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I would reach out to the landowner and ask permission to drive through their property and tell them that you only are interested in hunting the public ground. I’ve been successful with that in the past.

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Not yet. I think we got them the third week of June last year.

I’d being willing to give that up as long as IDFG creates a dozen or so any weapon rut elk and a dozen or so rut deer hunts for the youth.

Thank you for the help.

I followed the instructions in the above link from Wapiti Bob but the only options I see are for Spring Bear? Nothing for the deer tag I applied for. Am I missing something?

It’s not “destroying” X6A. There will be some good mosaic burn pattern in some areas and some moonscape in other places. It is what is and it sucks for those that have the tag this year for sure.

Folks, IDFG is solely funded by hunters and fisherman. The legislature has very little say (yes I know they changed the trespassing laws) in hunting and fishing funding. Is it annoying we have to wait so long with such bad odds....yes.... But if this extra revenue helps keep politics out of...

And I have one of the 50 and cannot wait till Saturday ;-)

Hey Mallard, also, "special junior/mentor hunts": While they do have some opportunity I think they should have even more, especially for bull elk, rifle, rut...

Or....how about everyone has the same chance every year. No one is "entitled" to a controlled hunt. Not even once in their life. Hate to tell ya that life isn't fair.

You are right. Facts are facts and the fact is that point sucks. I bet you didn't guess Libertarian did ya?

We aren't going to points. Its been a fun discussion but its not happening....moving on.

There are only a hand full of states that matter for the presidential race in 2020. The rest are already decided. SC, PA, MN, MI, FL, CO, FL, OH, and maybe AZ.

It's been happening for at least two decades now. The odds are tougher every year. Still completely opposed to a point system as children that have not started hunting yet are at a disadvantage on day 1. That reason alone should be the end of any discussion of a point system in my opinion.

Yep. Some do but not all.

Also, I have a theory about how to make drawing odds more manageable for residents at least. Every unit in the state should have a rut rifle hunt (5 tags) for both deer and elk (if they don’t have one already). I would think this would spread out the applicant pool significantly. Am I missing...

I never said that I didn’t believe your conspiracy theory (I actually do but I think it is first time applicants not women and children). My child entered the draw for the first time this year and did not draw. On the contrary, I drew my first 44 deer tag yesterday!

My wife drew the second or third hardest to draw elk tag in the state her first year applying and then did it again on a 10% draw odds two years later. For some it happens, for others it doesn't and that is ok when there are plenty of OTC tags.

I drew one of the Challis Antelope tags twice in 4 years....why can't I draw elk tags with an 8% chance? ?

There is no need for a point system in Idaho. Everyone has the same chance every single year. The point systems in other states should be abolished and those folks should receive refunds depending on how many points they have accumulated. It is ridiculous.

sjhgraysage....AK started to fly the CL-415's first thing this morning too. I think it's safe to say he will be in AK for at least the next month.

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>I'm a 2L and see lots >folks from CA, WA up >here in the Salmon to >Challis area. Probably more NR >hunters than locals. >PB I was up there ten days ago Antelope hunting and I saw lots of Washington and California plates (presumably archery elk hunting).

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>Are they still there? We've been hunting out Forsyth for the last 10 years and have never heard of them. We have used other butchers in the area in the past but the last five years we have used Backwoods Wildgame Processing. They are the best in the area IMO.

After 8 years of applying finally drew 38!

Saw a good buck yesterday on the 48/44 border in full rut with a dozen does.

At least they told us thank you for our patience on their 5:01 update. Gonna be a looong weekend.

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Yep. The bedding area is about 600 yards away except for the day when a dozen cows/calfs decided to bed down right in front of the camera for 8 hours (that took up about 250 pictures!).Caught that same lone wolf a couple of different times.

From my trail cam last week. Check out the time stamps of the first two pics.

I rattle for mule deer when hunting in the rut and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

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