I really got on here to post once, regarding the OnX Hypocrisy. I find it being shut down, equally hypocritical. This thread equally strikes a nerve as the petition relates to a part of the state I have cherished for years, while simultaneously watched it get wrecked.
I find that most people on here don’t see it the way I do. I am beginning to feel more and more in line with the user
@HuntQuietly after not wanting to believe this was the case for years.
This petition is undoubtedly largely the result of poor hunter behavior. I have spent a good decade hunting in the aforementioned units. While reported hunter numbers have risen and fallen, there is undoubtedly a rise in piss poor hunter behavior.
I’ve had guys set up antelope blinds 20 yards from mine on the same waterhole- intending to hunt next to me.
With each year passing, there is more and more illegal and brazen OHV use. See trailcam photos of these dudes 10+ miles in where you’re not even supposed to ride a mountain bike. There are new ATV trails up the faces of mountains. The rules in 2/3 of the units in the petition are a joke when it comes to what is and isn’t allowed for motorized use. It is impossible to enforce.
In one of these units, in the “backcountry”, we started to have a group of guys breathing down our necks as they tries to move in on our campsite. They were literally setting up while we took down. This is the same group of guys who told us earlier in the season they would find a different part of the unit to hunt if we would be in there. Next time, I’m not going to be so polite.
After drawing a bull tag in one of these units (that I’ve put in for almost 10 years for) I went in with high hopes. I left after 24 hours to avoid an almost inevitable AVB like shitshow.
So the unreliable data shows hunter numbers have waxed and waned in these units, the debachary is at all time highs. I probably done with OTC mule deer hunting and feel that a favorite pastime has been robbed from me.
Our game department is doing everything they can to maximize license and tag sales but hasn’t increased the size of the CO force in over 30 years. Lifetime muledeer hunting gods *Cough*Robby Denning *Cough!* are getting warnings for shooting animals out of the window of their truck because they “got it mixed up with the rules for watercraft”
. I watch as all the window lickers on this forum say “you’re such a decent guy”, “I lick the ground you walk on” but can’t even see the BS for what it is.
Until we get some real enforcement out here, it’s time to spread hunters out. No more deer hunting August-December. I’m for the petition, and I’m for limiting the all out onslaught against deer and elk in the name of “conservation”.
