Pine-Creek said:
Gentlemen,
I was raised in that era and we shot Owls, Fox and other predators on sight, to keep our small game numbers high, don't let any one tell you it does not work, cause it does.
Trapping helps also, and we need to go back to it, if we ever expect to see a decent growing Grouse pupolation in this state again.
Pine Creek/Dave
You're right!
I remember many years ago when you could kill great horned owls.
Putting up a trap on the end of a post, as someone else mentioned, is a real killer.
A brush pile in a field.... 2x4x8 with a trap fastened to one end, stood up in the brush pile, it becomes a perch for the owls to hunt from.
I remember one guy that done it back then and caught a couple great horned owls the first week it was out.
Another article in a magazine back then... after the snow melted from that winter, the writer went to where there was a great horned owl's nest. There on the ground, were the skulls of over 20 rabbits.
Great horned owls, nocturnal.
Rabbits, mostly nocturnal.
Snow on the ground...... rabbits an easy target.