Thread: USA Hunting 2024

Idaho was my home hunting state. Good to hunt.
I giggle when people here say “golly gee, I wish we managed our game like you do in the states”
My response…
“Oh yeah? You wanna be able to shoot 1 deer for during one week each year??!!”
Y’all have fun over there.
Bothe the super complicated super cool super ‘merica tag lottery systems of Washington and Idaho blew a gasket this year and told thousands of people they got a great tag when they actually didn’t. I just got a buncha mail from merica and apparently I drew a buncha tags when I didn’t even apply or have a license.

Originally Posted by cb14

Awesome.

Did you hunt Idaho about 10 years ago? The Idaho draw now is pretty crazy where the OTC tags are a queue system on 1 December each year.

Yeah. Was pretty easy back then, just walk up and buy a tag.

Originally Posted by whanahuia

Yeah. Was pretty easy back then, just walk up and buy a tag.

I've hunted bow deer in Idaho unit 54 and can pass on info you wanted. Its easy to draw (100% odds last couple of years) but a hard hunt. I wasn't successful but was a cool hunt among huge rutting bull elk.

Cheers. Ill be hunting private land this time. Did a swap hunt with a Member of the forum.

https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....new-nz-100704/

I may need some advice and suggestions for hunting WY at some stage if you don’t mind mate.

Currently up to 6 points for elk, deer and antelope in WY.

@cb14 Are there any states where we could purchase OTC tags for mule or white tail bucks as a non resident?

Originally Posted by Joe Schmo

Idaho was my home hunting state. Good to hunt.
I giggle when people here say “golly gee, I wish we managed our game like you do in the states”
My response…
“Oh yeah? You wanna be able to shoot 1 deer for during one week each year??!!”
Y’all have fun over there.
Bothe the super complicated super cool super ‘merica tag lottery systems of Washington and Idaho blew a gasket this year and told thousands of people they got a great tag when they actually didn’t. I just got a buncha mail from merica and apparently I drew a buncha tags when I didn’t even apply or have a license.

Having worked in game management in a couple of Eu countries I thought some of our ways were bad enough, the US system would drive me nuts.

Originally Posted by Boar Freak

@cb14 Are there any states where we could purchase OTC tags for mule or white tail bucks as a non resident?

Not in the states that I hunt, maybe in the east but I’m not familiar with those. There are states that don’t have preference points which means your odds are the same as the other applicants, like New Mexico and Idaho. But the odds aren’t great.