I like the proposal, but think it could go farther. If I were king for a day, I would change the 2 buck rule and transfer all the second tags to premium tags in the same units. For example, if there are 30,000 tags available in a zone then something like 20,000 would go to first come first...
Last year in ID the wilderness area in our unit was packed with people even 4 miles in from the truck. We hiked in to a spot we scouted only to find it covered with hunters, spent 3 days back there and didn't see an elk. Headed to the trucks day 3 and spent the next 4 days hunting from the...
I don't know much about muzzleloaders in general, but I do own a RUM and am pretty confident with it to 300 yards. I don't do anything special and just shoot the recommended 4 pucks of 777 and the Remington bullets and sabots. The three shot group below is 200 yards. I'm working on trying to...
During scouting missions I hike in water to use during my hunt. This has made the difference between filling a tag and going home more times than I can count.
Yes, I'm one of those guys, sign up for the forum during tag draw season. Anyway, I hope I can deliver and contribute to the forum and not be one of the guys that disappears and never gives anything back. I'm from California and have really started to amp up my hunting all throughout the west...