Recent content by missalot

Sorry, but I'm not willing to trade my opportunities for the possibility that someone who might hunt in the future will have an opportunity to draw a tag. The reality is that with the population growth folks will have little chance of drawing a tag without some sort of revamping of the system.

What I think is funny is that guys use the hardest to draw tags in the state when citing examples of point creep in other states but when they want an example of a tag you can actually draw, they cite doe tags.....clueless.

I suspect that women and kids (mostly kids) draw more tags simply due to odds. One man puts his wife and four kids in the draw which gives them 5 chances to draw to his 1. The tag transfer is another thing that causes unusual demand. a person can put all non-hunting relatives (licenses holders)...

One thing that I realize is how foolish it is to argue the same topic with the same clueless folks. However, I did read one reply that said "if you get away from the antlered rifle tags, your odds greatly increase". DUH!!!! We don't enter controlled hunts to hunt antlerless animals. We are...

Just to give folks some idea of how people think differently, I have a friend who lives in Sacramento who enjoys hunting. He was headed out to the middle of Montana to hunt on a property that a CA friend owned. He drove through eastern Oregon, along the Columbia, through C'dA, Missoula, Great...

Just like the northern Californians who want to create a new state, these folks all want to become part of something better. The truth is that if they created a new state, soon Boise and C'dA would become the population centers that controlled everything else. Of course, there is even mention of...

I think that in reality, it takes a lot of courage to move from an area that you are comfortable with and relocate to an area that is uncertain. Many folks wait until an area begins looking like the place they are leaving before they are comfortable pulling the plug and getting out, especially...

I lived in C'dA in 1989 before the boom hit. You could walk down the street and buy any of 500 homes for $20,000 with $500.00 down. They were small one or two bedroom homes and were on the market because the Chinese investor who owned them was getting out. Realtors talked of a "boom" but no one...

Because they know they can change that! Truly, I believe that many Californians feel that they can take their monopoly money from Ca and buy cheap in Idaho and watch their investment grow all over again as more Californians follow them.

Yes, most don't realize how great CA is but in reality the crowding isn't because every square inch is covered with homes. Certainly the cities are huge and choked off with traffic which makes day to day moving about impossible and on weekends, everyone migrates to the country to recreate with...

That logic is sound but the flaw is it doesn't work if you have to have any economy that will support your job. Three or four years ago, you could find a home in Grandview for forty to sixty k, now it's $140k. Take a look at Salmon home prices (believe me, I've looked at almost every town in...

I once asked someone who moved here from CA (who sold real estate) if they liked Idaho. Their reply was "I love it because this is where the money is"! It wasn't the beauty of the state nor the fact that it was uncrowded (We'll change that!), it was the fact that it was another place that could...

These threads always come down to statements like "Not all of these people are bad". Of course not but here is the deal. When places become over-crowded like CA, people learn that consideration for others has little merit because no one cares and it becomes "survival of the most aggressive"...

I have 20 bullets of Federal Red Box ammo in 30-06 caliber with 180gr. soft point Hi-shok bullet for sale and 20 bullets of Federal Red Box ammo in 30-06 caliber with 200gr. boat-tail soft point bullet for sale for $30.00 for both plus shipping from Boise, ID

Someone suggested that residents buy the non-resident tags at face value and burn them. based upon the fact that left over tags sell out to residents, I would suggest that if they gave the residents the first opportunity at non-resident tags, few non-residents would get the chance to hunt in Idaho.