David Elliot first thought of shooting an elk to help feed family and friends back in January when the United States reported its first novel coronavirus case. Elliot, emergency manager at Holy Cross Hospital in Taos, New Mexico, had always wanted to go big game hunting and, with the pandemic spreading
TAOS, N.M. - David Elliot first thought of shooting an elk to help feed family and friends back in January when the United States reported its first novel coronavirus case.
"I understand some people might be driven by like antlers or some sort of glory. I don't want to do that," said Elliot, 37, who received a prized permit to shoot a female elk in an area of Taos County where herds of the animal graze in vast plains studded with extinct volcanoes. Firearm manufacturers have reported sales increases, and the FBI carried out 3.74 million background checks in March, a record for any month.
Evans, a middle school teacher, has seen a lot more people stalking the male birds known as"gobblers" this year. Officials in Washington issued 10 poaching charges between March 25 and April 26, more than three times the number handed out during the same period a year ago, the state's fish and wildlife department reported.Nina Stafford, 42, a building contractor from Fayetteville, Georgia, killed her first deer in January. She described the experience as"thrilling, exciting and remorseful for the deer.
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