Luke_with_a_lab
Well-known member
Hey everyone,
I apologize in advance for a bit of a rant. As I sit here i'm thinking about all the posts I have read where everyone is talking about "the old days and how much better they were" I wonder were they better or does everyone always just think the old days are better? That very well may be true and I'm not here to debate that too much. However, nowadays it seems that there are no units or hunt areas that are still undiscovered but I continue to find quality elk hunting in areas that are "high pressure". Additionally there are almost yearly additions of land via the RMEF or some similar organization. It is worrisome to me though that every year we also see more out of state hunters in obscure places, likely via due to tools such as Gohunt and Onx. One has to wonder with the advent of Youtube, social media, and hunting apps making western public land hunting so visible what the future will look like? Every year there are an uncountable number of new hunting shows on Youtube posting their elk hunt out west. My question is, are all of these hunting shows in the end going to have a negative or positive effect on the quality of elk hunting on public land out west? I can see pros and cons, on one hand there are more hunters but on the other hand more hunters equates to more money to conservation and potentially land purchases via land boards or RMEF. Is this a topic that has been discussed much on the larger hunting shows and do hunting content creators have a certain responsibility to address the potential Issue?
I apologize in advance for a bit of a rant. As I sit here i'm thinking about all the posts I have read where everyone is talking about "the old days and how much better they were" I wonder were they better or does everyone always just think the old days are better? That very well may be true and I'm not here to debate that too much. However, nowadays it seems that there are no units or hunt areas that are still undiscovered but I continue to find quality elk hunting in areas that are "high pressure". Additionally there are almost yearly additions of land via the RMEF or some similar organization. It is worrisome to me though that every year we also see more out of state hunters in obscure places, likely via due to tools such as Gohunt and Onx. One has to wonder with the advent of Youtube, social media, and hunting apps making western public land hunting so visible what the future will look like? Every year there are an uncountable number of new hunting shows on Youtube posting their elk hunt out west. My question is, are all of these hunting shows in the end going to have a negative or positive effect on the quality of elk hunting on public land out west? I can see pros and cons, on one hand there are more hunters but on the other hand more hunters equates to more money to conservation and potentially land purchases via land boards or RMEF. Is this a topic that has been discussed much on the larger hunting shows and do hunting content creators have a certain responsibility to address the potential Issue?