Recent content by idelkslayer

I agree with those who have said that it is all about field care and not what the animals eat. A few years ago I killed a spike elk, spike whitetail, and forky mule deer in the same year. The mule deer came from sage country in southern Idaho, the whitetail came from the forested mountains...

If the first year you hunted Idaho was 2015 then you hit it at it's peak and now you've seen it at a valley. 2015 and 2016 were two of the best years in recent memory for hunting mule deer in Idaho. In fact the herd numbers were over objective by than time. According the state mule deer...

The OP is severely overreacting. First of all there currently is no doe hunting in unit 76. They closed the youth doe season after the 2016-2017 winter kill. The winter 2017-2018 was more mild but 2018-2019 had fawn survival on the low end of normal also. These are the population cycles that...

I am against point systems. They only work for units where the drawing odds are 20% or greater. Anything less then that and you get steady point creep either because there are too many applicants or too few tags to cycle through everyone. Some guys say that point systems are great and that...

Maybe if all the conservatives who left California over the last 35 years had stayed in California the politics might not be so lopsided there.

I think you can buy the license online and print a receipt but it is not valid for use in the field. Your actual license will be mailed to you. 3-day Small game license price is the same for youth and adult. I do not think it is allowed to hunt small game in idaho until a child is 8 yrs old...

With a small game hunting license you can hunt: "Upland & migratory game birds, turkey, cottontail, snowshoe hare, huntable furbearers & unprotected & predatory birds and animals. NOT valid for first 5 days of pheasant season." https://idfg.idaho.gov/licenses/fees-nonresident Rock Chucks...

I would wait to decide until you know which areas you plan to focus on for your hunt. Being in Soda Springs makes it easy to use the highways to access both the east and west sides of the bear river zone. But if you know that you will mostly hunt the east side then Montpelier would be best...

At the public meetings they were proposing cutting all general season youth antler-less hunts (at least in my region). They explained the criteria that is used to determine how much of the antler-less portion of the herd can be killed with no effect on the population. It is based on fawn and...

The way I see it by the time the temps get cold the elk have grown in their winter coat and built a nice layer of fat. All of that is meant to keep them warm through the winter. So even though it may be could outside the hide and fat will retain heat in the meat for a long time. In the warmer...

I used $500K just as an example amount and I should have said that so that my example wouldn't be misleading.

Here's the thing. 12 tags is the foot in the door to a complete overhaul of how tags are distributed in Idaho. Idaho sportsman have repeatedly voiced in public meetings and surveys the desire to maintain our current system of distribution. When one well connected man didn't like the system...

And that 1% can enter the drawings like the other 99%. That is how you treat everyone equally and with equal rights. That is how you recognize that the 1% are part of the public. You treat all the public the same. I don't hate anybody for being wealthy, except when it comes with a sense of...

And as members of the public the rich guys can get in on the same draws as everyone else. Seriously, just raise the tag and license fees in Idaho by $1 each and it will raise more money than 12 auction tags. Raise it by $5 each and it should completely kill the debate.

They won't do an unlimited hunt because they would have to sell more tags that the quota currently allows. After giving it more thought I have another idea. They could split the 24 day B-tag season into two 12 day seasons and increase the quota. Or even split it into three 8-day hunts...