One Shot Dying?

elks96 · Sep 24, 2024

This year the one shot hunt came and went here in Lander. It was hardly advertised. There was no local media coverage with any depth. To my knowledge, they held one brief radio blurb and that was all. In our local news, there were no articles locally other than a single notice of a closure in sinks for the group.

The comments on that local announcement were not overly favorable. Despite my attempts to contact the hunt. There was no public list of the participants. No list of participants on the web page to be found, etc.

This here is the only article I have found.

Nevada Team Took Team Win at 80th One Shot Hunt

The team of hunters from the State of Nevada scored three kills, the only team to do so, and came away as the champions of the 2024 and 84th annual

www.wyotoday.com

I hope someday we can change this hunt and have the tags back into the hands of the public. Or at the very least have the tags available for bid by different nonprofits and have the tags actually raise money for conservation efforts here for our benefit!

They kept it hush hush this year…

jm77 · Sep 24, 2024

Guess the Wyoming team choked pretty good. Who would have thought?

The One Shot will hide in the basement as long as they get the tags for the past shooters. Disgusting...

elks96 · Sep 24, 2024

jm77 said:
Guess the Wyoming team choked pretty good. Who would have thought?

The One Shot will hide in the basement as long as they get the tags for the past shooters. Disgusting...

The interesting thing. When I first moved here the One Shot was a big deal lots of people in town talk about. You hear discussions at the bar, in restaurants, etc. at that time is was a mix of grumbles from those that spoke against and many who still believed it was such a good thing for town. For the last several years they have toned down the publicity. This year we did not see any banners, no welcome one shot hunters, etc. they did not advertise the list of teams etc.

I truly feel like the tide even in Lander has turned. That since the bad winter and the draw odds are getting worse, people are seeing the negative aspects and as such they are “hiding in the basement”.

DESKPOP · Sep 25, 2024

elks96 said:
The interesting thing. When I first moved here the One Shot was a big deal lots of people in town talk about. You hear discussions at the bar, in restaurants, etc. at that time is was a mix of grumbles from those that spoke against and many who still believed it was such a good thing for town. For the last several years they have toned down the publicity. This year we did not see any banners, no welcome one shot hunters, etc. they did not advertise the list of teams etc.

I truly feel like the tide even in Lander has turned. That since the bad winter and the draw odds are getting worse, people are seeing the negative aspects and as such they are “hiding in the basement”.

I saw a few guys around town with the leather patch on their lanyards. They looked like the typical one shot competitors you see every year. Just another welfare tag program for the well healed and influential. Hopefully they do away with it.

elks96 · Sep 25, 2024

DESKPOP said:
I saw a few guys around town with the leather patch on their lanyards. They looked like the typical one shot competitors you see every year. Just another welfare tag program for the well healed and influential. Hopefully they do away with it.

We never even crossed paths with one… would
You agree the tide has shifted locally on the hunt?

mulecreek · Sep 25, 2024

jm77 said:
Guess the Wyoming team choked pretty good. Who would have thought?

The One Shot will hide in the basement as long as they get the tags for the past shooters. Disgusting...

Should have given Gordons tag to Hageman. She knows how to get sh!t done.

nfh · Sep 25, 2024

This looks good when Brian dip$hit is on the wyo team.

Good hell.

elks96 · Sep 25, 2024

nfh said:
This looks good when Brian dip$hit is on the wyo team.

Good hell.

Haha. I noticed that as well.

Bookhead · Sep 25, 2024

So the competition is to see who can kill all their goats the fastest? Classy

mulecreek · Sep 25, 2024

nfh said:
This looks good when Brian dip$hit is on the wyo team.

Good hell.

World's sh!ttiest Golden Parachute.

mulecreek · Sep 25, 2024

Bookhead said:
So the competition is to see who can kill all their goats the fastest? Classy

The One Shot is dripping with class. But where else is the Gov going to be able to rub elbows with former Div II football players and current used car salesmen.

nfh · Sep 25, 2024

Its my goal to start a one shot elk hunt. late season tags. Get to hunt in hard to draw areas. Which means we take tags from the public.

on top of it our profits will pay for nice dinners, any gear we need. Still looking for entertainment. having people dance like Indians in dresses is not my style.

Whatever profits we have left we will do a little water project to please the public. who is in???????????????

elks96 · Sep 25, 2024

Bookhead said:
So the competition is to see who can kill all their goats the fastest? Classy

Yep and with only one shot. If you miss you are shamed and until pretty recent if you missed you were forced to dress up like a Squaw.

nfh · Sep 25, 2024

Remember the task force? I brought this issue up in a local meeting. 99 percent of the public members had no idea what i was discussing. The worthless task force members didnt give a chit about what i had to say. Locals are shocked when i dont vote for Lee Livingtson in our county. He was a selfish county commissioner, well pretty much any commissioner we have is a joke

elks96 · Sep 25, 2024

nfh said:
Remember the task force? I brought this issue up in a local meeting. 99 percent of the public members had no idea what i was discussing. The worthless task force members didnt give a chit about what i had to say. Locals are shocked when i dont vote for Lee Livingtson in our county. He was a selfish county commissioner, well pretty much any commissioner we have is a joke

Yes as people learn about the hunt more and more are not in support of it. The only arguments I get back are... 80 tags not that much. Then I get the well the rich people spend so much money in Lander. Sorry but what they spend is not that important.

