I stil say it had a lot more to do with the very costly bonus point. USO didnt have as much grounds to stand with the bonus point rule so they went after this instead. Either one would help them get more clients drawn. Look at it this way, USO has a tag drawing service and if they didnt get that extra 113$ from the client they didnt get that bonus point. I Myself will say the bonus point price is a load of crap, and never had a problem with the 10% cap.
I didnt care less about the 10% and am willing to wait my turn to draw in any state but i think its out of line to make nonres flip bills by paying 113$ when they dont even hunt there that year and the resident guy will already have his cost covered on any other hunting he will do. I dont think AZ residents are that poor that they cannot afford more that what they are paying for thier tags to cover some F&G expenses.
I have friends in AZ who admit they think its wrong too, and agree on both accounts that AZ had some of this coming and didnt do anything to head it off.
Nonres hunters are not to blame, its one outfitter and the guys who think its just dandy that a big shot outfitter pushes things like outfitter preference in his own state and none of the NM residents didnt speak up that its not fair to allow rich outfitter clients better chances to draw tags. Well we all have ourselves to blame for not shouting out that we need to keep tradition and ethics in hunting, not money and big shot outfitters that lobby to get thier way.
Who is willing to form up and fight back against this guy. Start voicing your opinion against any outfitter preference in any state, Mostly NM where this guy does most of his work. Its amazing how the double standard works when he says its discrimination to put a nonres cap but worked a outfitter preference in his own state. Whats up??
I didnt care less about the 10% and am willing to wait my turn to draw in any state but i think its out of line to make nonres flip bills by paying 113$ when they dont even hunt there that year and the resident guy will already have his cost covered on any other hunting he will do. I dont think AZ residents are that poor that they cannot afford more that what they are paying for thier tags to cover some F&G expenses.
I have friends in AZ who admit they think its wrong too, and agree on both accounts that AZ had some of this coming and didnt do anything to head it off.
Nonres hunters are not to blame, its one outfitter and the guys who think its just dandy that a big shot outfitter pushes things like outfitter preference in his own state and none of the NM residents didnt speak up that its not fair to allow rich outfitter clients better chances to draw tags. Well we all have ourselves to blame for not shouting out that we need to keep tradition and ethics in hunting, not money and big shot outfitters that lobby to get thier way.
Who is willing to form up and fight back against this guy. Start voicing your opinion against any outfitter preference in any state, Mostly NM where this guy does most of his work. Its amazing how the double standard works when he says its discrimination to put a nonres cap but worked a outfitter preference in his own state. Whats up??
