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Boise is pretty liberal they’ll do great! Lines were crazy but between online purchases and everyone in my party buying a brick I got 5,000 large rifle magnum primers. Set for several years!!

Talked to a kid at the Seekins both at the western conservation expo in February. He said they set stock aside for the grand opening so the stores are full stocked when they open, he works for Scheels and they had him working with seekins. There’s a few items worth dealing with a crowd for.

Seeing the legislation get involved with draw is a sad situation. Anytime things go out side the game commission harm is done to the system. The fact that this has been so, poorly handled for multiple years the commission has no one to blame but, themselves on this issue. I think we are good on...

Probably a few more Whitetail in area, elk numbers are good. Mule deer probably holding their own? They stop letting kids have either sex mule deer during general hunt if I remember correctly. Lot of Bears in unit do a spring bear hunt to get a feel for it!

Bill just a few lines so F&G implementing could be anything! Poop show of last couple years needs to go, allowing residents like me to buy second deer and elk tags price locked after the leftover outfitter tags come up in August every year needs to go those nonresident tags should go to...

Seems like December 1st date gets more nonresident committed than a May/June draw. Draw might lead to more leftover tags. I personally picked up a second elk tag mid season in October. No need for resident draw yet! Management strategy is not in line with some of these suggestions.

Well I hike the Boise foothills a lot and range conditions are a factor. cheat grass and Skelton weed dominate a lot of areas that used to be sagebrush. This created the burn and burn again cycle that seems to have no end in sight. State and federal agencies don’t have the resources and $$ to...

The hair on both of them is too short!

Hopefully they can speed up the testing turnaround. It was a full month in December when we got results last fall. I had Colorado deer tested in 2005, 3 days to get results. deer and elk up salmon river are pretty spread out in that big country.

The gray shaded areas aren’t full of CWD!, the point I was making is there’s no way nose to nose contacted spread from Montana to Slate Creek. I agree there is so much that is unknown about how this spreads. Wisconsin kills more deer with cars than most western states do with guns. Eradicate in...

CWD is on WY and MT boarder, how does it show up in slate cr? Is there a swath of cwd across the the gospel hump, selway, and frank church? If it wasn’t a game farm, was it an infected carcass, a ranch illegally bring in a deer to add genetics to their property? I don’t see the natural...

game ranch‘s had nothing to do with that spread either just Mother Nature?

read the paper you quoted “emerging prion disease drives host selection in a wildlife population “ not Qualified to quote any of those findings either way! “Bayesian modeling “ if one is four time more likely to contract something, is the other 4x less likely? When something comes out I pay...

What study shows CWD is not always fatal?

I see a lot of valley county plates down there! They’re hauling wood back up the mountain. They love that red fir in McCall. That fire last summer probably burned some tamarack on there side of the mountain so, might not have as much competition this spring

Any idea how much snow and at what level snow line is by Ola? Hopefully I can get in for firewood next month

Looks like there’s some pretty big gaps, SE &SW corners are going to have winter kill panhandle still under on snow depth. Still time left but it doesn’t look like statewide mortality like 2017

Regulatory year instead of calendar year. So, I could go back in fall but then I wouldn’t be eligible in spring if I harvested, correct? You couldn’t shoot 4 in back to back years? I’m pretty savvy on western regs, Alaska has a lot things no one else has!

Not 100% sure but I think it’s only 2 per calendar year

Back again same time same place. Fat boy dropped 30lbs we had much better hunt! We ditched the hilleberg tent and low profile cots for cabelas 8-man guide tent and full size cots. Only rained couple days, more snow than last year. Saw one brown bear and quite a few deer. Two Billy’s and a Nanny.

My buddy and I each shot mule deer doe’s at Blackhawk bar his tested positive mine didn’t. We were pretty close to slate cr

South east part of Oregon pretty sparse but Blues, Elkhorn and Eagle Cap would be a jackpot! It will never happen though

Reminds me of Sienfeld episode where Jerry can’t get his rental car and and there telling him they have his reservation but no car. lifetime license expired ? Who knew

F&G has management objectives, you would need to change those before implementing your herd building plan. Never heard of game agency that operates with those restrictions. Bottom line is you want to limit harvest and eliminate antlerless hunting, and increase mature buck populations. Game...

Those tag numbers merely represent Idaho desire to manage predators. I always buy 2 wolf tags. Double punch is the only ethical shot to take on wolves. Instead of posting tag numbers how about hunting license numbers probably not as shocking?

Could probably look at 40,41,42 general season hunter numbers and get a idea of how much added pressure would end up in 39 if they did make those southern units all draw. Putting all those hunters close to home takes a lot of pressure of rest of state. Yeah population is booming but hunting...

Waited 2 hours at Walmart, left dumped my garbage truck and hit a different vendor on way back to my route no wait and no issue getting my daughter a tag at noon. Pretty sure this debacle will force some change. Can’t have 30,000 plus customers pissed off at once and not get some blow back.

Every meeting they have doesn’t start with crop damage, every project, every survey, every management plan, every budget doesn’t revolve around farmers and ranchers. Things could better here and they could be a lot worse! Credit were credit is due. It’s a forum criticism is Inevitable and to be...

Really farm/ranch issues is only thing F&G worries about? You sound ignorant when you make statements like that over and over. We get it you don’t like the influence they have in the department. RMEF had article years ago stating that Utah could have same number of elk as Colorado based on there...

OutdoorWriter isn’t the only person capable of cut/paste off fish and game website. I like checking multiple times a day it reminds me of that famous Jim Carey movie line!

I used to live in timberline subdivision, foothills burned and house flooded after I moved in 2006. I miss 300 days of Sun a year and clear clean air. My wife hated the wind. Mt. Elden burned before I moved there in 1998 I always wondered what that fire must have looked like from Route 66. Flag...

Why stick with points at all? The way population growth in the west is trending and the fact that there are no secret spots left in the west. We all bought into the idea of getting in line for our turn. Turns out there isn’t enough for everyone! Whatever you do to modify the Ponzi schemes will...

I say 90-10 knowing full well there will be tags leftover, let residents and nonresidents pick them up until there sold out. Not a big deal every state gives there residents preference. The $$ will be there demand is not going anywhere.

1)90-10 split on tags 2)no nonresident cap on leftovers 3)points gone across board in 2028 4)75$ nonresident hunting license, charge whatever going rate is for tags. Rip the band aid off approach. Points=ponzi. There is no fix as with all western states with exception of California your...

15 million hunters in U.S. they can’t all hunt Idaho, although the Boise national forest has been trying for years! Is there a better system not yet.

I stand corrected I thought it was in state revenue not federal pie split 50 ways. How does that formula work is it more size or license based?

Absolutely the Ponzi schemes generate $$ for game and fish depts. But P&M comes from guns, ammo,etc…. Not hunting Licenses AZ has 7.2 million people they sell a hell of a lot more 9mm and shotgun shell than Idahos 1.7 million

Lot’s people banging drum on how point systems are all broke. States have to keep modifying them to keep people in them. idaho’s first come over the counter internet draw is embarrassing. needs to be fixed so friends and family members can apply/hunt together or all just hunt somewhere else . I...