How well seasoned are you?

[Mtn_Infantry]

I’m in my 30s, but I don’t plan on hunting Africa until my 40s. The wife and I are using disposable income for family building. Additionally, I have been building points in western states for 8 years. I would like to burn some of them first. Hoping for a decent mule deer or spring black bear hunt to start.

You might want to look at Idaho if you can pull a tag from the queue. With 8 years of points you should be able to draw a fairly decent tag depending upon the state. I've got several states I've been chasing the more premium tags, with some of them going on 16/17 years.

My advice to you is create a short term, intermediate, and long term application strategy. Just be careful because the states can change how they do tags at the drop of a hat and like in my case and a few others on here 16/17 years of points might be worth nothing other than funding a states F&G Dept. as we're so far off max points and they're only awarding max points. Just some insight from someone who's also in their mid to late 30's and has been applying since the mid 2000's

 

[Killo]

I was 75 on my first Cape Buffalo hunt. 2 days ago I returned from my second buffalo hunt; I'm 77 and starting to plan my next.

Bravo

 

[DillonG]

You might want to look at Idaho if you can pull a tag from the queue. With 8 years of points you should be able to draw a fairly decent tag depending upon the state. I've got several states I've been chasing the more premium tags, with some of them going on 16/17 years.

My advice to you is create a short term, intermediate, and long term application strategy. Just be careful because the states can change how they do tags at the drop of a hat and like in my case and a few others on here 16/17 years of points might be worth nothing other than funding a states F&G Dept. as we're so far off max points and they're only awarding max points. Just some insight from someone who's also in their mid to late 30's and has been applying since the mid 2000's

I’ve been putting in for WY, CO, and I have a couple years on MT. I would definitely like to hunt bears in ID. I have not looked into the draw odds for any species for non-residents in ID.