Frustrated. I see every year the Idaho Department of Money (Fish and Game) pigeon holing hunters into smaller and smaller areas, time slots, draw hunts and pick your weapon type of mentality. Sometimes I feel lucky that I'm as old as I am and got to enjoy as much hunting as I did before they 'fixed it'.
My good friend and neighbor, O.T. was telling me how it used to be in the old days around here. He'd leave the house and start hunting in a particular direction and wouldn't stop until nightfall. His father had been the same way only moreso. It was nothing for them walk 12-15 miles going after rabbit grouse, quail-- whatever. They'd get over to the other end of the county and look for an extended family member to drive them home or sleep in a barn and go back the next day. He never worried about property lines; he was related to nearly every landowner in some way or another, and nobody cared besides. O.T. died 5 years go.
