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100 miles north of home. Rifle if I can draw a tag, bow if not.

7E Arizona

Idaho, probably.
No other state has given me any luv.....

Not Montana

We all live where we live for many good reasons, but I’d have to think long and hard about being in a state where I could not get an over the counter deer or elk rifle tag. Just sayin’.

We need to make some decisions on Idaho's elk draw in the next couple of weeks. There are 5 of us who hunt together. Last year none of us drew. There was a late cow hunt just NW of here with 2500 tags. It was intended to reduce cow numbers. The last week of Nov, 3 went to one area of this unit and 2 of us went to another. There'd been some weather and the elk moved. The 3 ran into them and got 3 elk. They called us and we drove 5o miles, getting there late after noon. I got 1 that day. We ended up with 4 elk for 5 of us, all shot the same day.

The hunt did what the F&G intended so for this year they reduced tags from 2500 to 700 and shortened the season from 30 days to 21. We need to decide whether to apply for a draw hunt with an 85% chance of drawing or to hope we can get some of these late tags again.

Eastern Washington, Archery.

Not Montana for me too - the big game combo used to be a pretty sure thing but not this year. I have a very slim chance of drawing a NR ND deer tag otherwise my hunting options are screwed for ‘21.

Beautiful country there......

the fun thing about having lots of different interests within the shooting sports hobby, and living 45 minutes from 3 shooting ranges and 2 hours from a million acres of desert is.... when you don't get drawn for elk.... again.... you can choose from: NRA/CMP service rifle, Trap, Olympic/bullseye Pistol, Quail hunting, metallic silhouette, 3-gun, smallbore rifle, rabbit hunting, Palma/F-class, sporting clays, coyote calling, muzzleloading, squirrel hunting, IDPA, cranking on the reloading press, IPSC, Skeet, PRS..... there sure isn't time to watch TV!

Or...you can spend hours searching the web to find primers to enable you to do all of that stuff.

I know after today I will not be hunting in New Mexico!

I will hunt about 40 miles from my house (SW Montana), but I did see about 20 just outside my house this morning! (To bad they won't be there in the fall).

You, me, and many more.

It was a blood bath with an additional 60,000+ apps.

Montana bow and rifle

25 minutes from my house as usual......... Bighorn Mts Wy.

Put in for some west side of the Bighorns, Not far and no grizzlies.

You boys compete for licenses in the Big Horns......we’ll compete with the grizzlies in our area! 🤔 memtb

I’ll be hunting Elk this season...........in front of my television.

Colorado unit 11/211 muzzle loader burned the 7 points not getting any younger.