LAST EDITED ON Feb-12-11 AT 10:52PM (MST)[p] The whole problem lies with the fact that the residents can hunt general season mule deer for 41 days with a rifle, and another 15 days with a bow. This is great for hunter opportunity but due to hunt quality issues, trophy quality, and overall health of the mule deer species this is not sustainable. We are just being opportunited to death. Non Typical has twenty years of winter range video to prove a decrease in quality and watching the video from later years almost makes a guy cry to see what this state could be and used to be. The quality decrease is not even debatable after watching the winter range footage from years past and comparing it to this year. Buzz H is right in the fact that every unit in Wyo has quality deer. I killed a 188? buck in the high country last year. I just want the top end to be like it was twenty years ago. Maybe this is not an achievable goal but I know it can be better than were we are now.
I believe Buzz H is right in the fact that limited quota statewide in Wyoming makes no sense. Its like cutting off your head off to deal with a acne problem. Not to mention that if Region G and Region H went LE most of the permits would turn into landowner permits for these units, due to large amounts of private property in the bottoms, and the low country.
I'm going to post solution A on this thread and solution B on a different thread. I would like everyone to comment on the pros and cons of these two different plans. I don't want this to turn into a name calling, argumentative post, just good quality Pros and Cons of both plans, and simple ways to improve the plans without going to extreme. After all we have less resident hunters than Utah has in one region.
Solution A would be a standardized statewide opening day Oct 1st with a reasonable length season, say 14 days. This would be accompanied by the following stipulations.
-Limited quota early September rifle hunts for the hunt areas that make up Region G and H with liberal amounts of permits approximately 1500 for each unit. The season dates would be Sept 15-25 to allow 5 days for the deer to rest before general season opened. (If you drew this permit you could only hunt the archery for this area and the early season hunt. You would not be able to hunt the general opener) On Oct 1st these areas would open as general season deer units. The Region G and H units would then close on or around the 9th of October to ensure the resource was not being over utilized.
-This plan wouldn't affect whitetail areas in the northern and eastern portion of the state nor would this affect one?s ability to harvest a whitetail if they choose not to harvest a mule deer.
Constructive comments on Solution A are appreciated on this thread. See and comment on Solution B plan too.
I believe Buzz H is right in the fact that limited quota statewide in Wyoming makes no sense. Its like cutting off your head off to deal with a acne problem. Not to mention that if Region G and Region H went LE most of the permits would turn into landowner permits for these units, due to large amounts of private property in the bottoms, and the low country.
I'm going to post solution A on this thread and solution B on a different thread. I would like everyone to comment on the pros and cons of these two different plans. I don't want this to turn into a name calling, argumentative post, just good quality Pros and Cons of both plans, and simple ways to improve the plans without going to extreme. After all we have less resident hunters than Utah has in one region.
Solution A would be a standardized statewide opening day Oct 1st with a reasonable length season, say 14 days. This would be accompanied by the following stipulations.
-Limited quota early September rifle hunts for the hunt areas that make up Region G and H with liberal amounts of permits approximately 1500 for each unit. The season dates would be Sept 15-25 to allow 5 days for the deer to rest before general season opened. (If you drew this permit you could only hunt the archery for this area and the early season hunt. You would not be able to hunt the general opener) On Oct 1st these areas would open as general season deer units. The Region G and H units would then close on or around the 9th of October to ensure the resource was not being over utilized.
-This plan wouldn't affect whitetail areas in the northern and eastern portion of the state nor would this affect one?s ability to harvest a whitetail if they choose not to harvest a mule deer.
Constructive comments on Solution A are appreciated on this thread. See and comment on Solution B plan too.
