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HUNTING SEASONS & TYPES OF WEAPONS USED
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<blockquote data-quote="Buckys" data-source="post: 2570379" data-attributes="member: 107750"><p>Definitely true. In my home state, we can buy our own hunting land, pay exhorbinant fees to lease land, hunt general public hunting access areas or enter the lottery system for state hunts on wildlife management areas. the latter used to be a good option twenty years ago but now many years, you just don't get drawn and when you do it is for specific dates which are often a tue-wed-thu arrangement. I'm sure x-bows have increased the applications to the archery-only opportunities and affected those odds as well. The best archery hunt was a federal property which required bow hunter education and an annual proficiency test which was not a requirement for the state land hunts and certainly culled the herd of applicants. But it was always hard to get drawn for a rifle hunt on the best wildlife management areas - a resident could expect to wait 10-20 years back 20yrs ago for some of those. Hunting with a bow shortened that significantly but there was still almost always a wait (unless you got lucky). Will probably never get drawn for the antelope lottery hunt.</p><p></p><p>Best solution I've found here - get a good job, rent some land, get a better job, buy some land.</p><p></p><p>I envy you all in the mountain states and miss my boyhood home in the northern midwest ... your public hunting and lottery systems are imperfect and crowded but you have a lot better opportunities for public hunting than some of us.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buckys, post: 2570379, member: 107750"] Definitely true. In my home state, we can buy our own hunting land, pay exhorbinant fees to lease land, hunt general public hunting access areas or enter the lottery system for state hunts on wildlife management areas. the latter used to be a good option twenty years ago but now many years, you just don't get drawn and when you do it is for specific dates which are often a tue-wed-thu arrangement. I'm sure x-bows have increased the applications to the archery-only opportunities and affected those odds as well. The best archery hunt was a federal property which required bow hunter education and an annual proficiency test which was not a requirement for the state land hunts and certainly culled the herd of applicants. But it was always hard to get drawn for a rifle hunt on the best wildlife management areas - a resident could expect to wait 10-20 years back 20yrs ago for some of those. Hunting with a bow shortened that significantly but there was still almost always a wait (unless you got lucky). Will probably never get drawn for the antelope lottery hunt. Best solution I've found here - get a good job, rent some land, get a better job, buy some land. I envy you all in the mountain states and miss my boyhood home in the northern midwest ... your public hunting and lottery systems are imperfect and crowded but you have a lot better opportunities for public hunting than some of us. [/QUOTE]
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