if you aren’t already, definitely consider adding zebra. When we went, it was by far the most enjoyable animal over there for me to hunt. Those old stallions are really smart and cagey. They were just as sneaky and smart as any North American game I’ve hunted so far. They’re just in high...
Got lucky and drew a lope buck tag where I live with no points. Not great numbers and not much for size most years but I’m pumped as it’ll be a great time to take the kids along and get some fun stalks in. Our 14 year old drew a lope b tag here too, so it’ll be a fun year and we won’t have to...
I think the vast majority of residents on this site are in favor of paying more as residents and adjusting management for benefit of the species. But this isn’t the typical demographic. Most don’t want to change license prices or management. Hell, I think a surprising % would be in favor of...
I really started noticing things get bad in ne mt about 3 years ago. We have very little public or accessible deer land to begin with, and there were days a 1,000sh acre bma would have different license plates at almost every approach. Lol. I actually witnessed this. Single sections of state...
I have no beef with nr and would like to be a nr hunter in most western states at some point. Although overall nr tag numbers are definitely too high, my biggest heartburn with the situation is that it’s completely unregulated where they hunt. If 5 of 7 regions are doing poorly, tags numbers are...
I think to most influencers, the attention they get and money is way more important than the actual hunting/fishing experience. I know some that try to be influencers, and they’re not bad guys, but they’re mostly going from spot to spot without any concern of burning spots as they have no...
regardless of what the cause was, this is such a terrible thing. The only positive is that it sounds like there was potential for serious loss of lives, and it looks like that was avoided. Thoughts and prayers to those affected.
You’ll love the caliber. My 10 year old daughter was nervous to shoot the 243 youth model the other day. She watched my wife shoot my suppressed 6.5 prc yesterday and we convinced her to try it. She shot it twice putting two rounds an inch apart next to the bullseye. She’s a tiny 10 year old and...
Sometimes the word sniveling gets confused with people actually caring about the resource and concerned about the future. I think the majority complaining here would fall into that category.
I apologize if I’m doing poor job explaining this. It’s my first day back to work after 5 days off, so I’m struggling. Lol. This is only my opinion and maybe some here would share it too. If there are x number bucks before hunting season starts(let’s stick with 500 as you mentioned): example...
I think that’s what he and I are both referring to. Lost in translation a little I guess. To add to what you said, you start with 500 bucks and don’t kill any, the only added bucks to the population next year are the new fawns. But if you kill 300 of those bucks, now you have 200 bucks plus the...
I understand that. Just saying that if we kill less of them this year, there might be more of them next year, and some of them might be a little older along with a slightly better buck-doe ratio. I’m aware that does get pregnant and have the fawns and that not that many bucks are absolutely...
It’s interesting how the doe tags are significantly reduced in several regions due to the decline in populations but no changes whatsoever for antlered deer. I guess they aren’t affected by drought, other weather, predators, etc.