FirstFreedom
Moderator
If you know or can guesstimate fairly closely, please rank these states in order from highest to lowest, by
-Ratio of open public hunting land acreage divided by number of hunters (hunting licenses in a given year). Looking for the most wide open spaces and least likely to run into people/other hunters while hunting public land. I'll go ahead and start off by ranking them in my own best guesstimate:
1. Nevada
2. Montana
3. Wyoming
4. Idaho
5. Utah
6. Oregon
7. Washington
8. Colorado
I want to rank those 8, and I'm probably farily close, but it's gonna depend on both how much public land is available, the population of the state, the number of visiting hunters and resident hunters both. Do I have Montana & Wyoming backward? Is there a dark horse that should be higher on the list due to lots of public hunting lands or lotsa city slickers without as many rural hunters, or what?
Anyone have the actual stats for any given state on total public land acreage, or total # of licenses sold?
-Ratio of open public hunting land acreage divided by number of hunters (hunting licenses in a given year). Looking for the most wide open spaces and least likely to run into people/other hunters while hunting public land. I'll go ahead and start off by ranking them in my own best guesstimate:
1. Nevada
2. Montana
3. Wyoming
4. Idaho
5. Utah
6. Oregon
7. Washington
8. Colorado
I want to rank those 8, and I'm probably farily close, but it's gonna depend on both how much public land is available, the population of the state, the number of visiting hunters and resident hunters both. Do I have Montana & Wyoming backward? Is there a dark horse that should be higher on the list due to lots of public hunting lands or lotsa city slickers without as many rural hunters, or what?
Anyone have the actual stats for any given state on total public land acreage, or total # of licenses sold?