Idaho unit 26/27 cuts

[time2hunt]

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[trophyhunt]

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[Karl Blanchard]

Glad to see it honestly.  That hunt got too populnar with NR and the deer quality and quantity were showing that.

[time2hunt]

I totally agree with you managed right could produce some better buck in the years to come. My issue is that I’m hearing this was Outfitter pushed and they are trying to make it like Wyoming wilderness where a guide is needed.


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[Karl Blanchard]

While I was not in attendance at any of the meetings on it, my hunting partner who is very involved in season settings and the like.  My impression from talking to him is it was hunter driven.  Outfitters and the air shuttle businesses are the ones who will suffer do to this not benefit.  A guy can still hunt 27 during general just not the extended unlimited season.

[actionshooter]

This is awesome..... I have been complaining to the IDFG biologist and wardens for 3 years about the overcrowding/ over harvest in 27 late season.
The 1st year I hunted it, there were 250 people, according to a warden I spoke too back in October, about 675 permits were purchased for the late season in 2017. I quit going a couple of years ago for this reason, what I was seeing was ridiculous.....it was a western washington "shoot the 1st legal buck" mentality with small cities on the airstrips.

If I never get to hunt there again, this is the right thing....

[actionshooter]

https://idfg.idaho.gov/press/new-changes-2018-big-game-rules-sheep-goat-unit-10a-deer-hunt-weiser-river-elk-zone-and-units

[Mtnwalker]

And to think, my grandpa quit hunting it when he started having to share an airstrip with another camp 

I was hoping they would go to a limited quota just for the trophy potential but never dreamed the cut would be this drastic. I'm all for residents having more tags but this new setup is awful similar to region G now. Would love to see it become a true draw tag in the future, what a dream hunt that could be

[Hot Lunch]

It sounds like it was out of control at the air strips. Little citiy of huge camps. Not what a Wilderness experience is suppose to be.

[BOOMER]

Another unit ruined by the internet

[actionshooter]

Another unit ruined by the internet

This is fact.....

[trophyhunt]

Another unit ruined by the internet

unfortunately , many units are ruined by the net. 

[Hot Lunch]

You can add Podcasts as another unit destroyer.

[MarkTrail]

The internet was the true beginning of the end. Doesn't surprise me. These areas were everyone's favorite late hunt lately. It was about 5 years overdue. Tons of stupid people going there and shooting young bucks and posting pictures everywhere.

[Mr Mykiss]

I woulda liked to have seen that kind of action in a few dozen other units...