Raise your hand if you don't want your kids to have opportunity to hunt and appreciate other states of this great country.
I really don't think people understand the direction hunting will be going in the next 20 years after a good portion of hunters age out. Most of you can't get your kids...
Your fighting a scarcity mindset, alot of the folks that want all the tags can't afford to go out of states due to there own life decisions..so now they think there only option to success is that 5% of tags every one is bickering over
I get what your saying that non res are an easy group to point the finger at but this isn't true... there's a ton of segments that hunters are attempting to limit.. look at tech restrictions, motor vehicle restrictions, resident tag restrictions
You could take any given state, reduce non res...
Does anyone know exactly how many hunters in the woods is acceptable? Or what an acceptable success rate is ? How hard should it be ? With instagram making things so easy but with the reality of hunting being very hard, I think alot of people are just slapped in the face with failure alil harder...
I get the privilege of hunting all over in alot of different states, and when you get to the root of NR hate it is typically just jealousy.. I really am not sure how to fight that ... it's human nature. They are "stuck" hunting one state and I'm the prick that "lives the perceived dream".
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For a small example, i was involved in leasing roughly 100k acres of prime muledeer country with pretty awesome bucks and there would be typically only be 2ish 200 type bucks alive and that's highly managed to let those deer get old.. most potential 200s were high 180s 190s deer
There are times it would be fine and other times it won't be fine, on average your better to rely on game bags and bring a pack liner
If your air drying your meat full exposed, it needs to be cold enough to eliminate flies...unless you enjoy the addition protein of fly larvae
Contractor bags...
He's an awesome buck, that's probably his best angle showing off all his attributes.. excellent mass, character.. with out a side profile it would be hard to get too fancy with score...north of 160
I've literally put a leupold spot on elk with a swaro on the same elk and told the leupold lover to find the elk and they couldn't and then looked into the swaro and they just about pooped there pants
I would absolutely love a small reticle, for shooting and scoring but zero chance I can give...