Public land is getting crazy crowded

[Strangerr]

Is it like this everywhere now or just my area?

 

[Trigger_talk]

There were way more people hunting on public land after COVID, and it stayed that way. I switched to hunting during the week and hunting at hard-to-get-to spots. Not the prettiest spots, but fewer people and better hunts for sure.

 

[Handyman]

  It just feels like everywhere is so much more crowded these days. Places that used to be perfectly quiet now just look like packed parking lots on the weekends.

 

[Howdy]

It wouldn't be so crowded if USFS opened the gates and bladed the roads.
Most of us are old and we aren't going to hike cross country over deadfalls on steep terrain.

 

[Alan]

Is it like this everywhere now or just my area?

Definitely everywhere

 

[Quark]

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Is it like this everywhere now or just my area?

I don't care what the demographers say we have to dang many people. The only reason to have more kids to keep the government Ponzi schemes going. Helena, is getting so bad with traffic it takes an hour to go ten feet up the road.

I don't hunt any more due to age and infirmaries but I've noticed because of hunting pressures that the hunting restrictions are getting tighter and tighter. I stop hunting about 30 years ago when I got inquired but the hunting restrictions were getting ridiculous even than. I have to think way to many people in the wilds hunting.

 

[Robbie C]

At least part of it stems from inane TV shows glorifying the state (I'm looking at YOU, Taylor Sheridan). Why can't that goofball have set his silly thing in someplace like California or Mississippi?

 

[cheeseburgersfearme]

Do you think the new corner hopping / lawsuit once its "legalized" will open up new ground for people to get away from other hunters?

 

[Quark]

Do you think the new corner hopping / lawsuit once its "legalized" will open up new ground for people to get away from other hunters?

Not sure but I would like to think so.