What \'DONT\' you like about your hunting area?

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cnelk

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What dont you like about hunting area?
Obviously there are things you like, but what is something you dont like?

Is it fickle wind?

Hunting pressure?

Lots of blow downs?

Too much private land?
 
Well let\'s see now Brad, no I guess I won\'t answer that question right now. Maybe sometime around the 3rd week of Sept. :upthumb:
 
Lots of private land around us.

Lost a big chunk of land last year to energy company. Rumer is they are shutting down more this year.

Just plain to hot where we hunt now.
 
Cattle over grazing the land, roads far too close together and hunting pressure.
 
I\'m pretty happy where I\'m at, but it\'s not a road camp, so getting to camp takes a lot of effort. Sometimes I\'m a bit jealous of the road-campers, who can have coolers, cots, and a vehicle to get them to town for a burger. Road camps have much nicer \"camps\" than I do, which is a bit Spartan.

Fickle wind? Well, aren\'t we all complaining about that? I don\'t know of a place in elk country with terribly consistent wind.

My current spot have very few deer. It would be nice where there are some opportunities at other game, but really, elk is about all that live at my spot.
 
I had to think about mine for a bit, one I would agree with Deertick on would be more mule deer. Plenty of WT on the private land but where I hunt there aren\'t many deer to go around. Would make it worth buying a NR combo tag so I could have my options open.
I am not a big fan of the Bears (Brown and Black) or the wolves in my area. Haven\'t been to much of a problem yet.
Cant use trailcams during the season either, that would be one regulation I would like to have changed. Might be too much work anyway, but would be fun seeing all the different animals come through. Even if it was just at camp.
 
the unit I hunt most often has all the access/logging roads on the south-facing side of the primary ridgeline. in order to get to the north-facing side, you have to go downhill several hundred feet, then climb back up to (what you hope to be) \"the good stuff\". I\'ve only done this a couple times, but found it worth the hike when I did.

I sure didnt like the hike back to the truck at the end of the day, however. \"passing\" the truck and hiking below it, then back up is an abnormal emotional beating.

dang, I just sound whiney....
 
More pressure than I like and its below timberline with no parks, so I don\'t get to glass open areas or see a bull moving cows across a meadow like I do in my dreams. It seems I get a little claustrophobic after spending 10 days in dark timber.
 
Boy Brad! I\'d have to say all of the above except for the fickle wind. I figure if the wind gets me, that\'s my fault. I should have been more observant. :wtf:
 
the only thing I don\'t like is the downed timber from the beetle kill. Other than that I love the Colorado wilderness.
 
The muzzleloader hunting pressure. It pushes the elk out of this one area that I really like to hunt (0.5 mile - 1 mile away from the road). The elk do not go back to that area after ML opening weekend.

The archery hunting pressure isn\'t bad during the week. It is only bad on weekends, so the weekend warrior archery hunters are another do not like for my hunting area.
 
Like one fellow said, I\'ll let you know in September when I get back. However, one thing that concerns me is since we are packing in a week at a time, I have never stayed away from \"creature comforts\" for that long. 2 1/2 days longest I\'ve been out in the bush. Like Deertick said, those camps along the road look mighty inviting.
 
When I see another hunter in what I like to call one of my areas. At that point it\'s no longer one of my areas, and it\'s scratched from my list.
 
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