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Spiderman, you either weren't aware of it or not old enough at the time Montana debated game farms. The debate got going here because elk escaped a game farm facility near Philipsburg Montana. They rounded them up thankfully, then tested them for disease. Your wonderfully cared for livestock elk indeed had CWD. Had they escaped and not been caught the FW&Ps along with the WS would have sent in helicopters and federal and state sharp shooters and annihilated every animal in a 50 mile radius. The Anaconda Pintler Wilderness would have been shot out, because of a game farm.
Around a year later a animal from a game farm over by Billings was confirmed with TB. It had escaped along with others that didn't get gathered up. The Sharp shooters descended upon the region and killed every animal that they found. Don't tell us that we have nothing to fear from game farms. That's big time BS. CWD, takes years to show up, the only test for it is conducted on the brain. Tests aren't taken on all animals because of obvious reasons. If you have game farms in your state you playing Russian roulette with you wildlife populations. I can go on and on why game farms suck but your probably a rancher or farmer yourself so I'm wasting my time with you. This isn't hunter against hunter, it's hunters saving and perpetuating their sport for future generations. Without the wildlife to hunt, it's just hiking. You can't claim hunter against hunter, because hunters only hunt fair chase. The rest is slaughtering livestock.
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Spider there is all kinds of proof here in Montana showing just the opposite of your claims.The ONLY place we have found CWD is in game farms,after YEARS of testing harveste game.WE didnt need game farms here and when they posed a threat to our way of life we got rid of them,problem solved.BTW,we still test for CWD every year and still havnt seen a single case outside your "well cared for livestock".The HUNTERS in MT stood up and showed exactly how they feel about your livestock operations,you know who was defending them,guys like you who run the operation,NOBODY else.For one Im proud to have been part of the movement that started your "domino effect",we attended the public comment F%G meetings and waited for hours to share our opinion along with hundreds of other hunters from the local area,this was repeated at every meeting they had across the state.The public opinion was 99.9% in favor of doing away with canned hunting operations,that backe up with the evidence that they were bringing CWD into our state along with the multiple cases of game farmers building inaduquate fences that wouldnt hold elk and/or blocke ancient migration routes was enough to seal the deal.Our hunter numbers are on the rise here in MT every year,getting rid of the livestock shoots didnt harm hunting one little bit,it was a great move.Ill bet 95% of you game farm supporters would do a 180 when you found out they might be introducing CWD to your local herds,tell me you wouldnt................BTW IMO if you think game farm shooting is hunting you dont know what hunting really is,its a quest for something very hard to achieve,a challenge that more often than not ends in failure,the most enjoyable failure on this planet.Canned hunts are for those that want to call themselves hunters but dont really want to hunt,they cant handle the possability of failure,they just want a head on the wall to show their buddys.I have memorys of many unsucssesful hunts that would rival any memory of shooting a 400" bull on a game farm,guess I value the hunt more than the trophy,something that isnt in a canned shoot,the hunt.
