Nicely done. Always appreciate when people follow up after the hunt. How was it? I've heard the elk can sometimes flee to private and be hard to access in this area.
I don't really understand why tips are based on a percent basis.
Why do I tip significantly more for an expensive bottle of wine than for a bottle of beer?
Why do I tip more for my steak than my wife's salad?
If I go to a more expensive restaurant, and the waiter has a lot of tables, and I...
I think the biggest difference is that people don't see the scarcity with fish the way they do with big game. The feeling is everyone catching more fish doesn't hurt anyone, but everyone killing more elk leaves fewer elk for everyone else.
I have lived in 4 western states in the last 8 years, so I'd like to think I'm not just all talk haha
No I don't think it's too bad and that's why I still buy tags. But I also don't want tags to be so expensive that most think it isn't worth it... I've been blessed and would still buy tags at a...
So the idea is to get them to stop spending money on points? Or to try to extract more money from people that aren't actually taking anything form the resource?
My plan for these really hard to draw nonresident tags is to just move to the state at some point and get residency...
Why? You think prices should be so high that it is a deterrent? Non-resident hunting in Wyoming is not cheap...
Drivers are generally not responsible (legally speaking) for rocks thrown up from their tire. If the rock were to come off of their trailer or out of the bed or something, then they can.
This will just will make it less painful when you're driving in the woods this fall and get some branches...
I don't really follow this issue. How would this proposed raffle differ from the super tag? Seems like the higher price would just result in fewer raffle tickets sold.
Also seems like doing more of these raffles would be extremely susceptible to product cannibalization, therefore reducing the...
Was talking to a guy the other day that said that nonresident archery hunters in the state I grew up in was the reason for low deer numbers. Showed him that nonresident archery was only 2% of doe harvest and 4% of buck harvest. He still couldn't be convinced lol.
I agree with you on the pricing...
I actually do kind of wonder if all tags went to an auction, what would the price get down to? like a white tail deer in Iowa. How would it compare to current tag prices? Would it actually be more than that $630 a non resident has to currently spend?
Careful posting pictures of deer and the unit they were taken... I just added it to my list of places to apply for next year lol pretty decent draw odds/success rates
I have points for tags that I could've drawn a few years ago (not 15 javis but still...). I will use most all of them at some point (I'm in my 20s so have time lol), but have had a few years of limited availability due to college, a new job, a wedding, honey moon, drawing other tags etc... I...
Do you have the same problem with tags costing money at all? There are a lot of draw tags that cost >$1000. When you include required hunting licenses that are often >$100, points which can be another >$100 for a handful of species, and then multiply that by 10 states, there are a lot of guys...
There's a lot of cwd in western SD and a lot of cwd in wisconsin. I know there are high fence operations in eastern SD. Also a lot of dead deer traveling from those positive areas to those negative areas. Impossible to say if it's prevalent and to what degree in the eastern Dakotas but kind of...
Nice! 2 out of 7 people with 21+ points drew last year so could happen for sure.
You considering paying for access or only public land? I'd bet most elk in that unit are taken on private. Where in South Dakota are ya?
I only drew one bull elk tag in SD and my hunt was over about 15 minutes...
Success rates in 27A are like 60% I believe and many of those people aren't serious elk hunters. Great tag but very hard to draw. Throw in an application, but until you draw I wouldn't spend too many calories thinking about it..
Some are but not all. Others are if certain requirements are kept, such as maintenance, testing etc. But others are for set terms and then able to be cancelled by either party after the term expires. Not all of these easements are for electric lines (roads, pipelines, etc)