You western folks thought public land hunting was bad....

[roosiebull]

Wow. I don't care how early I woke up, if I saw that at the parking lot I'm going home.

I’m going somewhere else

I have just accepted that hunting lower biomass populations with more difficult access and more broad/vast habitat is a lot more enjoyable for me these days. I have no problem letting the masses fight over the easier and more obvious critters.

Sometimes you only need one of those factors to dodge crowds (like difficult access)

I saw the writing on the wall years ago and started changing my program as things got worse with people (both more hunters and lack of courtesy)

Fishing is the same, I don’t want to spend my time hanging out with people who are willing to ruin their own day to make sure you don’t get whatever it is you’re chasing, it takes the fun out of it, and those people are growing in numbers… adapting is important

 

[RockAndSage]

I’m going somewhere else

I have just accepted that hunting lower biomass populations with more difficult access and more broad/vast habitat is a lot more enjoyable for me these days. I have no problem letting the masses fight over the easier and more obvious critters.

Same, big time. I'm happy to give up some degree of opportunity for the peace of mind in not having other hunters around. Unless they're hunting with me, which is different.

 

[Benchleg Hunter]

I’m going somewhere else

Now there's the real move.
Lower animal and hunters numbers > The spot that has a few more animals but everyone and their brother knows about it.

 

[Choupique]

Its so bad in the southeast that if I don't have an invitation to hunt on private land somewhere (not even a leased blind or anything, 100% private only), I ain't going.