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What state has a good hunting tourism/game ranch industry, and state regulations that support it?
A state like Texas is a good example. There are lots of game ranches, and is easy for out of staters to come in and patronize. Not much red tape even if you dont have gun license or hunting license. Texas even has some game ranches that import animals from other continents for you to hunt.
What other states are like that? I want to hunt feral hog, but I dont mind deer. I like deer meat more.
Game ranches are breeding grounds for chronic wasting disease. It's no coincidence many of the western states have major problems with chronic wasting (CO and WY are especially bad).
Hawaii for hogs, NJ for deer. Generous long season (into February?).
In NY, some counties like westchester have unlimited Doe tags. Take all you want. No need for a ranch here.
Game ranches are breeding grounds for chronic wasting disease. It's no coincidence many of the western states have major problems with chronic wasting (CO and WY are especially bad).
It's in Montana too. The muley I took was in a CWD zone. I took it to Fish and Game to have them test for CWD. While there the biologist I spoke with suspects our incidence (up in north MT) came from Canada.
Right now the rate of incidence is 3% or lower. They said if the sampling rates hit 5% they'll be freaking out. They just discovered a positive elk last month too.
While I can't speak for Montana hunting tourism- I do know it's big money. As compared to other states I don't know.
I do know this- where I was hunting there must've been a joint operation between the CA and WA National guard- cause I saw an incredible number of out of state trucks and hunters on the northern border. The were mainly hunting public BLM which is fine, but what struck me was seeing all these guys harvest TINY bucks and a bunch of does.. One guy had a 4x4 muley with no more than a 9" spread and he was getting it mounted!
Man- these folks spend $600 just for the out of state big game deer tag, all that $$ on fuel, food etc and take a tiny buck that hasn't even bred yet.. Blows my mind..
If that's the kind of 'tourism' we're going to get, well wow....
Try to meet up with locals in Hawaii for some federal hog fun.
You don't need a game ranch to bag those invasive dangerous pests. Those jokers are everywhere.
Should be really easy to find.
Not sure the problem with Texas hunts, they have the hog thing all wrapped up in a bow (bad pun) for weekend warriors like me. It seems that way; will have a fuller report by next summer if I can carry it through.
Cost seems low, and you bunk in a bunkhouse a couple days and take dinner at the ranch. So, I don't care if it's cornbread, black beans and rice a couple days. At worst. I'm sure there's bacon in there too, in every sense of the phrase!
Check your weapons at the airline. I have Pelikan-like travel cases for a handgun and rifle, paperwork is easy enough and you'll pay fees for extra bags, but so what. Ammo stays at the ranch, bought there or shipped by you which is easy.
Take couple three days, with night and day hunts from blinds mostly so they don't have guests wandering the place at night, and negligent shootings. I see most require hunter orange which is probably for the ranch's safety (and your own) vs. state law...but who knows.
If it's your land you can destroy hogs using most any method you want, but controlled hunts they keep it humane I'm virtually sure with certain requirements of the weapons used. Wow, that seems fair enough to me. While not really a "hunt" per se, an arguable point, humane destruction seems the decent thing.
In short, it should be a NON hard-core dip into the water, and maybe (wild guess) $< 1,000 for 3-5 days of hog hunts w/ranch guides. I probably get a dressed hog out of it, too, in some cases. So what? Problem solved.
You can hunt in PA and as far as I know a non resident hunting license gives you access to the millions of acres of game lands controlled by the PA Game Commission. Don't expect to be shooting fish in a barrel, you actually need to hunt. Crazy, I know....
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