LAST EDITED ON Nov-29-18 AT 11:48PM (MST)[p]Mild but wet. What I mean is more moisture overall but lots of high elevation snowpack. Gobbs of that.
Not so much the middle to lower areas with that knee deep crusty crap that kills the deer.
The mountains here on the Wasatch front are getting hammered with snow above 7500 ft and lots of soaking wet rain lower than that. Perfect.
This was my first year really ?hunting? areas near where I now live. The pressure is really bad. I see guys where I didn't think I'd see guys. And in these places there were guys off an on again from archery to he end of rifle for deer.
Here?s the sad truth. People who hunt. Who really hunt. I'm talking the guy who is applying for 4+ states a year. The guy who has $4k plus just in optics. The guy who spends just as much time on google earth and onx maps as others do ?gaming?. The guy who has over 10 trail cameras. The guy who thinks ?I'll just get further away from the truck than the other guy?. Overall hunter numbers are continuing to fall. Anti hunters continue to rise.......but hunters like the one I'm describing and his close group of buddies who do the same.....are killing more and more animals then ever. If not for limited units and private there would be nothing left. Steven Rhinella, Jason Harriston, Cam Hanes, Randy Newberg, and even those semi-annoying Hush people are really inspiring the average dude to step it up.
We hunters Stay longer, hunt harder, do more recon work, apply more, buy more efficient gear and weaponry, strive for our own grip and grin picture for their Instagram or Facebook page.
If it were not true then I wouldn't see people with hush hats, tines up hats, and ?keep hammering? shirts on.
I'm one of these people so I get it. I'm not condemning I'm just calling it what it is: We are getting too good at killing the animals we all love. I hate to admitt it but it's almost gone too far. Trail cams, rangefinders, high end optics, the internet, hunting buddies, jealously, and greed are all positively affecting the quality of the hunt and simultaneously negatively affecting the quality of the herds.
I have no idea what the solution is but unless ?opportunity? keeps getting less, then hunting will continually begin to suck more and more each year. This rant sucks, is no help to this thread, and makes me sad but I'm hitting ?post message? anyway.
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