California

[curtisloyd12]

Northern California. Looking for a potential hunting partner, used to hunt with my brother in law but he moved back to San Diego Don’t mind hunting alone but would like to have somebody to hunt with and takes it as serious as I do. Hunt b zones for the most part, going to Idaho fall 2023 and plan on going out of state every year for some sort of hunt if I can help it

 

[jzeblaz]

Where in Norcal are you? Archery or rifle? Front or backcountry?

 

[Lou (Louis)]

Just to be clear: you are looking for someone to go with you to your spots?

 

[curtisloyd12]

Where in Norcal are you? Archery or rifle? Front or backcountry?

Humboldt, primarily rifle but have recently got back into archery and definitely want to get more into backcountry stuff. Actually just bought a couple of baby pack goats a few days ago to help out in the future

Where in Norcal are you? Archery or rifle? Front or backcountry?

 

[JNDEER]

Northern California. Looking for a potential hunting partner, used to hunt with my brother in law but he moved back to San Diego Don’t mind hunting alone but would like to have somebody to hunt with and takes it as serious as I do. Hunt b zones for the most part, going to Idaho fall 2023 and plan on going out of state every year for some sort of hunt if I can help it

Welcome.

As with any job, a good resume goes a long ways. Lets see some horn porn!

 

[Banded_spooney]

Just to be clear: you are looking for someone to go with you to your spots?

I’d be down to go to your spots if they are better than mine. Should be able send onx pins via DM.

 

[JStol5]

You should send me some of your spots- and if I like them- I will send you one of mine

 

[Bubblehide]

You guys want a free lunch too?

 

[Banded_spooney]

 

[Banded_spooney]

You guys want a free lunch too?

 

[Banded_spooney]

You guys want a free lunch too?

But if you are offering, I’m probably down.

 

[Western_hunter87]

im in the bay area but usually archery hunt a zone and b zone. but i might draw x zone this year. i usually hunt solo cause all my friends are married or have kids. I usually hunt 100+ days a year. usually hunting near cloverdale for pigs and deer

 

[jzeblaz]

im in the bay area but usually archery hunt a zone and b zone. but i might draw x zone this year. i usually hunt solo cause all my friends are married or have kids. I usually hunt 100+ days a year. usually hunting near cloverdale for pigs and deer

I'm in Santa Rosa. Are you hunting Lake Sonoma at all? Didn't see much up that way this past season.

 

[Western_hunter87]

I'm in Santa Rosa. Are you hunting Lake Sonoma at all? Didn't see much up that way this past season.

i have hunted it in the past. got on pigs never killed one there. I have access to priv up by cloverdale thats where i kill all my pigs for down south near king city. i have some buddies down there i kill with. i havnt hunted much in b zone but i prefer d zones with more areas to glass.

 

[jzeblaz]

LS has been down in numbers and I haven't seen a hog there in awhile. I did come across a carcass and a lion not this past season, but the one before.

I've been going south to look for pigs too. Monterey Co. seems to have lot.

That's funny you say that because I've had the opposite experience in the B and D. They are massive zones, so I was able to glass large areas in B, where I found the area we were in with D very dense. Difficult to find bucks during season in either in my experience. Maybe this is the season for an X tag.

 

[Western_hunter87]

i have killed loads of pigs down in monterey county. there is lots for sure

 

[Lou (Louis)]

Shot a boar near King City.
Inedible.
He was a big boy, though

 

[eLightfoot]

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Lol bzone is probably the best deer hunting in the state and you can get a tag or two every year.

 

[Banded_spooney]

Lol bzone is probably the best deer hunting in the state and you can get a tag or two every year.

Hunting public in Bzone is like Colorado OTC elk. Similar success rates and in my experiences it’s the same guys that are successful every year. That is exponentially magnified by the fact that those guys are killing two bucks a year meaning even fewer ppl are successful than the dismal statistics would indicate.

If you are one of the lucky few that had a honey hole passed down from grandpappy in the alps or one of the even fewer guys that busted their ass and found a honey hole in the yollo bollys, good on you. But that doesn’t mean for a second B zone is a good hunt.

20% success while competing with 34,999 other hunters and roughly 45% of the bucks being taken are forkies. A good chunk of the other 55% are killed on private. I guess more tags for you cuz I’m not dealing with it anymore. Yuck

 

[eLightfoot]

Hunting public in Bzone is like Colorado OTC elk. Similar success rates and in my experiences it’s the same guys that are successful every year. That is exponentially magnified by the fact that those guys are killing two bucks a year meaning even fewer ppl are successful than the dismal statistics would indicate.

If you are one of the lucky few that had a honey hole passed down from grandpappy in the alps or one of the even fewer guys that busted their ass and found a honey hole in the yollo bollys, good on you. But that doesn’t mean for a second B zone is a good hunt.

20% success while competing with 34,999 other hunters and roughly 45% of the bucks being taken are forkies. A good chunk of the other 65% are killed on private. I guess more tags for you cuz I’m not dealing with it anymore. Yuck

A tip on bzone. Took me years to figure out. No matter how good it looks, the country you can see from a road sucks.