Report Nr. 3085 1987 Elk Hunt Data Summary

The 1987 elk hunting season was a 6-day hunt held December 8-13. The 130 successful permittees, who appeared for the required pre-hunt Orientation Program in Atlanta on December 7, were drawn from 38,546 applications. One hundred twenty-nine of the 130 hunters bagged a legal elk for a 99% success rate. The lone "unsuccessful" hunter shot a spike bull on his Antlerless Permit. The legal kill of 129 included 48 bulls, 73 cows, and 8 calves. The legal harvest of bulls was 1 short of the bull quota because 1 hunter took a cow on his Hunter Choice tag. The antlerless quota was met with the kill of 81 cows and calves.