How to end NR Wyoming wilderness ban?

[tdhanses]

I just spent two weeks at my place in Wyo, and Im catching up on Rokslide threads and it took me a pot of coffee to read thru this thread... entertaining for sure.

Here's what I do know:

In Colorado, there are Moose Units are Resident Only.

NonRes can hunt deer, antelope, elk, small game, fish, hike and anything else in these units, just not hunt moose.

In these moose units there are BLM lands, State Lands, Federal Lands and even..... Wilderness Areas.

I have never heard of one complaint about this.
Not one. Ever.

So nonresidents can get a Moose tag but not hunt the area while residents with the same tag can?

Guess I don’t see how residents being the only tag holders as the same as having a valid tag but having to have a babysitter, probably why no one complains.

 

[tdhanses]

Again...
Isnt this thread about not allowing NonRes in to certain areas?

Yes, certain areas they have a valid tag for, they just have to find or pay a babysitter to hunt 100% of the area the valid tag covers, area the federal government owns.

 

[tdhanses]

I don't like the rule, but it doesn't bother me much. I would prefer Wyoming to be honest about it and admit that it is not a public safety issue. It is outfitter welfare and NR hunter crowding control. A reciprocity rule would be a good symbolic form of protest/retaliation. But I suspect that it would impact very few Wyomingites.

It would be no different than another state designating certain units as Resident Only, whether it contains wilderness or not. Now there's an idea.

One could argue it creates crowding more in non wilderness areas.

 

[cnelk]

So nonresidents can get a Moose tag but not hunt the area while residents with the same tag can?

Guess I don’t see how residents being the only tag holders as the same as having a valid tag but having to have a babysitter, probably why no one complains.

NonRes can’t even apply for a couple of the moose areas.

 

[tdhanses]

NonRes can’t even apply for a couple of the moose areas.

Yeah and that makes perfect sense, really WY should just redraw the lines and make the wilderness draw units for resident only, then this wouldn’t be an issue, other then for outfitters.

In CO same goes for sheep, but if you draw a sheep tag you get to hunt the entire unit open to the public.

 

[FAAFO]

They've been a non issue in WY for 40 years.

tell me you don’t spend any time archery hunting Wyoming without telling me you don’t spend any time archery hunting Wyoming.

 

[wapitibob]

tell me you don’t spend any time archery hunting Wyoming without telling me you don’t spend any time archery hunting Wyoming.

I hunt there almost every year. After talking to a crossbow hunter I realized he's nothing more than another guy with an archery tag. The ones upset that some other guy is trudging thru the WY woods with a crossbow is nothing but a bias.

Still waiting to see these issues posted up, they've been legal for over 40 years.

 

[wytx]

Crossbows should be for cripples and the infirm. That is something we as residents have to work on.

No issues with x bows, they have been around longer than compound bows.
I think I have seen one in the field.
Residents should have no issues with them.
I would push to keep them included, I shoot a longbow by the way.

 

[Wyo_hntr]

No issues with x bows, they have been around longer than compound bows.
I think I have seen one in the field.
Residents should have no issues with them.
I would push to keep them included, I shoot a longbow by the way.

That's cool. Definitely room for more than one opinion.