Well this hunting season will be different
07-22-2011 | 05:33 AM
#11
Banned
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From: Boncarbo,Colorado
Ray, dealing with the same BS in new mexico this year. Some jerk rancher leased a good deal of state land at all access points leading in our main hunting area. Basically locking us out of state land so he could charge $7,000 for his land owners tags. He left a small gap but that gap is a rock wall so we MIGHT be tempted to scale it LOL.
07-22-2011 | 05:44 AM
#12
Giant Nontypical
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From: Colorado
Well to be blunt I'm in total shock. I don't know whether to be ticked off or just cry. Going of my 14 year of hunting I have never I mean NEVER got a Mule Deer Doe B Tag. Ever Ever. I always get one and usually buy another or two when they are on surplus. I found out tonight that I didn't get one. I just don't know what to say. I have never TROPHY hunted. Always needed the meat for my family. I didn't get any special elk tags which was ok, my odds were less than 1 percent for that. I don't know yet for Antelope. I don't know what to say. Just shock. Don't know what I am going to do for the coming year for meat. I have my general deer tag and elk tag. So I go from avg 3 deer a year to one. That hurts. I hope to God I get my antelope. IF that doesn't happen I guess for once I will TROPHY hunt. Never done it but there is a first for everything. Man this sucks. Come one ANTELOPE tag!!!
Last edited by Muley Hunter; 07-22-2011 at 05:52 AM.
07-22-2011 | 11:23 AM
#13
Nontypical Buck
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From: Yucca Valley,Ca
Ray, dealing with the same BS in new mexico this year. Some jerk rancher leased a good deal of state land at all access points leading in our main hunting area. Basically locking us out of state land so he could charge $7,000 for his land owners tags. He left a small gap but that gap is a rock wall so we MIGHT be tempted to scale it LOL.
07-31-2011 | 01:05 PM
#14
Spike
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man, i feel for u guys in the small and/or liberal states. here in Texas, theres lease land everywhere, and if youre willing to put in the time, you, wife, and a child can theoretically wind up with a dozen plus deer. ive killed four in one season, and last year my brother-in-law and his two sons killed seventeen, but that incliudes a few exotics on a private ranch. im on a 7,500 acre lease, plus hunt my in-laws family farm. its all whitetail of course with no elk or mulies, but you stay busy in the season with no worries about getting your freezer filled.
