I agree with you. I never said I thought pressure was better. Although I did say it puts game right where I want them. Which means I'm a pocket hunter, I hunt pockets that hold game because they're isolated from the pressure.
Coveyleader, perhaps you weren't calling bs on my gratitude that others hunt the way they do. And if so, why would you find it to be bs when someone says "pressure is never negative "?? It's not, pressure will be positive for someone. I just didn't add the caveat that it will always work for you??
I like a good challenge...OTC sales at Wal-Mart for elk in the units I hunt in CO are the highest in the entire state. Stepping out on a limb, the San Juan National Forest is the hardest hunted stretch of public land in the intermountain west. I'm not throwing any BS out, the way others hunt...
There's a lot of good that come with hunting OTC. As much as I'd like to have the woods to myself; I've become grateful that there are road hunters, 1/2 mile hunters, and those that skirt the rim. In fact all those hunters drive the quarry right where I want them. Pressure is never negative, it...
So glad you posted this!! I posted this one liner on another forum and got chastised to no end, "Hunt up, pack down".
I've found so many great day hunts by climbing the crap out of slopes that can't be easily accessed from above, or are too treacherous to descend but awesome in the middle 1/3...