Non res tags have went on sale December 1 for a long time. It came down to a few things IMO; one being full on pimping of western hunting by companies and people, hunt research services overreacting to the unit limits placed a few years ago creating a panic buy, and the ease of returning and exchanging tags for something else.
But once it’s part of your identity, you will forsake all else to keep your identity. I’m skeptical that a recession would have much effect or that we will ever have another meaningful recession in my lifetime honestly. There is no appetite for responsibility in society anymore.
I disagree. Economics trump all. I know people that defined themselves by hunting elk in ID in the 80's. Big wall tents, horses and jeeps, bulls every year. But once it got hard, once you couldn't justify or hell just pay for the costs, once it wasn't fun, people bailed.
I hope your right
Do you think these hunters might actually be getting outfitter-allocated tags or landowner tags?
The amount of both that are given out each year would choke a horse.
No landowner tags for general season and private land only outfitters get no allocation as they technically aren’t an outfitter
The landowner tags I was thinking of were actually for controlled hunt areas in units bordering the Snake River. I recall recently seeing a photo of several good racks lined up along a barn in one of those areas.
I don’t think there is really anything in code that addresses these topics. I know of an outfitter a couple years ago that was advertising there allocated elk tags as for sale with no service of any type provided. I found it ridiculous especially because it’s a hard to draw tag and don’t like the idea that an outfitter is so blatantly making money off a public resource and really giving nothing back to it
I was one of them dude. Purely on the fact that Utah screws its residents over. Non-residents Utah hunters get the better end of the deal.
I’d be cool if that happens about the time I retire. I’d love to have a regular tag, whitetail tag, plus a and b elk tags about then
Why would you yell while out hunting? Get licenses and turn their asses in for illegal motorized travel and be on your way. I’m not surprised they would be pissed at someone yelling
I was just trying to make sure they knew the deer was there. Did you miss the part where they were on a closed road. They had to off road through sagebrush to even get to that old dozer line. They were 2/3 of a mile from the closest trail...
Where ive hunted you could always tell the nonresidents just by the fact they were the only ones buzzing around closed USFS roads on ATVs. All the locals knews the roads had been closed to motorized vehicles years ago and either walked in or didnt hunt.
