My hunting partner of 8 years has a sister and brother-in-law who run a farm in Wyoming, near the Montana border. Last year, while we were out hunting (and seeing nothing), his sister called him and left him a voicemail, saying "I woke up this morning and looked out the window, and there were 6 deer in the driveway. I don't know what to do. Maybe if someone could come hunt these things...I don't know...give me a call." She was laying it on thick, that's for sure. We had been talking about going up there for years, but I said "we've GOT to make this happen." Well, we missed the deadline for putting in for the lottery, so we decided to get doe tags, and make this a "scouting" trip. I got online, and discovered a few issues:
1. When purchasing the reduced-price doe/fawn tags after the lottery had concluded (over-the-counter, so to speak), the price drops from $48 to $34 for a tag, because there's no application fee involved.
2. These are limited-quota tags, meaning they only issue 1200 of them for this particular area, and there's no limit to how many you can buy, until the quota is met- but they'll only let you buy 20 at a time online. Then you have to log off, and log back on to buy another 20, and so on, until they're all sold. Or, you can buy them over the counter.
Ok, so I'm only kidding that those are problems. Really? Non-resident doe tags cost less than a CA deer tag? Oh yeah!
A couple days ago, she sent him a text with this:
And this:
She says there were about 35 in one field, 40 in another, and more across the street! This is all right outside the house!
The plan is to go up for Thanksgiving week and bring home at least two apiece. And if we have time remaining, with nothing to do, there are pheasants and grouse that need to be thinned as well.
1. When purchasing the reduced-price doe/fawn tags after the lottery had concluded (over-the-counter, so to speak), the price drops from $48 to $34 for a tag, because there's no application fee involved.
2. These are limited-quota tags, meaning they only issue 1200 of them for this particular area, and there's no limit to how many you can buy, until the quota is met- but they'll only let you buy 20 at a time online. Then you have to log off, and log back on to buy another 20, and so on, until they're all sold. Or, you can buy them over the counter.
Ok, so I'm only kidding that those are problems. Really? Non-resident doe tags cost less than a CA deer tag? Oh yeah!
A couple days ago, she sent him a text with this:
And this:
She says there were about 35 in one field, 40 in another, and more across the street! This is all right outside the house!
The plan is to go up for Thanksgiving week and bring home at least two apiece. And if we have time remaining, with nothing to do, there are pheasants and grouse that need to be thinned as well.
