Recent content by OldBallCoach

I agree with a lot of the original post but Andrew said a real discussion and some of the trolls get on here and start trying to stoke the Resident vs Non Res debate. Even one using Wyoming with it’s 580,000 resident population size as example for Idaho. Idaho has about 4 times WY population and...

That’s the fact that everyone keeps skipping over! People always give hunters too much credit for declining numbers and the hunting not being what it once was. There hasn’t even been close to 1500 tags given for the Henries total in the last 6 years. The main reason the # of high end bucks are...

100% agree with Blank! People give hunters too much credit for declining animal numbers. Hunter harvest is such a small percentage of the total annual loss. When the topic of declining game populations are discussed on these forums lots of guys like to go to saying it’s F&G giving out too many...

Yeah exactly! Everyone tries to blame not drawing a tag on “point creep”. Well I haven’t drawn a controlled deer tag in Idaho since 1999 (except for an unlimited archery tag as 2nd choice). And the unit I apply for every year has averaged about 1 in 5 to 1 in 6 odds over those 21 years...

Absolutely not. Too many folks have been buying points for years and it wouldn’t be right to change it now. Sorry for the guys who just can’t seem to figure out the point systems and seem to think random is the only “fair” system. I’ve seen just how fair random is in Idaho for the last 21 years...

Yeah my dad shot a doe believing it was a buck north of Grand Junction in the late 80?s early 90?s. She had a long spike (12-14?) in velvet, in early November. Also talked to a game warden about it and obviously it's legal because it was antlered.

Hkm thanks I got your pm. I'll hit you up if I have any more questions and feel free to do the same.

There are some folks on here who will tell you how bad the deer are doing in 081 but most areas in the west are not what they used to be for mule deer. In my opinion that's still a good tag. I'll PM you with some specific areas I'd check out if I were you.