I love how everyone tells me I am just jealous... Truth is I likely wouldn't hunt those units at all but 80 tags is a chunk and overtime that is a massive number of tags taken from the public.

Chesterwyo · Sep 25, 2024

The one shot is becoming like Bohemian Grove.

MrShane · Sep 25, 2024

elks96 said:
Yes as people learn about the hunt more and more are not in support of it. The only arguments I get back are... 80 tags not that much. Then I get the well the rich people spend so much money in Lander. Sorry but what they spend is not that important.

I love how everyone tells me I am just jealous... Truth is I likely wouldn't hunt those units at all but 80 tags is a chunk and overtime that is a massive number of tags taken from the public.

You should come down to the Utah Expo if you want to see theivery of public tags.
Over 500 of our General Draw tags are stolen from us and put in a special draw.

elks96 · Sep 25, 2024

MrShane said:
You should come down to the Utah Expo if you want to see theivery of public tags.
Over 500 of our General Draw tags are stolen from us and put in a special draw.

No thanks. I am pissed enough about 80

mulecreek · Sep 26, 2024

Chesterwyo said:
The one shot is becoming like Bohemian Grove.

Wonder which team Alex Jones was on this year.

bullitt19 · Sep 26, 2024

Back in the 70's my Dad and ai won the 1 shot hunt with 2 1 shots in less than 5 minutes per the observers. We were from Knasas City and only got 1 bid on our Team!
Joe Highsmith the Mayor of Shoshoni was the winning bidder.

Bookhead · Sep 26, 2024

bullitt19 said:
Back in the 70's my Dad and ai won the 1 shot hunt with 2 1 shots in less than 5 minutes per the observers. We were from Knasas City and only got 1 bid on our Team!
Joe Highsmith the Mayor of Shoshoni was the winning bidder.

I guess I don't get what the big deal about shooting antelope quick is. I could shoot about 30 in 15 minutes in some spots. To me that's not what hunting is about

DESKPOP · Sep 26, 2024

elks96 said:
We never even crossed paths with one… would
You agree the tide has shifted locally on the hunt?

Yes, there was not nearly as many people as there were a few years ago in the Lander Bar the night before the hunt. Granted I am not in Lander every year for the opener but I have been there a few out of the last 10 years.

Ran into this guy in unit 66 a few years ago, nice guy, I would imagine he is there every year.

Ken Chlouber | Lake County Sports Hall of Fame

elks96 · Sep 26, 2024

DESKPOP said:
Yes, there was not nearly as many people as there were a few years ago in the Lander Bar the night before the hunt. Granted I am not in Lander every year for the opener but I have been there a few out of the last 10 years.

Ran into this guy in unit 66 a few years ago, nice guy, I would imagine he is there every year.

Ken Chlouber | Lake County Sports Hall of Fame

I am willing to bet there are a lot of good guys. Infact the one person I know the best is someone I highly respect and as a kid looked up to as a mentor. I don’t blame him for attending, especially when they promoted the hunt. I sent him a message the week before the hunt and encouraged him to reconsider or at least think about what the hunt means to resident hunters. I have done that with a couple people I have crossed paths with, including the former CPW commissioner. I am curious if that is the reason why they did not advertise the teams ahead of time?

I don’t blame the hunters, I blame the hunt in this case.

Also as many have mentioned not much of hunt if all you are trying to do is kill the first lope you can as fast as you can.

jm77 · Sep 27, 2024

I imagine, over the decades that many of the participants have been steered to the "hunt" (I use that term loosely here) with talk of prestige and grandeur. I'm sure that what happened with Rinella where a vet and Gov Matt Mead got him there.

bullitt19 said:
Back in the 70's my Dad and ai won the 1 shot hunt with 2 1 shots in less than 5 minutes per the observers. We were from Knasas City and only got 1 bid on our Team!
Joe Highsmith the Mayor of Shoshoni was the winning bidder.

Did you wear the Headdress while the losers dressed like native women? Did the stag events not clue you on to the nature of the One Shot?

Bottom line, the tags need to be limited to teams only if the damn thing isn't tossed in the trash completely.

Iowan · Sep 27, 2024

bullitt19 said:
Back in the 70's my Dad and ai won the 1 shot hunt with 2 1 shots in less than 5 minutes per the observers. We were from Knasas City and only got 1 bid on our Team!
Joe Highsmith the Mayor of Shoshoni was the winning bidder.