Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game Non resident Wyoming hunters, better get ready for this.

Why the hostility and quotation marks when you say resident?

That is the reason that I purchased a Lifetime Idaho Hunting License. If I apply to participate in a drawing as a non-resident, I would be placed in the resident tag pool. The gal at the fish cop shop that sold me my lifetime license twenty years ago, told me that I would no doubt be right about the tag allocations in the future. But she also bet that I wouldn’t come back from Montana to hunt in Idaho. Unfortunately, she was right-I have never used my Lifetime License.

I’ve got the same points going into the antelope draw for this year. Might see you in the same unit.

You don’t want anything to do with hunting/conservation on a ballot IMO.

That’s a fact brother SLM, we saw how that went in 96’, our bobcat, lion, and bear with dogs went bye bye...

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Too many uninformed folks having a say in something they know nothing about. Very bad for the resource, be it renewable or not.

I plan to go Bird hunting with my buddy in Montana this year and I was hoping to be able to hunt whitetail or mule deer as well but not sure that will happen, although I have a lot more research to do. Judman is kinda selling me on Washington though. Hear it’s hard hunting out there which sounds even better. I’m only 26 and haven’t a lot of knowledge and no experience hunting out west so I gotta ask. What’s the point behind a point system? Instead of just a lottery where everyone has the same chance year after year?

It allows those of us who hunt every year to continue that trend, my group are not casual hunters and we buy points, in multiple states annually so that we seldom run out of opportunities. We have learned how and when we can draw. Like many here , hunting is not a weekend excursion, to see the great outdoors. It's a way of life, we are very serious and travel thousands of miles annually just to hunt. The point system allows the "dedicated" a better opportunity over the casual hunter, some of who may not even show up, after drawing a tag. Many units take decades to draw, and if you keep at it you will be rewarded, not lose your opportunity to someone who thinks it might be a fun weekend.

Did this legislative initiative die out? I heard from a reliable source that it did.

I have 7 points for Antelope, but if they don't want me my money and I will go else where!

Last season in SE Idaho I bumped into 4 guys from Mississippi. They said it was their 4th straight year hunting the area. 'Course that was just before I met the father & son from Illinois out on their 1st trip...

Not so bad, NR tags costing ten times as much as resident tags. When I lived in Washington I knew many that hunted without a license and typically used 22 rifles. The welfare check only went so far.

Here’s Colorado’s feeble attempt to do something similar to Wyoming, except Colorado wants to limit non-residents to ONLY 30% tag allocation in the draws!

https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-150