You' d turn down a chance to hunt Alberta' s bow only zone then, wouldn' t you ?
Never said I wouldn' t hunt your area......just said I wouldn' t swell with pride when telling the story about the buck I got from there..........sure he is a great animal but your biggest obstacle is drawing a tag.....the rest is gravy.
You would not have a good time on this place then as its trophy managed first and foremost.
I' d have a great time..........I never said I wouldn' t kill a trophy, I just accept what my land has to offer and don' t set unrealistic goals. If I waited for a buck like that where I hunt I would never see one in 50 years. Trophys depend on perspective.........a nice 8 pt is about as good as it gets where I hunt.......taking one of these is equal to you waiting on the 150" + guys at this place. Both are the big boys of those particular woods.........they don' t compare head to head but situationally they are equals.
Yes, you' d get the same thrill and then some knowing it took you 4-8 years or more to draw a permit to hunt the place
Why don' t you just go hunt there every year.......it' s public land right??
You cannot kill big deer if there are none to be hunted.
Couldn' t have said it better myself............that is exactly why the thrill is diminished IMO. Your skills won' t be what gets you a great buck.......money and luck in a drawing will play a much bigger role. If a place is crawling with huge deer how excited can you be when you bag a huge deer?? Of course he' s huge.......they ALL are!!!
This place provides a very special, trophy managed area that for a small tag fee you can draw a lucky tag that Bill Jerdon would be envious to have.
I still don' t see how you can keep people off public land. If Bill Jordan wants to hunt there or any other person with a legal license for that matter......there is nothing anyone can do or say to stop them.
Calling me a liar won' t change the fact that its there. Maybe your state doesn' t do it ... mine does.
So it is run by the state?? I thought you said it was run by private citizens?
I did not find the field this picture was taken in - because the pictures are a year old and those food plots are not there now.
Here' s an idea...........hunt the food plots that ARE there now
That' s why they are there.
If you' re a whitetail hunter, you know 2 days before the opening of season that bucks change their habits and you never see then enter those summer routines again until , well, next summer !
You say this like it is a fact that ALL deer behave this way..........is there a post it note on the deer time clock reminding them that bowseason is Monday??
Again......if this is so set in stone then why do we scout deer at all??
I took a fellow to my " honey hole" elk spot a few years back. The next year he went in, with a few buddies, and the next year my " honey hole" had several tents and a dozen hunters in it from 3 different states. I learned my lesson there.
That is exactly why I have such a hard time believing that no one hunts this place..........and it' s freely open to the public [
] You mean to tell me that not only has no one ever blabbed about this place when showing off the buck they killed but also that no one even knows about this thousands of acres of public land?
Statistically speaking that sounds impossible.
I don' t mind you thinking I am lying.
I don' t know what other choice I am left with seeing how you didn' t answer any of my questions about how and who is running such a place.
Better you do to keep this place as secret as I can and hopefully draw a tag every few years.
How many people apply for tags each year..........and where does the money go from the applicants that are not drawn?