The success rate for cow elk was 35 percent for archery and crossbow hunters and 67 percent among hunters using a firearm. Eighty-one percent filled their tags and 70 percent of hunters utilizing archery and crossbow equipment successfully harvested a bull. Sixty-eight percent of hunters who were drawn and purchased their elk permit for the 2016-17 season filled their tags.īull elk hunters enjoyed the highest rate of success among drawn elk hunters last year. Kentucky residents alone submitted 46,365 applications. Last year, Kentucky Fish and Wildlife received almost 75,000 applications from more than 34,000 applicants. Youth permits are valid for use for either sex during all elk seasons.Īt least 90 percent of the available elk quota hunt permits go to Kentucky residents. The permit breakdown will be 100 bull archery and crossbow permits, 150 bull firearms permits, 160 cow archery and crossbow permits and 290 cow firearms permits. This year, Kentucky Fish and Wildlife will issue 700 general quota hunt permits and 10 youth permits. Applicants for the youth-only hunt can put in for the regular elk quota hunts as well but cannot be drawn for both in the same year.
Kentucky residents and those living out of state can apply for each of the four permit types - bull or cow firearms and bull or cow archery/crossbow - but can be drawn for one hunting permit only. "Our application and permit costs are low in comparison and our elk hunters enjoy some of the highest success rates in the country." "For the person who has always wanted to elk hunt but just couldn't afford to hunt out west, consider applying for a Kentucky elk quota hunt," said Gabe Jenkins, elk program coordinator for the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources. Applications must be submitted online at fw.ky.gov by midnight (Eastern time) April 30. Those interested in applying for 2017 should not delay. There are now more elk in Kentucky than any state east of the Rocky Mountains and each year the prospect of harvesting one compels tens of thousands of hunters to apply for Kentucky's quota elk hunts.
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The landmark restoration of a free roaming elk herd in Kentucky was off and running.įast forward to present day. KY Afield Outdoors: Elk quota hunt application deadlineįrankfort, KY - Twenty years ago this December, seven elk were released atop Potato Knob in Perry County in front of thousands of onlookers.
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