I’m considering moving the family out west from the east coast. The wife is supportive and wants to go. I’ve only hunted Wyoming Antelope and am hunting Idaho this fall. Interested in Elk and Deer. Just wondering which state/area offers the best resident hunting areas. Thanks in advance.
I would literally vote for allocation 80/20 in favor of NR if 30% of Colorado would move back to the Midwest.
Come to CO every year, ski/hike/hunt, but please don’t move here.
Anyone who moves anywhere and disregards the ethos of those places and doesn't try to first understand them is going to piss folks off.
Example, if what draws you to west is public land opportunities then don't move here and destroy that which brought you here.
Don't lease land, hunt public...
Dang now there are some funny answers on here. Well my take on it is I was born and raised in Great Falls. I spent 28 years with the Cascade County Sheriffs Office retiring in 2004. I had the chance to see some of the worst any community could produce and some of the best as well. Great Falls...
I don't think that we have to accommodate anything. None of us has a choice in this other than the one to accept it and move on or not accept it and become that strange guy in the corner always railing about something that he/she has no control over in the first place.
All the roads in the southern portion of Unit 49, county road 431, 433, 435 and 436 off and west of state hwy 285 are good truck roads not even 4 x 4 so one does not need a ATV... period. Dispersed camping everywhere. Good numbers of nocturnal elk move up and down the buffalo peaks everyday...
Honestly Bambistew, I agree with most of what you’ve said. I also try not to simplify things like mining=bad. In this particular case, I simply think the majority of Alaskan’s are so pro-resource development that we’ve cut ourselves a raw deal on this project. What’s stopping Amber Metals LLC...
So you think things should change? I kinda thought people were moving west for what they consider a better life or environment? You're right lets "accommodate" all the new comers fleeing a bad environment they at least partially helped create. I don't get it. Lets leave this place it sucks and...
Absolutely.
Here are a few:
1. Youth only deer seasons, added days.
2. Upland bird hunting days have expanded more than a month.
3. Saturday opener from traditional Sunday.
4. Youth antlerless elk and deer in nearly every unit in the state.
5. Expanded wolf permits
6. Elk B tags
7. Does anyone...
You bring up some good points. It is worth pointing out that you will have to work for whatever game you are pursuing if you come here. I don't know of any DIY western public land hunt that is a slam dunk. I don't want to imply it's going to be easy if you do come here and try to hunt blacktail...
I am a huge supporter or public land DIY. However, this has been going on for years. Too many states are overcharging NR and de-valuing NR contributions…IMO. Given the rest of the states out west…I believe Wyoming will change their structure. They have been very generous to NR but that is...
It is FAR more likely, as western states gain population, that non residents will lose some of their share of the elk pie than it is that the Feds step in and make everyone, everywhere on an equal footing, regarding the hunting of elk, bighorn, etc.
There are many hundreds of more pressing...
@Big Fin has been in Montana for over 30 years and he's not from Michigan either.
@mtnprst you're doing a great job making yourself look bad, keep it up
DDD is a pipe dream.
More likely (and ironically) NY and CA will keep driving out citizens who move to the mountain west while still voting Dem - thereby making the rural west Dem strongholds and Dems will stop whining about the EC and the Senate.
I’m posting this more to vent so thanks for allowing me the catharsis. A brief backstory is that I’m a medical professional who gave up my twenties living in major cities to achieve my degree and met my wife in the city during my last year of training. My goal was always to move to the mountain...
I grew up in New Jersey and at 12 I started hunting. As I got older I got more into it took more seriously and had dreams of hunting and moving out west. By big break was when my cousin and her husband moved to Cheyenne in December 2022. I visited in May 2013 to help out on a spring bear hunt...
I have left a job I love to move when my wife (now ex-wife) got a promotion. She was going to do it whether I went or not. I didn't want to be that far from my kids, so I went along with it. It lasted for a year before things went south. We were married one more year after that.
I did however...