Best hunting state?
01-19-2006, 03:45 PM
#1
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Alton, NH
Posts: 129
Best hunting state?
If you had to pick only one state to hunt in for the rest of your life which state would you be inand what would you be chasing? Why this state and which weapon would you use?
01-19-2006, 07:15 PM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Crescent Valley, NV
Posts: 2,271
RE: Best hunting state?
Quite honestly, I like Nevada just fine. When I go hunting, the chances of seeing another person are very slight. I can hunt lions and varmints all year round. Upland birds have fairly liberal limits and seasons. It may take a couple of years to draw a deer tag, 4 or 5 for a cow elk, 10 for an antelope, and who knows how long for sheep and goat, but I like my chances of being able to have a mountain all to myself. Next would probably be Wyoming, then Utah after that. I put Wyoming second because the wind CONSTANTLY blows there (have lived there before), and then Utah third because it seems like the whole state is growing. I am in a nice little corner right now that doesn't have a big population, and shouldn't get TOO big in the near future.
Weapons, I would use them all. I have a couple .30-06's,a couple 8mm's, a .223, a shotgun, a .22, and a .50 caliber ML. Soon, I will be adding a .357 that will primarily go when I am lion hunting. I also would like to get a bow, but not sure if I will have the time to use it, so not sure it would be worth it for me to spend $500 on a set-up that would collect more dust than anything.
Weapons, I would use them all. I have a couple .30-06's,a couple 8mm's, a .223, a shotgun, a .22, and a .50 caliber ML. Soon, I will be adding a .357 that will primarily go when I am lion hunting. I also would like to get a bow, but not sure if I will have the time to use it, so not sure it would be worth it for me to spend $500 on a set-up that would collect more dust than anything.
01-19-2006, 08:52 PM
#4
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Saskatchewan Canada
Posts: 6,921
RE: Best hunting state?
Is Saskatchewan a state now? LOL
Why? Mulie's, Elk, Moose, Black Bear, Antelope, Waterfowl, Upland, Varmits....oh yeah I almost forgot not to shabby for whitetails either.
Weapon? It don't matter I have/use(Bow/ML, CF)them all. As long as I am hunting...I'm happy!
Why? Mulie's, Elk, Moose, Black Bear, Antelope, Waterfowl, Upland, Varmits....oh yeah I almost forgot not to shabby for whitetails either.
Weapon? It don't matter I have/use(Bow/ML, CF)them all. As long as I am hunting...I'm happy!
01-19-2006, 11:01 PM
#5
Typical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: British Columbia
Posts: 694
RE: Best hunting state?
British Columbia Canada
Why?
About 80 percent of it is public land.
Rifle seasons can run 10 weeks
most tags over the counter and unlimited
Hunting for Grizzly, Black Bear, Couger
Rocky Mtn and Rosy Elk
Mtn Caribou, Canada Moose, Buffalo, Mtn Goat
California and Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep
Dall and Stone Sheep
Columbia and Sitka Blacktail Deer
Mule and Whitetail Deer
plus wolves, wolverine, lynx, bobcat, coyote
Why?
About 80 percent of it is public land.
Rifle seasons can run 10 weeks
most tags over the counter and unlimited
Hunting for Grizzly, Black Bear, Couger
Rocky Mtn and Rosy Elk
Mtn Caribou, Canada Moose, Buffalo, Mtn Goat
California and Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep
Dall and Stone Sheep
Columbia and Sitka Blacktail Deer
Mule and Whitetail Deer
plus wolves, wolverine, lynx, bobcat, coyote
01-20-2006, 12:29 PM
#9
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Cheyoming
Posts: 870
RE: Best hunting state?
My first thought was: "You can't hunt if you can't get a licence". Even though I live in Cheyoming, I would not pick it first because of the difficulty of getting nonresident tags. I like the idea of Sas or BC, but what do you have to do to get into Canada with a gun?
For ease of licencing, and ability to get on a multitude of game, I'd have to vote for Colorado. (Please forgive me lord . . . for saying that).
As far as a rifle? Even though I own many guns, If I were stranded on a desert island and could use one caliber for everything larger than a Cayote, .300 Win Mag!
For ease of licencing, and ability to get on a multitude of game, I'd have to vote for Colorado. (Please forgive me lord . . . for saying that).
As far as a rifle? Even though I own many guns, If I were stranded on a desert island and could use one caliber for everything larger than a Cayote, .300 Win Mag!
01-20-2006, 06:06 PM
#10
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Calgary,Alberta,Canada
Posts: 2,123
RE: Best hunting state?
I would have to say Alberta. Why because of the variety of game such as moose,elk,bighorn,goat,bear,caribou,antelope,white tail,mulies,buffalo,coyotes,wolves,cant count how many birds you can hunt and the list just keeps going on. There is just soo much land to hunt, and there are alot of animals, big ones at that.Can use just about any weapon.Plus were pretty much a true redneck province.