You Sun Valley elites are the San Francisco to California. You have your anecdote problems and want to blanket the entire state with more regulations. If you limit deer hunters down south you put pressure everywhere else, if you blanket the whole state with further restrictions you steal opportunity from everyone else for generations to come just because you want more/bigger bucks. You'll never get it back, EVER! Just go hunt, move around, get out of your comfort zone, adapt, because sitting on the couch waiting for 3 years to have a deer tag SUCKS.
I sure as hell hope all of you arent watching hunting social media and are following the hunt quietly movement. If you are watching kill shot videos, buying products from companies that use dead animals for advertising, supporting marketing tactics to the masses, watching MeatEater, etc you are part of one big side of the problem. Marketing works, and "backcountry" hunting is as trendy as a tight end dating a popstar right now.
I also hope you're out hunting bears, cats, and wolves on a regular basis.
All we need is better habitat and to throw a wrench in the spoke of development, somehow. Safe wildlife highway crossings, more game wardens to arrest poachers (we seem to always forget how much poaching goes on), continuing predator control which we are doing pretty good at currently. So start with putting your efforts there, not less hunting opportunities.
The restrictions I am all for are thermals, drones, two way communication, 1,000 yard snipers, etc. But these are just basic fair chase principles IMO. Mandatory harvest reporting isnt a bad idea if it would work.
