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You trying to make me feel even more poor? $25 barely buys me McDonalds before my $1000 tag.Ha unless you are a BC resident. An elk tag costs me $25
You trying to make me feel even more poor? $25 barely buys me McDonalds before my $1000 tag.Ha unless you are a BC resident. An elk tag costs me $25
How did they know your name???????The whole state apparently. I wish he’d have been there to get hurt feeling when we packed out the bull. Love all them diehards that show up 10 minutes before light and are mad they’ve been beat.
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You folks are triggering some memories. Some of the most violent experiences have not been hunting but armed huckleberry pickers in August. Most have been out of staters with some real possessive problems. Add money to a resource and some really bad attitudes come to the front. The mexican mushroom pickers you find after a fire have always been nice (somewhat trashy) but nice.
Let's see the elk. I don't get to out there until Oct. So I have to live thru everyone elseLet’s say you park your entire life’s possessions at the end of the road. What portion of the area behind that road do you now own for elk season? Would one be accurate to say all of it?
If it was a circle, would you own 360 degrees or just 270 degrees. 1 mile? 5 miles?
If you’re on here, I’m sorry I walked through your camp, and got close to your donkeys, I mean “mules”. We weren’t hunting the same area, trust me. And that bull that bugled 150 times in an hour 500 yards from camp wanted to die, and no, he wasn’t too far away.
Blocking the road is so stupid. It's a public hunting area! LOL! There is one area in Colorado where someone has been putting up NO HUNTING and Private Property signs on public hunting to get hunters to stay out.
If I encounter someone else there first when walking into an area I agree. “Where are you going, I’ll go elsewhere.” Does that extended to someone parked on a forest service road too? If someone parks at the end of the road do they own the whole area for the whole 28 day season? What if it’s 5am and they’re still sleeping when you roll up? What if they don’t even hunt that day or skip a morning/evening?Interesting reading through all the posts here. For a different perspective, Idaho native, hunted for the last 30 years or so, and I'll say, right or wrong, that it seems like there has always been an unspoken code of conduct when hunting, and fishing for that matter that everyone has followed.
1- First guy to a spot gets it.
2- If you're not first, give a wide berth so you don't mess up someone else's hunt. Basically, go somewhere else.
That's been the norm and it's what most Idaho guys are used to. That's when there have been plenty of 'somewhere else' places to go and less hunters I guess. Anyway, that might help explain people trying to stake out spots. It's how I treat others camped like this. I go somewhere else. But I haven't hunted a lot of trailheads and mostly park on the side of a road and hike into a drainage for a few days.
It's only been the last few years that I've experienced people parking next to us and walking into where we're hunting messing things up. The idea of doing that to someone else makes me want to stay home. This helps me to understand that mentality. It's the world we live in apparently.
I sound more and more like an old curmudgeon talking about the good old days. Hell, I don't even live in Idaho anymore.
If I encounter someone else there first when walking into an area I agree. “Where are you going, I’ll go elsewhere.” Does that extended to someone parked on a forest service road too? If someone parks at the end of the road do they own the whole area for the whole 28 day season? What if it’s 5am and they’re still sleeping when you roll up? What if they don’t even hunt that day or skip a morning/evening?
Good for you guys. I'll bet they couldn't believe it when they rolled up.About 10 years ago my brother and I had an elk camp set up fairly high and decided to move lower due to some weather forecasted to come in. We had been hunting a trail that was at the end of an old road and on the way out one evening some fellas had set up a nice camp. It looked like they had stopped at Cabelas on the way in and literally bought everything they needed. Cots, sleeping bags, the wall tent. They were still pulling stuff out of the original boxes . I tried to chat with them and they weren’t real friendly. I asked them if they had seen the weather report, they just kinda sneered at us, so we left outta there.There were 4 guys and 4 boys. When we left my brother asked if I had seen a chainsaw and I didn’t. The weather stayed pretty calm for a couple of days and then started snowing one night. We decided to hit that trail again one morning because it was below the fog line. When we go to their camp, they obviously had left everything up there for the next weekend. Their tent was caved in with snow,Heavy, wet snow. We hunted that morning and came back out and stood their tent back up and cut a ton of wood for them. We never stopped back by there after we left. I hope they enjoyed their next trip up there.
UCS, you will like this one….If I encounter someone else there first when walking into an area I agree. “Where are you going, I’ll go elsewhere.”
Don’t worry, there was no bad luck!I just don’t get thinking because you staked out an area it’s now yours. Sorry about your luck jack, but public land is public land. I’m not going out of my way to roll right up on someone but I’m not yielding a whole area to someone either.
When we showed up the day before season some inconsiderate idiot had pitched his tent across the road to purposely block it from anyone accessing it.