Nope, I don't think is unfair. My point is that these ID residents claiming that other states are stingy on NR?s is pretty uneducated. Claiming that an AZ resident has no right to gripe about caps is not valid.
Although here they do cap NR?s on limited entry tags, there is NO cap on any OTC hunt. You want to come here and buy a bear tag, go for it. Lions, sure. Hunt deer in the rut, sure just swing by Wal Mart and grab a tag. In some units on those hunts NR?s makeup WAY more than 37% of the total.
My point is just this, that each hint balances opportunity differently. I know I am comparing different species, but it's part of the total picture of NR opportunity.
I do get a good laugh out of residents griping about how fast the NR tags sold out, saying it's ?out of control? like it matters to them somehow.
As far as selling out NR tags, it was not that long ago that ID was reducing prices on second tags to help sell them. This is the best economic year in history. Don?t count on that being sustainable.
I hate the tone so many Idahoans take with respect to NR?s. Many have this my ##### don't stink attitude like Jetbreath. When the facts are that if the residents had to support the full weight of conservation they would cry like a stuck pig. Residents there have some of the most affordable tags in the west, and that's only possible because of what the NR?s bring to the state. But if you show up with an out of state plate you get subjected to all sorts of BS. It's like half the dang state has little man syndrome. As a 4th generation born and bread Idahoan it's embarrassing.
Ok, rant over.