Recent content by WVHUNTER

I have went through the plastic bins in my man cave and found all sorts of stuff I didn’t know I had. Knives, ammo, gloves and broadheads. It’s like Christmas. I finally had to buy a shelf to put my ammo on so I would know what I had.

Yes, 20 years $5,000 was a lot of money but I was still working then and I could have afforded it. I did a South Africa trip in 2005 and had $10,000 or more in it with airfare for me and the wife. Dall sheep hunt in 2010, $10,000, British Columbia moose in 2012, $10,000. But now my Social...

I’m a fan of oysters also. I can eat them fixed about any way, pan fried, breaded and deep fried, raw on the half shell, roasted in the shell or oysters Rockefeller. I can’t really get fresh oysters where I live so I always pig out when I go to the coast. Several years ago the oyster shacks...

I know, it’s just amazing the prices the tags are bringing. About 2011 I had an outfitter tell me he could get a tag for about $8,000. I didn’t do it but looking back I should have. I think about 2003-2004 time frame they were going for $5,000. I didn’t do that one either and regret it.

I’m a huge fan also, looks great.

Last year one of the groups that had a tag was trying to sell 500 tickets at $100 each and they sold 220. Another group was trying to sell 350 at $100 each and they sold 266. Since these are $50 tickets selling 400 of them might be a good estimate.

It’s for deer or elk or antelope. Not for all three. And yes, you can hunt any unit on ground you have permission to hunt on. But you do have to choose which unit and species you are going to hunt when you get the license. There will be a maximum of 2,000 tickets for this tag. But there isn’t...

Around here we produce a lot of hardwood lumber. We ship it to China and they make furniture with it and ship it back to us. Maybe someone can explain the economics of that to me.

And Jet Blue was trying to buy Spirit until Biden blocked it. Jet Blue and Spirit probably have less experienced pilots. But he worst flights are casino junket charter flights. Every time they land they hit so hard you think the land g gear is going to break off. I think the pilots are the...

I don’t think 21 points is going to get you a lot. It won’t get most of the tags in 2,10,201,40,61 or 851. Might get an archery or 4th season in 40. So what will it get you? Unit 76 might be an option, 49 or 20 late. Unit 76 and 49 are mostly horseback public land not private ranches but there...

Yeah, it looks that way. During the pandemic airlines gave early retirement to pilots, flight attendants and maintenance personnel. Now they don’t have any people or spare planes. Another story. In 2012 I was flying home from a British Columbia moose hunt. Last leg was Chicago to Charleston...

I January our family was flying from Charleston,WV to Aruba. Charleston to Chicago, Chicago to Aruba. Flight from Charleston was canceled a day ahead for weather they said which was a lie because all the other airlines flew. They wanted to put us on a flight two days later. Would’ve los two days...

My son flew Spirit from Pittsburgh to Las Vegas and they cancelled his return flight. The next flight hey they were going to put him on was three days later but he couldn’t do that because he had to get home for work. He had to pay a lot with a different airline for a one way ticket to get...

Of course the way the free hunt works is the outfitter has a couple of clients that want to go elk hunting but they only have two pp each. For a general tag they can do a party draw with the guy with 13 points and two guys with two points each and the average will let them all draw. So the...

West Virginia has been trying to establish an elk herd since 2016. Due to CWD there are very few places that you can get elk. Some of the transplanted elk died due to stress from being moved and some have died from brainworm, which is an issue in the East where elk share range with whitetails...