Do western hunters long for eastern hunts

[Cant hit em]

I wanna try a whitetail hunt

 

[Coastiehunter2]

I would love to hunt Iowa, and would like to go back to my home state Wisconsin. I have hunted there in modern season but really want to go back with bow.

 

[WYLight]

Growing up in Alabama I loved whitetail, turkey, squirrel, etc. hunting but after joining the military and being stationed in Alaska and now Wyoming, I don’t really find Eastern hunting as exciting. Sitting in a tree stand or shooting house doesn’t really feel as humbling and satisfying as back country hunting when you harvest an animal. Don’t get me wrong I still enjoy eastern hunting but nothing is as thrilling as spot and stalk Alaska and Western hunting.

 

[Cockeye]

If south is New Mexico then yes.

 

[Poser]

I'm not giving up 4 months of deer season with unlimited tags for 30 days OTC.
I can take 2 weeks in the mountains and nearly hunt half the season.

So what do you guys do for the other 11 months besides shovel snow and cut wood?

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Snowboard/ski season is a solid 5 months, often 6 months or even longer if you get creative. Mtn bike season is 4-6 months.
If you small game hunt, waterfowl etc, hunting season can easily be 5-6 months long + scouting. Plenty to do and you get to do most of it without sweaty balls and mosquitoes

 

[Gobbler36]

I think eastern guys have it best right now, no media really pushing for big public land hunts and last time i did a whitetail hunt on public land back east i didn’t see a soul and it was gun season. If know where to look there are some awesome opportunities back east and liberal tag allocations makes filling the freezer with game a real possibility.

 

[Gobbler36]

I think the big thing is beauty is in the eye of the beholder and appreciating hunts for what they are and what you really get out of them.

Spending time chasing game is exciting and exhilarating which I wouldn’t trade but i also wouldn’t trade frost bit mornings sittting on stands watching the world come alive and the peace and serenity of the eastern woods with birds chirping, squirrels and being surprised by a whitetail that seemingly appears out of thin air.

Both have value and can teach lessons about the other

 

[Mountainist]

I Grew up on the east and have been in the west for over ten years. A New England moose hunt aside, i have little desire to hunt east of the Rockies.

 

[wytx]

I'm not giving up 4 months of deer season with unlimited tags for 30 days OTC.
I can take 2 weeks in the mountains and nearly hunt half the season.

So what do you guys do for the other 11 months besides shovel snow and cut wood?

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Seasons actually open up in mid August for archery antelope and go until Jan 31 for cow elk.
This year I have whitetail buck tag, general deer tag, doe deer, pronghorn buck , pronghorn doe, general elk, cow elk and bighorn sheep. That is 5 + months of hunting big game.
Then predator hunting and trapping starts.
For a break from winter we go hog hunting in March.

 

[Downeaster]

I do...like a rash

 

[Bowhunter827]

Im from the east so id say no way

 

[HPG2018]

No

 

[ncstewart]

I can see not hunting in the south or east if ya not a local but if ya like to fish then y’all missing out by not coming down.


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[camping1601]

Snowboard/ski season is a solid 5 months, often 6 months or even longer if you get creative. Mtn bike season is 4-6 months.
If you small game hunt, waterfowl etc, hunting season can easily be 5-6 months long + scouting. Plenty to do and you get to do most of it without sweaty balls and mosquitoes

Where in CO are there no mosquitoes? I thought they were your state bird.

 

[Oregon]

It isn’t about killing 12 deer a season for 5 months, or shooting a 700lb corn fed bear that lives in a phragmite swamp with surrounding terrain flat as a Swedes head. Nope, I lived where it was legal to kill every single deer that stepped out.
I hunt for a different purpose.
I did the tree stand thing for many years, miserable experience.
Terrain I’m in is what drives me.
I’ll take rimrock and sage over cypress and swamp every time.
With that said, the Midwest is a fun whitetail hunt. I’ve hunted 3 Midwest states.
SE USA, you couldn’t pay me to go back.

 

[16Bore]

The east sucks. Really sucks. Don’t even bother. No Public Lands. No animals. It’s horrible. Tree huggers everywhere.


Please, do yourself a favor....stay west of the Mississippi.

 

[Mike Islander]

I don't blame you boys for not longing to hunt here either. I dream of Western hunts in actual 3D terrain, and dirt bike rides in real mountains with spectacular views. Hunting, hiking, flying, all are less fun in my 2D world. I grew up in the gold country of Northern California and in New Mexico. Lived my whole adult life in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. It's a compromise. We do have some incredibly beautiful and sweet women here; and a lot of them hunt, surf, and ride off road. But I do miss 3D terrain.

 

[brsnow]

I grew up in IL bow hunting mid-80’s to late 90’s, my late teens and 20’s. Incredible time there, I currently would not trade an unsuccessful elk trip for a successful whitetail trip in IL. There is just something about the mountains and why I choose to live here. I will say whitetail tastes way better than mule deer.

 

[kiddogy]

nope . the easts got nuthin I need.

 

[Poser]

Where in CO are there no mosquitoes? I thought they were your state bird.

They aren’t bad in the SW. when they are, it’s a short season. My Thermacell, which got overtime duty in Tennessee, hasn’t been turned on since moving out here.