Best state to hunt multiple game animals

[Berserker]

UP gun season is still a holiday atmosphere. Southern WI not so much. Lots of people still hunt, but not from camps, and bars are not packed.

I do know people who love archery so much they don't care about gun. Myself, I just couldn't miss gun season. Might be the only time of year I see my family. Like I said, it is a different atmosphere. People out of the area, just don't get it. I hunt in lake superior snow belt, so hard going. But it is where I hunt.

14 days this year, and just saw a spike, and does. In 10 years at my camp, second year I didn't get a buck. Weird year, weather, state shut down.

 

[JFrank]

My hunter buddy is nearing retirement and asking the same questions.
My nephew works on a cattle ranch in western Montana. They have it all. Antelope moose deer elk small game, excellent fishing hiking, parks, public land..natural beauty......but it is remote. It is cold.
It can be hard to get around in the winter.
My friend is looking at Tennessee.
deer, elk, bear, small game, good fishing, hiking, Mild climate, a easy day to the gulf shores.
Georgia is similar.

Your Nephew is correct we have it all. In fact I had Elk , Deer and Wolf all come through the property last night

 

[Diamondback.]

Montana sounds like what you are talking about. Southwest - Livingston / Bozeman area.
The trout fishing is out of this world and hunting is also.
You are located with driving to Idaho, Washington State, Wyoming if you want to explore more.

Colorado - Grand Mesa near Delta / Gunnison river, and Rifle is a good place for Over The Counter Elk Tags. It is a sportsmans state also with great backpacking hikes.

 

[The_shooter]

I’m really happy with all the feed back. Sounds like I’m gonna have to think about some trade offs, most likely deer I’ve killed truck loads of them and cooked them a thousand ways. Or maybe just splitting it up perhaps a small cabin in Alaska for moose and caribou and the main house in Montana.

 

[George P]

Montana sounds like what you are talking about. Southwest - Livingston / Bozeman area.
The trout fishing is out of this world and hunting is also.
You are located with driving to Idaho, Washington State, Wyoming if you want to explore more.

Colorado - Grand Mesa near Delta / Gunnison river, and Rifle is a good place for Over The Counter Elk Tags. It is a sportsmans state also with great backpacking hikes.

I lived in Rifle and Parachute back during the oil shale days of the early 80s. OTC elk and deer tags were the thing then; my understanding, however, is that changed some years ago to a draw system like I had in NV

 

[Sniper66]

Many of these posts demonstrate why so many people I talk to say, "I don't hunt any more because I have no place to go." You have to work as hard finding places to go as you do when you hunt. Hunting for hunting spots is a never ending effort for me. Which is a good thing because I lost 3 places this year. One because the landowner's grandson took up bow hunting. The second because of the China Virus and the 3rd because of politics. These are longer stories than is appropriate for our forum, but the take away lesson is you never know what will happen this year, so like good boy scouts, "Be Prepared". For our OP, every state will require diligence and work to find good places. Sadly, the days of kids getting out pf school to hunt are gone. All this said, I would look seriously at Montana for big game.

 

[daniel craig]

Nobody has mentioned Maine. It’s seems like Maine would be a good state to hunt though.

 

[The_shooter]

I’m not trying to be an ass but I’m avoiding liberal areas of this country with my best effort

 

[Sniper66]

We all have reasons for choosing to live in a certain area when we have the freedom to choose. I respect your freedom. With that freedom, I would encourage you to do your best to find the place that works for you and your family. Montana is a great state with abundant land and game animals and will be filling up in the next decade or two. I say get it while you can; do not ponder your decision too long. I spent the month of July this year south of Bozeman. With a bit of effort I found numerous gun people and places to shoot ground squirrels. The real estate is getting increasingly expensive so do not hesitate too long. I'm considering a move myself and Montana is high on my list. Go for it.

