What keeps you from hunting OTC California?

[Hoghead]

Pig hunting sucks.
Bear hunting sucks.
Deer hunting sucks. Dont waste your time. In fact, more people from California should hunt out of state. There is no game here.

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[Fowl Play]

Yes… it’s all been buggered up. Rainbow shooting vests, funny bullets, lack of game, but the worst part is you HAVE to use nightforce scopes. $2000 minimum. Anything short of that and you’re insta-screwed if it so much as brushes against the special hard rocks out there.

 

[2-Stix]

I hunt it every year. Its hard hunting...hot & steep where I go at the bottom of A zone South. I shot a buck last year 225 yards off over a canyon...took 1.5 hours to get to it and it was 95 degrees in super dense manzanita, etc...hands and knees fun. A good warm up every year before I go out of state to Oregon to hunt where my family lives. We have some deer and lots of bears, and incredible fishing, dirt bike riding, etc....

CA gets hate because of the politics. Tossing the baby out with the bath water. We have 42m people, 22m vote, we have over 5m republicans fighting behind enemy lines. More republicans then the main West states (ID, WY, CO and MT) combined. 50% of the counties are republican...big cities ruin states and rural america. I am leaving in 15 years to WY and will be the best transplant they every had. Every summer for the last 30 we go and camp in WY for 3 weeks. I know that state like my own.

Heres is a map of the last election and what counties went what directions. I always find it unfortunate how cities ideas run the rural areas of the state.

Jackson in WY, Portland in OR, Boise in ID, Bosemen in MT...LA and SF in CA. Its a bummer.

 

[cmahoney]

Yes… it’s all been buggered up. Rainbow shooting vests, funny bullets, lack of game, but the worst part is you HAVE to use nightforce scopes. $2000 minimum. Anything short of that and you’re insta-screwed if it so much as brushes against the special hard rocks out there.

NF’s aren’t legal in CA because the word “Night” is nearly as scary as pistol grip on a rifle.


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[Webster912]

Too worried something about my gun might not be legal and I'll end up with a Felony on my record. Ca gun laws are crazy!

 

[Sierra Hunter]

Don’t forget that F&W even puts desert sheep at 12k ft to make it harder should you ever draw the tag!

 

[cmahoney]

Too worried something about my gun might not be legal and I'll end up with a Felony on my record. Ca gun laws are crazy!

You are mistaken Sir, please review the CA elected official logically explaining the dangers of “high power” “assault” “ghost” weapons.

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[MattB]

Don’t forget that F&W even puts desert sheep at 12k ft to make it harder should you ever draw the tag!

The OP should definitely add that to the poll, along with "never been to CA and never will, but will respond to the poll thread just to $#!+ on the state because it makes me feel better about myself".

 

[Rob5589]

Pig hunting sucks.
Bear hunting sucks.
Deer hunting sucks. Dont waste your time. In fact, more people from California should hunt out of state. There is no game here.

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Heck, a few more years of everyone moving to Idaho may make it better

 

[Idmtgoat]

Because its California

 

[amassi]

Too worried something about my gun might not be legal and I'll end up with a Felony on my record. Ca gun laws are crazy!

Comprehensive list of items you can’t bring into California for hunting
- suppressor
- end of list


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[WKR]

Comprehensive list of items you can’t bring into California for hunting
- suppressor
- end of list


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You forgot one thing
11 round magazines

 

[amassi]

You forgot one thing
11 round magazines

Those would be illegal everywhere I’ve hunted big game


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[digger]

I have access to nice piece of private we’ve hunted for 45 years.
For the last 32 years I have found a young person with no access and gotten them a black tail buck.100% success for all the kids.
We could ask them how California sucks

 

[87TT]

For the record, I was born and raised in California. My first hunting license cost $2 and deer tag was $4. It is a crying shame what it has become. So I stand by what I said, "it's still California".

 

[Trapline]

 

[Greenbelt]

Why is everyone bringing up hunting California so much on this forum?

 

[mighteywhitehunter]

 

[Rob5589]

Why is everyone bringing up hunting California so much on this forum?

Because it's a hunting forum and there is hunting in CA...?

 

[Deleted member 8-15-23]

Res. Here for 40 years. We all apply for all western states. I have a top whitetail property so that's my favorite hunt. But, dove great. Merced Co. Is #2 in the nation for duck harvest, I killed 77 last year. Great bear hunting. Turkey and hogs is great.Got my tule bull here, and this year drew the best mulie unit in the state for bow and yes, a desert sheep tag@13,000 feet. Always75 and sunny. Starting 8/19, I will be sheep and mulie hunting for 2 weeks at least. The trout and ocean fishing is great. If I was an nr, I would not bother with ca. But as a res. It's damm good if you put the time in. At a point where every state kicks out a tag for me. Then spend Nov. Killing 35 whitetails in wi. All good.