Irrelevant
Well-known member
They should be modern firearms, not bows. Which is thankfully consistent with many western state regulations.
What hunts are better today than 10 years ago?
- Thread starter Bambistew
- Start date
Dinkshooter
Well-known member
how many of those are ewe tags?
Dinkshooter
Well-known member
Starlings and Eurasian Collared Doves.
Irrelevant
Well-known member
Why do we have those? I genuinely can't understand that.
Dinkshooter
Well-known member
Somewhere along the line a biologist decide it was best to kill 2 sheep for the price of one for the benefit of the herd.
Sorry #jadded
TXJaeger
New member
- Joined
- Sep 18, 2019
- Messages
- 13
Very generalized response, but UT made a concerted decision to manage for quality and not opportunity. Since then there has been an improvement in herd health and mature animals harvested. It has come at the cost of opportunity, though. Ever decreasing habitat as well. So, not sure how you weigh that in terms of whether hunting has improved. Wolves encroaching from the North, and now from the East (thanks to CO). So, all that management probably goes down the tubes 5-10 years from now, anyhow.
npaden
Well-known member
100% private land.
There just weren’t any deer here. I’ve lived on the same piece of property for just over 20 years and when we first moved here I think we saw 1 deer in the first 5 years. Then we saw a couple the next few years, then a couple each year and now I’ve counted as many as two dozen on my property at once.
They have been slowly opening more and more counties in this area as they have been expanding their range both from the west and east. Some monster mule deer have been taken as they open things up. I think most counties have a deer season now but the deer population is still growing.
antlerradar
Well-known member
Eastern Montana elk. Of course twenty years ago there wasn't many elk and the tags are getting harder and harder to draw.
TXJaeger
New member
- Joined
- Sep 18, 2019
- Messages
- 13
That’s an encouraging report. I transplanted to Texas about 12 years ago. Love to hear things like this. Just wish there was a way to hunt these deer without buying property or leasing. Not complaining. It is what it is. I just haven’t been able to embrace Texas hunting. Guess I’m too stuck in my Western roots.
psycho
Well-known member
I cant wait until you can buy OTC horse tag!
JShane
Well-known member
Ducks. The golden years are now. I think that applies to geese also but they don't make it this far south so I can't speak to that.
Cheesehead
Well-known member
- Joined
- Dec 6, 2017
- Messages
- 1,043
Currently they’re UTC, which is free!
Jape
Well-known member
- Joined
- Sep 26, 2017
- Messages
- 1,688
I think there are some train wrecks, like the decline in Colorado elk numbers, but there are some success stories. Mule deer numbers in Utah are at a 20 year high, same with bears.
Gellar
Well-known member
I would argue in many cases that some areas may have been good before but now with social media and forums those secrets are less secrets so it appears an area that was poor or non existent 10-20 years ago is very popular now.
MO Betta
Well-known member
I can easily believe that. I haven't chased pheasants since my teenage years, but that was a lot of fun back then.
Another one I forgot is snow geese, they were overly plentiful and we spent a lot of time shooting them in our winter wheat fields 10-20 years ago but there seems to be even more of them now.
geetar
Well-known member
It was the late 90s before I even saw a whitetail deer in the area I grew up in. (Union County, NC ) and now they are everywhere. Most cities have urban areas. We had no hogs. Now feral hog hunting is legal and you can hunt at night with night vision and lights. Turkeys were pretty rare too but we have a lot of those now too.
np307
Well-known member
Not in the Southeast. Arkansas wasn't an anomaly, it was just first. Others are following along and the game commissions are way behind the science on optimal season timing and bag limits. Georgia is probably next, especially considering they actually DECREASED harvest numbers during this spring when everywhere else set record numbers. Alabama is next after that with liberal bag limits and such an early season. Hopefully they listen to the scientists like Mike Chamberlain and others who are calling for them to change.
NEWHunter
Well-known member
Regarding Wisconsin, deer, bear, turkey, and grouse are all worse than they were 10 years ago. We didn’t have an elk season 10 years ago and do now. But does that really count when 5 tags are available to 30,000 applicants? More of a lottery ticket than a hunt and they are already looking at cutting back the number of tags after a few years - which is likely overdue. The help of the RMEF is greatly appreciated on the reintroduction front.
Don’t hunt waterfowl so I can’t say. I am seeing more coyotes, foxes, and bobcats so I’d say that hunting is likely better here. And as others said, our wolf season is hopefully getting reinstated so that hunt will likely be better than it’s ever been for a few years.
Don’t hunt waterfowl so I can’t say. I am seeing more coyotes, foxes, and bobcats so I’d say that hunting is likely better here. And as others said, our wolf season is hopefully getting reinstated so that hunt will likely be better than it’s ever been for a few years.
tzone
Well-known member
I would say with the exception of grouse, everything I hunt is better than it was 10 years ago.
Duck-Slayer
Well-known member
Goose, Duck, coyote, black bears, wolfs lol, upland game has its ups and downs, mule deer where I grew up, used to be all whitetail now you see more mule deer than whitetail on our farm/ranch.
Matt
Matt
