Originally Posted by
salukipv1
perhaps you should re-read your eastmans'
a unit could be good/great but access is terrible and therefore yellow/white.
none the less, my point was that even units with very "limited" access, can still be hunted successfully.
Excuse me, but I strongly suggest that you're the one that needs to read the Eastmans MRS closer.
If you'll look closer at the charts, it specifically shows a header as "Potential" or "Trophy Quality" and that blue stands for excellent trophy quality, green for good, yellow for fair, and white for poor. The colors have absolutely nothing to do with access issues that are shown separately in a column to the far right in the tables under the heading "Public Access"! An example is the unit I hunt in. It is colored yellow in the MRS because they don't consider it to have good quality or quantity even though over 75% is legally accessible public land. Incidentally, I've drawn three buck tags I've applied for there and killed three bucks between 75" and 80". There are goats like that in every unit if you have the time and energy to look for them and know how to hunt them. Yes, I agree that if you do your homework that you can kill a goat even in areas that don't have a lot of legally accessible public land, but you'll need good maps and a GPS with a landownership chip or download to avoid trespassing. Here's the last two I shot in 2009 and 2012. The shoulder mount was 76" and the other was right at 80" before the 60 day drying period was up.