20-30 years ago, I could hunt the migration areas into the middle of November and not see "lots" of big bucks, if any."
How old were you 30 years ago? At your age you're talking about the late 80's into the 90's as far as hunting yourself. I'm referring to the late 60's, 70's and early 80's, before Resource Allocation.
Not necessarily disagreeing with you on your points, just saying depending on weather conditions and migration back then, there were good numbers of big bucks. On the right weekend years ago when the stars aligned, all you had to do was visit a check station in Okanogan County and you would see an abundance of bucks coming through.
Sorry, don't mean to jack the thread.....nice buck by the way.
