Hunting Off the Grid
You can hunt food-plot whitetails in nearly every corner of America, but the most memorable hunts are those that you earn - in miles hiked and time spent in solitude.
These are the places where you can pack your hunting camp on your back and have thousands of acres of public land to roam at will. And the happy news is that the hunting - for elk or mule deer or even wild turkeys - often gets better the farther from civilization you roam. AdvertisementRelated PhotosSUBMIT YOUR PHOTOSADVERTISEMENTAdvertisement |
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Having grown up on the Rogue and Illinois river I appreciate the wildness and beauty of southern Oregon...But, my son, my wife and I just drew coveted bull elk tags for Arizona's unit 27 late hunt. This remote and rugged area is wedged between the White Mt and San Carlos Apache reservations and the New Mexico border. It contains the the oldest officially designated primitive area in the U.S. and monster bulls! Yippeee!
A friend and I have hunted a few "pay to hunt" locations and we always called it going to the grocery store. It is not really hunting if there is a fence around you - even a big fence. You can't take a trophy from behind a fence, it's just a store bought rack.
tybostev5 - Good call on the Gila. That's a place I badly want to hunt someday. Honestly, there's no shortage of these back-of-beyond hunting paradises. I'm thinking the upper Grand Mesa of Colorado, Book Cliffs of northeast Utah, parts of the High Sierras (the scenery is better than the hunting), Wyoming's Wind Rivers, Washington's High Cascades (the High Buck hunt is more high than buck), Idaho's Snake River rim.
All public land, all stunning country, all places where you can hunt for days and see very few other folks.
Keep dreaming!
Andrew McKean
Espicially unit 16 b wher there are no roads and you have to back pack or use pack animals
I think that the gila and/or the lincoln national forests of my home state New Mexico should be included, as both offer superb Elk and Mule Deer hunting as well as great trout fishing
I have said this before and it bears repeating; for me, being out in the field feeds me in ways that I cannot explain. Indeed, if it must be explained, it can not be understood. I believe that that inner aspect of many of us on this site is what makes us close; we feel a kinship with each other, real hunters that we have never laid eyes on, but we have communicated with each other from areas deep in our souls. We are the ones most blessed, we understand.
I know no other way! Nice article, There is some tribes in Asia that believe hard long hikes wash away some of your sin's. I don't know about the sin part but it does something to my inner being that makes it feel more positive & alive & feeling of achievement is what makes it all worth wile.
Good to remind everyone there is more to hunting than just sitting in stand. Got my imagination going dreaming of future wilderness hunts.
later,
charlie
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Good to remind everyone there is more to hunting than just sitting in stand. Got my imagination going dreaming of future wilderness hunts.
later,
charlie
I know no other way! Nice article, There is some tribes in Asia that believe hard long hikes wash away some of your sin's. I don't know about the sin part but it does something to my inner being that makes it feel more positive & alive & feeling of achievement is what makes it all worth wile.
Espicially unit 16 b wher there are no roads and you have to back pack or use pack animals
tybostev5 - Good call on the Gila. That's a place I badly want to hunt someday. Honestly, there's no shortage of these back-of-beyond hunting paradises. I'm thinking the upper Grand Mesa of Colorado, Book Cliffs of northeast Utah, parts of the High Sierras (the scenery is better than the hunting), Wyoming's Wind Rivers, Washington's High Cascades (the High Buck hunt is more high than buck), Idaho's Snake River rim.
All public land, all stunning country, all places where you can hunt for days and see very few other folks.
Keep dreaming!
Andrew McKean
A friend and I have hunted a few "pay to hunt" locations and we always called it going to the grocery store. It is not really hunting if there is a fence around you - even a big fence. You can't take a trophy from behind a fence, it's just a store bought rack.
I have said this before and it bears repeating; for me, being out in the field feeds me in ways that I cannot explain. Indeed, if it must be explained, it can not be understood. I believe that that inner aspect of many of us on this site is what makes us close; we feel a kinship with each other, real hunters that we have never laid eyes on, but we have communicated with each other from areas deep in our souls. We are the ones most blessed, we understand.
I think that the gila and/or the lincoln national forests of my home state New Mexico should be included, as both offer superb Elk and Mule Deer hunting as well as great trout fishing
Having grown up on the Rogue and Illinois river I appreciate the wildness and beauty of southern Oregon...But, my son, my wife and I just drew coveted bull elk tags for Arizona's unit 27 late hunt. This remote and rugged area is wedged between the White Mt and San Carlos Apache reservations and the New Mexico border. It contains the the oldest officially designated primitive area in the U.S. and monster bulls! Yippeee!
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