I realized something today;

• I will never fit in with women hunters because I don’t hunt.
• I will never fit in with wives of hunters because I don’t complain about my husband hunting.

After reviewing my Google Analytics, I realized I’m not part of the hunting wives club.  Or wives of hunters club.  I’ll just never fit in with either side. I’m the loner.  No wonder I lay around during hunting season.  No one wants to be with me.  I’m the loser that lays around watching loves movies and eats.  And naps.  And eats.

Google Analytics can provide you with lots of information about your site and what others searched on Google that got them to your site. This is what some wives searched and how they got to my site.

The Wives of Hunters Club:

Wives against husbands hunting – This wife or wives were on my site for about 20 minutes. They were stalking me.  And probably talking behind my computer screen. “Is she crazy? She will ruin it for all of us.”

Check list for wives to give to husbands – My husband is a big boy and doesn’t need my check list.  He has his own.  Well except I do insist on one thing.  He has to wash his own whities.

Fat lazy hunting husbands – I don’t have one of those. Sometimes I wish I did. It’s hard pretending to be busy when your husband is doing all the work.

How to tell your wife you’re going hunting – I’m going hunting.

The Hunting Wives Club:

I love that I’m a better hunter than my husband – That is really mean to say.  You probably hurt your husband’s feelings.

My fish is bigger than my husband’s fish – I love when that happens and you bounce around the boat rubbing it in.

My hunting wife eats fireflies – What in the bug juice? Excuse me, your teeth sure are glowing today. What do you use?

Have a wonderful weekend all …  I’ll forever be a loner.

Cute Image from: Firefly Graphics

See the original article at TheHuntersWife.net

This graph is from Idahos Lolo Zone elk harvest 1989-2008

The IDFG just completed the Lolo Zone aerial elk count recently and the numbers aren’t pretty, but they are just what everybody already knew. Now that we have some scientific data they can do something… maybe. Remember the wolves arrived in only 1995!

From the Idaho Fish and Game:

“We are seeing continued declines of elk numbers in the Lolo Zone,” Crenshaw said. “Data is indicating a 50 percent decline from 2006.”

The total number of elk counted during recently completed aerial surveys dropped from 3,452 four years ago to 1,473 this year. Cow elk dropped from 2,276 to 824 and calves from 669 to 144. Bulls are doing a bit better. They went from 504 to 461. But Crenshaw said bull numbers “…won’t stay at that level if few young elk survive to replace them. With such poor recruitment anticipated we expect them to be affected in the next couple of years as well.”

He said tag sales for the zone could be further capped, but hunters are already abandoning the zone and the restrictions might not be necessary.

“Around half of the resident tags were left unsold last year and about two-thirds of outfitter tags were left unsold. Nonresidents did use all of their tags, but (overall) participation rates have slowed down,” he said. “The question now is what would be the appropriate response.”

See the original article at GotHunts.com