Welcome to HT, great introduction. Do you have any pics or stories to share?The entire hunting atmosphere in the west is mind boggling. We are seeing anti out of state movements for all species across all spectrums. The states don’t want average working class men and women hunting in their states. That is clear and evident despite what anyone says. The idea is to cater to the ones with the deepest pockets and those willing to hire outfitters. Mostly it’s just turned into a money making scheme. I’m just not sure that is the best idea when hunting culture in general is dying. We lose more and more hunters every year. Where things are headed is pay to play for everything.
Not saying it should be NO limits on none residents at all either. It should be. The points systems and price of tags though basically feel like extortion. Not actual extortion of course, nobody is breaking any legs. Emotional extortion though I’d say yes.
The threat is basically Pay us now for maybe over a decade or more or watch your bucket list dream go down the toilet.
I would have to imagine it has already backfired on them In a lot of ways. When you are young you have dreams but no money. You get older you get a little money but now your 40 thinking, my goodness I’ll be 60 before I draw this tag! Not to mention then maybe give some outfitter an additional 6-20k. Or just DIY it with little to no actual elk hunting experience. Not everyone is like me where I’ll come out and just go to go with no tag. At the end you are wrapped in maybe up to 50k to MAYBE kill ONE elk
Let me tell you guys something. I think something that is lost on a ton of western guys. You can kill a BOAT LOAD( not a exaggeration.) of whitetails on DIY hunts in eastern states for what it would cost to kill one elk in Wyoming and many other western states.No draws, no points, Just buy a license (which is usually like 100 bucks.) have a set limit of deer you can kill, in many cases thats all but infinite in antlerless deer. The value for a HUNTER, not a ego antler obsessed maniac, a man or women who just loves the outdoors and loves to hunt period, is NOT there in the west. You may not get the bluffs and vistas of the west but you are hunting a very abundant species at a reasonable price. I expect to see the value of whitetails in the east just continue to climb and western states just to continue to diminish. Not that one is better then the other but from a purely financial standpoint.
We visit my wife’s family every year in the summer in Wyoming. I fish, I hike all over anywhere I want to go and it cost me what the fishing license cost and I LOVE Wyoming. It’s becoming a second home and it’s talk of relocating eventually. So, it’s not a bash on the state at all. Just a observation as a average blue collar solid middle class middle aged guy who has done basically EVERYTHING in the outdoors except for western hunting and offshore fishing.
Is chasing Wyoming permits worth it?
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@Trike23. Just a useful tidbit, you CAN change your user name here. May I suggest something more descriptive?
“The average blue collar solid middle class middle aged guy who has done basically EVERYTHING in the outdoors except for western hunting and offshore fishing.”
“The average blue collar solid middle class middle aged guy who has done basically EVERYTHING in the outdoors except for western hunting and offshore fishing.”
nah I’m generous. I’ll give him a hundred. Then I’ll slap him on the rear end and tell him you sent me.
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@dike23, did you really join to promote eastern doe hunting?
Read what was actually posted in the first post. The rest it’s just stirring the pot clearly that’s what most people come on here for. I’m not promoting anything. It’s called a conversation. I didn’t mean to hurt anybody’s fragile egos I didn’t draw first blood though and I love me a roll in the dirt.
Man your the sensitive type ain’t ya?
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I hope this movement gets some serious momentum behind it
Trike has been here before I bet. mtmuleyI hope this movement gets some serious momentum behind it
So do I! We actually agree on that. Something that actually helps everyone and diminishes the pressure on public land and resident hunters. Then puts more tags in peoples pockets?! Residents and non residents alike?! Wow, what a crazy concept right? Could you imagine if people just understood it’s more hunting in the world then just elk!? Especially new hunters who think elk is the only thing to hunt cause Rogan told them so. Omg. Like, maybe elk hunting isn’t the closest thing to standing next to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ? Like the hunting industry is telling everyone. Geesh wiz. That would be terrible.I hope this movement gets some serious momentum behind it
Yea your right. This is a steal and a hell of a good deal. I’ll take two. What the heck.
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Glad we can agree...My BIL kills about 1 elk every 10 years...Says a lot of the same chit LOL...
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Some people aren't meant to hunt Elk.
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It seems some would rather stick to 5% odds and complain about the system that, coincidently, also provides those 100% odds tags.
