Biologist wants to increase doe harvest in region 3 units - Help!

[ismith]

90% of this place is Feds.

 

[MTMOOSE]

I will come clean. MTMOOSE is one of my best friends. I actually just got back from his daughters birthday. I created the user name and wrote those posts directed towards him to get his blood pressure raised. And it worked. I knew each of those posts was going to strike a nerve for him. I am sorry if i took it too far. I will drop it.

And this reminds me why I don’t have social media and why I like monitoring the discussions on hunt talk, but not posting myself

 

[Big Fin]

90% of this place is Feds.

Your post got me interested, so I did a search this morning of 2025 activity.

Probably less than 1%, when sorting by IPs. In fact, it took many pages of scrolling through the results to find an IP related to a Federal agency for visits in 2025. And that was earlier this month, from DC.

The largest lurker IP so far this year is "State of Montana - Helena." With many different derivatives of that. Lurkers being non-registered users.

I can sort IPs by registered user, by lurkers, match IPs to see if there are multiple registrations. I can sort them by VPN, by geo location, by (insert here). Actually to the point of feeling a bit greasy if I dig too far.

I've had criminal investigators request me to do activity searches based on IP, email, user name. I've had to ask my attorneys for legal advice to guide me as to what I can release or not release. Summary of that experience - if you have any criminal activity or are the subject of an investigation, you are a fool to be participating in online discussions in any manner or to have any social media accounts.

Even at a cost of now over $1,000 per month for software and the platform, we still have a ton of crap that gets through. The least of my worries is if a .gov IP address shows up.

 

[SwaggyD]

Actually to the point of feeling a bit greasy

This made me lol

 

[SwaggyD]

Your post got me interested, so I did a search this morning of 2025 activity.

Probably less than 1%, when sorting by IPs. In fact, it took many pages of scrolling through the results to find an IP related to a Federal agency for visits in 2025. And that was earlier this month, from DC.

The largest lurker IP so far this year is "State of Montana - Helena." With many different derivatives of that. Lurkers being non-registered users.

I can sort IPs by registered user, by lurkers, match IPs to see if there are multiple registrations. I can sort them by VPN, by geo location, by (insert here). Actually to the point of feeling a bit greasy if I dig too far.

I've had criminal investigators request me to do activity searches based on IP, email, user name. I've had to ask my attorneys for legal advice to guide me as to what I can release or not release. Summary of that experience - if you have any criminal activity or are the subject of an investigation, you are a fool to be participating in online discussions in any manner or to have any social media accounts.

Even at a cost of now over $1,000 per month for software and the platform, we still have a ton of crap that gets through. The least of my worries is if a .gov IP address shows up.

So you could potentially see where we are hunting if we’re on hunt talk while in the field?

 

[Big Fin]

So you could potentially see where we are hunting if we’re on hunt talk while in the field?

I don't think that would be possible when using mobile. On our end, it just comes up as "Verizon" or "ATT." It doesn't give geo location as we get with a VPN or static IP.

 

[mtmuley]

I don't think that would be possible when using mobile. On our end, it just comes up as "Verizon" or "ATT." It doesn't give geo location as we get with a VPN or static IP.

And all these years I thought you were snagging spots that way. mtmuley

 

[cgasner1]

And all these years I thought you were snagging spots that way. mtmuley

It’s on the internet must be true

 

[SwaggyD]

I don't think that would be possible when using mobile. On our end, it just comes up as "Verizon" or "ATT." It doesn't give geo location as we get with a VPN or static IP.

This season for me my location would just say “back deck hoping to get a dome shot on a yard deer”

 

[mtmuley]

It’s on the internet must be true

Well if it is I am digging in to Greenhorns stuff. mtmuley

 

[FAIR CHASE]

So you could potentially see where we are hunting if we’re on hunt talk while in the field?

Committing a murder will divulge that info.

 

[SwaggyD]

Committing a murder will divulge that info.

I’m clear there.