT DOWN AND KILL IT

the net stealer is mine  :D    :D    

the answer may be dogs turned loose on em when they show up...they do that with some kinda bear dog on bears...bet it would work after a while  :rolleyes:

animals learn quick. If there is a threat, they leave, no threat ,they stay. Have a town meeting inviting everyone opposed to hunting them, and all the radio and tv stations. at the same time shoot them all, butcher them, and feed them all to the hungry. No one keeps the animals for themselves. Done. Humanitarian cause. Now let them complain about helping the poor.
IMHO

Town Elk is great with mashed Potatoes... Where do I get a permit?

Nope, wouldn't shoot'em.  A few years back we had a moose running around a small town.  The Environmental Police shot it because it was a real safety hazard with people thinking it was their pet or something.  Bowdoc is right, front page news and the evening news, you'd think they killed bullwinkle.  Now problem animals are "tranquilized".  IMHO there's so much juice in those darts to drop them fast enough no way do they survive, but the public is happy thinking they live happily ever after.