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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...

I don't see any way around this going to a controlled hunt.

You're a little confused, so I'd suggest starting over. In Idaho the "Controlled hunts" = draw/lottery/LE whatever you want to call it. You must purchase a hunting license to apply for these hunts and the application period is from May 1 to June 5. A controlled hunt tag is only usable in the...

I have one. I'm a very good friend of the inventor/creator of the nightguard. He sent me one a couple seasons ago to try out and give him feedback as well as help spread the word on it. We started bear hunting together and after we had our first taste of bear hunting success he was hooked and...

This link answers the question: https://idfg.idaho.gov/question/can-person-who-drew-antlered-deer-hunt-second-application-period-2009-apply-antlered-deer The waiting period for drawing an antlered controlled hunt does NOT apply to you if you draw in the 2nd drawing. It only applies to those...

Select which part of the state you want to hunt in based on the way you want to hunt and the type of terrain. Are you going to run a bait site or try spot and stalk. Both methods work throughout the state but terrain and more patchy vegetation make central Idaho a better bet for spot and...

Nobody has to buy these politicians off for them to do this. They are wealthy owners of large amounts of land and they hate that they have to enter a drawing with everyone else when others states cater to the rich and give them tags that they can use but most often sell. It is just a bunch of...

BPKhunter is exactly right. Earlier this year fish and game withdrew their increased fee request rather than allow a few legislators (who held it ransom and tried to blackmail IDFG)to force a points system and auction tags on the hunters in Idaho. IDFG is doing this survey in order to...

That account sounds fishy. Whoever wrote is saying that as the rancher was about to kill the bull one of the officers grabbed him and shot him completely unprovoked? And then the other officer shot the rancher 4 times in the chest while the first officer was still presumably close enough to...

I tried the remington caps and had way too many misfires, I now use the standard CCI caps and rarely have a problem. As has been mentioned you can fire a couple caps prior to loading to make sure that the path through the nipple to the powder is clear and for a time I did the same. Now, I...

Page 98 of current Idaho regs: "Weapon Restrictions Rifle and Shotgun In any hunt, including any-weapon seasons, it is unlawful to pursue or kill big game animals: ? With any electronic device attached to, or incorporated on, the firearm or scope; except scopes containing battery powered or...

I don't think anyone would blame you for not wanting to give any clues about where you shot this buck, except that you already have. Clues: Velvet buck Rifle in the background of kill photo August post to forum. There are only 8 mule deer hunts open in the entire state during late August...

Tri-state has a point and we see it all the time. Scenario: Someone posts a picture of a buck and asks "Would you shoot this deer?" The response almost always include several asking if it will be archery or firearm. Scenario: Someone posts a picture of a deer they killed and the responses...

Since the IDFG does not mail deer, elk or antelope tags to succesful applicants you can bet that your friend is confused. I agree with the comment above, he got a reciept in the mail for his application.

Yes some of the whitetail hunts end on Nov 3. No you are not reading the regs right. If you have a "Regular Deer" tag then the season for which you can kill a whitetail in units 8 and 8A ends on Nov 3. If you purchase a "Whitetail Deer" tag the season ends on Dec 1.

wolfhunter, I'm not defending wolves, I'm trying to encourage hunters to be respectful in their arguements so that we present an inteligent position in favor of wolf hunting, rather than an ignorant and frenzied position. I have carried multiple wolf tags every year it has been legal. I will...

I checked the baitsite on Saturday, no luck yet. But I haven't seen any tracks or scat anywhere either. I've heard of only one hound hunter who has chased any bears so far. If nothing hits this week I may start to worry. As it is I'm building up a good stockpile of bait at the site.

I have to agree with Zeke, Mtmuley and BuzzH. All the chest thumping bravado of the SSS crowd will not help one bit. We will not and should not shoot our way or poison our way out of this problem. Anyone who thinks that we may eventually be successful at killing off these wolves is fooling...

I placed my bait on April 17th and returned on the 24th to check on it. So far no bears, but my first hit last year didn't come until the 29th so no cause to worry yet. The only negative is that I did find out that 2 other hunters are set up in the same drainage as me.

On Saturday I drove out to my bait site with the intention of hanging my tree stand and/or hopefully finding a location across the draw from which I could sit on the ground and have a shot of 200 yards or less. There were several places from which I could have an across-draw shot but it would...

I still have 2 days until opening day so to keep this going I'll talk about another aspect to consider when hunting bears over bait, scent. Of course you want scent from your bait to spread and attract bears but when it comes to human scent there are basically two schools of thought. The first...

Today I'm talking about the types of bait I've used along with the pros and cons as I experienced them. When I pack bait into my site I typically carry (4) 5 gallon buckets full of food. Two are strapped to an external frame backpack with a trash bag full of popcorn and I carry the other two in...

Since I already have my location selected I'll go over what I look for in a site and how I ended up with my current location. Idaho allows each hunter to operate 3 bait sites but the most I have ever done is 2. Logistically it is time consuming to operate even one site. An important...