2016 Mule Deer?
12-01-2015, 10:58 AM
#11
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: ****ifornia
Posts: 5,052
While I also prefer DIY hunts on public land there is no way I could have done the mule deer hunt in Region G of Wyoming this season without a guide who had good horses and knew the area. It was as close to wilderness that you could get where a guide is required for NRs in Wyoming and no way at my age that I could have even rented a trailer and horses to try a DIY. Therefore, I take exception to the statement about feathers for brains, LOL! PS: I also didn't spend $4K-$5K for the hunt, as it was much less than that after doing a lot of research and finding the right guy, and I also have never had any yearning to hunt in Africa regardless of the price!
Saratoga Safaris is one town up. I saw a few bucks their clients took...dandys!
There's one ranch that we hunted very close to that is $15,000+ for a mulie...
12-01-2015, 03:40 PM
#12
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: WI
Posts: 1,089
It's supply and demand as long as guys will pay big dollars it will happen, it's just business. What about some big ranches charging outrageous, trespass fees, it all adds to the mix. I talked to one rancher this fall about shooting a doe Antelope, ($48 tag) he wanted a $5000.00 trespass fee. I know ranchers have expenses, i'm self employed too, but man, at that rate the common man can't hunt.
12-01-2015, 03:54 PM
#13
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Allegan, MI
Posts: 8,019
It's supply and demand as long as guys will pay big dollars it will happen, it's just business. What about some big ranches charging outrageous, trespass fees, it all adds to the mix. I talked to one rancher this fall about shooting a doe Antelope, ($48 tag) he wanted a $5000.00 trespass fee. I know ranchers have expenses, i'm self employed too, but man, at that rate the common man can't hunt.
12-02-2015, 07:01 AM
#15
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 9,230
I've never had a rancher anywhere want to charge me a trespass fee of a doe antelope or even a doe deer in either CO or WY. Trophy bucks are another story since many ranches are leased by outfitters but all the ranchers I know don't give 2 thoughts to does. Cow elk may cost a bit, although I've never paid a trespass fee for those either.
12-02-2015, 12:21 PM
#16
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Colorado
Posts: 9,557
I only know one land owner near me. He has a sign on his gate that says........Welcome Hunters. Anybody can hunt there for free, and they do. It's more crowded than the surrounding public land.
I never could figure out why so many hunt it when the game has run onto the public land to get away from them. I hunted the public land that was next to it one year, and never saw another hunter. No complaints from me. I loved it.
I never could figure out why so many hunt it when the game has run onto the public land to get away from them. I hunted the public land that was next to it one year, and never saw another hunter. No complaints from me. I loved it.
