As I sit here in an office, recovering from my shoulder surgery, itching to hop back into an excavator, I cant help but scroll back through my pictures of the fall. I often photo document everyday. I take pictures of the West Idaho sunrises with twinkling frost catching my eye on the stirrup...
What non-essential gear can you not live without? I mean the little extra somethin' in your pack that you realized that once you packed it, you can never hit the field without it.
Lots of great answers once a guy sorts out the lazy, no research driven responses.
My theories.
Habitat loss.
SxS/ATV popularity. (I am guilty of using my ATV to access deep trail heads)
I believe more hunters are diving deeper in and working harder, due to social media and influencers...
I've grown up hunting my whole life. Being raised around a beef ranching family in Idaho I always joke about how its ironic that i grew up eating more Elk and Mule Deer than i ever grew up on beef. As i graduated high school and ventured off on my own, hunting kind of fell on the back burner...
I'm sure this is an overly discussed topic here, but I am a noob.
What do you do to stay fit enough to hike the steep n' deep? I'm 28 years old and have worked out my whole life up until the last few years after i quit riding bucking horses. It's time to get back after it, as i start to notice...
CONCLUSIONS
Too many Californians moving in, get 'em the hell out.
The game is there, you're just a terrible hunter.
Death to non-residents?
Fish and Game are angels
Fish and Game just want to hurt our rights.
Fuggin' lock everything down. No hunting but for one species every 5 years...
Everyone and their dog (literally) are lion hunters in that area, you wont drive a block in town without seeing a tacoma or dakota with dog boxes in the bed.
Being born and raised in Idaho, I cut my teeth hunting in these mountains and hills, right outside our back door actually. I rarely remember not harvesting in the first few days of season. My example today is mule deer, I pulled these statistics from a general unit I grew up hunting and still...