 

[George P]

As more and more flee CA with lots of cash from selling their expensive homes and also having the ability to work from home, Montana will soon go the way of NV, CO, WA, OR, parts of ID and UT with not-so-gun-friendly folks moving in and changing things - besides just driving real estate through the roof. I watched it happen first hand in NV and CO

 

[JFrank]

Nah...
It’s way too cold in the winter that starts November 1st and ends June 1st
Most Pilgrims can’t last that long

 

[George P]

But those same folks with the cash will just go to their winter homes in AZ

 

[JFrank]

If they have any money left after paying for a Montana spread then maybe so.

 

[George P]

Th average anti-gun techie from CA is a multi-millionaire by the time he/she is 30...............

 

[JFrank]

Th average anti-gun techie from CA is a multi-millionaire by the time he/she is 30...............

Do you have a link to the documents or reports that support that statement because the last I heard California has a very diverse population including a hell of a lot of people homeless.

If not that’s ok too

 

[George P]

Those homeless aren't the ones buying the property all over the former Red states. I watched it personally happen in three states I lived in.

Google Sr. Software Engineers make almost $200K per year PLUS stock options - that's how they all become young millionaires.

 

[Sniper66]

Time to end this??

 

[The_shooter]

Hey anyone who has hunted or lived in Alaska could you explain the process of getting tags and a license I’ve lookEd on the government site but there only showing tag prices for non resident hunters.

 

[T.R.]

I grew up in Powell, Wyoming. Good mule deer and elk hunting can be found within the western facing foothills of the Bighorn Mts. Plenty of antelope in nearly all parts of the state. We moved to Rapid City, South Dakota in 1994 when I retired from USAF. Truly terrific deer hunting within the Black Hills if you can be drawn for a good unit. Plenty of antelope along the Wyoming and Montana border. For elk hunting, I always return to the nearby Bear Lodge Mts. of Wyoming. South Dakota is also famous for pheasant, prairie dogs, and waterfowl. For the most part, South Dakota offers better selection of medical clinics and doctors. We moved again to Pennsylvania in 2005 because I landed a most excellent salaried job. Then retired to the Gulf Coast of Florida in 2017. I continue to hunt in Wyoming and South Dakota plus Alabama and Georgia. You don't have to live there to hunt there.

Hoping this is helpful.
TR

 

[redneck2]

Hey anyone who has hunted or lived in Alaska could you explain the process of getting tags and a license I’ve lookEd on the government site but there only showing tag prices for non resident hunters.

If you look back through this thread you’ll find Alaskan residents. I’d PM them

 

[whughett]

Well that just swayed me a little bit more to the Alaskan dream

LOL. Unless your prepared to live in the city better look at some boob tube vids on Alaska winter living. Long cold, serious cold, winters short wet summers.

 

[DM~]

Hey anyone who has hunted or lived in Alaska could you explain the process of getting tags and a license I’ve lookEd on the government site but there only showing tag prices for non resident hunters.

Walk into any place in Alaska that sells them, and get them...

DM

 

[DM~]

LOL. Unless your prepared to live in the city better look at some boob tube vids on Alaska winter living. Long cold, serious cold, winters short wet summers.

Depends on where you live in Alaska, not all parts of Alaska have long serious cold winters...

DM

 

[whughett]

Thanks, watching too much “life below zero”. As a young man often dreamed about Alaska, family and job kept me rooted here in NE however. Now It’s Florida in the winter. Any temp below 50’f is cold.

 

[CraigC]

...I’m not a fan of cold weather but I won’t let it effect a choice like that...

I can't get past that point. I'd strongly suggest taking an honest, hard look at actually living in a place like Montana or Alaska. Not get tunnel vision thinking about hunting, which amounts to just a couple weeks a year. I love cold weather but there are concessions required to live in places like that that I am not willing to make to live there.

Depends on where you live in Alaska, not all parts of Alaska have long serious cold winters...DM

Everything is relative. Compared to where he is now in the Carolinas, winter anywhere in Alaska is long, serious and cold. We landed in Anchorage 12/12/1991. It was -20° and there was six feet of snow on the ground. That's cold.