Thanks for owning your past, it is a sign of maturity.
Congrats on having a baby! As for the logistics, you can definitely hunt this tag by yourself (or on your terms). I'd lean on grandparents (or the new aunts and uncles, or your wife's friends) to take some time to visit for a weekend or...
https://www.hunttalk.com/threads/alive-at-25-once-in-a-lifetime-sheep-tag.324291/
https://www.hunttalk.com/threads/im-20-years-old-whats-your-excuse.291211/
I knew I heard that phrase before.
Is this the first Rio on the thread?
I was 2nd to the parking spot this afternoon, and the other guys picked the direction I wanted to go. I wished them well and went the opposite way.
Don't conflate a once in a lifetime access situation for elk and oryx with a ban on your ability to hunt oryx or elk forever in your entire state.
I'm going to say it again, just because it seems "fair" to have OIL doesn't mean it's the best way to do things. No one has any evidence that draw...
So if it's all self serving, and making it OIL has an insignificant impact on draw odds, them what's best for the resource? Warm fuzzies are not science.
The argument is that repeat or dedicated sheep hunters do more than people who only hunt once or those who apply casually "because it would be cool to have that on the wall." Your personal situation may differ. @MtnElk and @Dsnow9 are the exceptions that come to mind, but I think you are giving...
Nothing personal to anyone, but these arguments are still ego-centric and not resource-centric. What if allowing people to draw twice or 5 times is actually better for the resource, and will put more sheep on the mountain?
If I felt like this were just dividing the pie differently, I wouldn't...
Advocacy requires interest. I'm saying you keep more people interested in doing the work, if you don't eliminate them from the beneficiary pool. Auction and raffle tags aren't available to enough people to matter in that equation. There are ~300 new ex-sheep hunters every year, there's a...