>It's too bad that the game
>animals can't advance as rapidly
>as humans, then they would
>run and hide under a
>tree when the planes fly
>over, but they don't, and
>they won't ever.
>Humans are going to continue advancing
>and our ability to harvest
>the game animals is going
>to get better every year.
>How does the future look?
>Can we create more animals
>in a significant enough number
>to offset our advantages?
>
>Brian Latturner
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NO. The reason isn't that the animals need an advantage. The reason is simple, SUCCESS. That word has become so twisted, so turned that the entire sport is being destroyed by the people who "claim" to love it. Unless we are 100% every year, we failed. If we hunt Dall sheep, but don't know exactly where the rams are we failed. If we don't kill 30 inch bucks, we failed. If we are a guide service we must produce 100%, on "book" animals EVERY YEAR or we failed. If Doyle gets a 400 inch bull, my company needs a 401 of it failed.
It is human nature to want to be successful. HOWEVER, the modern "trophy" hunter is beyond that. His absolute "need" to be the best, regardless of money, time, methods has created a sport in which what is good for him far out weighs what is best for hunters, the game, the future, etc. Success to my grandpa meant food in bottles year after year, does, bucks, didn't matter, the kids were hungry. Nowdays. Nowdays dudes roam the counry paying 6 plus digits to kill an animal. They don't own knives, and the thought of eating that meat disgusts them to the point that they start "charities" where they "donate" it. They sell it as helping the future of the sport, but lets be real, it helps the guide, and outfitter. And for that "help" the buyer expects something in return. That pressure will always make the buisnesses do whatever they can to "succeed". When hunting became an industry, and not a heritage, we threw out any ethics, morals, ideals, etc. Buisnesses are not people. They exist to create profits, otherwise they don't exist, and if pushing every boundary creates profits it will be done. Why buy a plane, drones are cheaper. In the future real time satelite imagery will be cheaper. We sold our heritage to the highest dollar years ago, until that is taken back the animals we hunt will always be a diminishing resource, or WE will, because you can't have both and run a buisness. WE are the problem. WE wet ourselves at the chance to "get a tag" at an expo. The buisness model is the same as the drug dealer who gives you a little taste. WE wait for 6 months every year to see if we can get that one CWMU tag, then get a few days, during non peak buying time to try and pretend we are high rollers on private hunting units. WE then sit for 5 years and try to remember how great it was while the REAL highrollers bypass waiting periods and draws and do it year after year. When WE kinda wonder why, WE get the apologist who say "life isn't fair", "money has priviledge". Why? Because we want so baddly to be Denny, Doyle, Randy Ulmer, Jim Shockey, etc, that we let them do whatever they want, in exchange for "just a little taste". Until WE decide that hunting is a HERITAGE, and that success is based on skill and effort, not money and technology, we will watch year after year as the BUISNESS of killing, replaces hunting, and it does so by convincing WE, that it is good for the sport. Modern hunting is the only sport I know of where convincing the majority that giving up tags, access, etc so the minority can have there way is good for the sport. Is it good for golf for everyone to not do it so that a few can? ITS NOT. Good for the trophy hunter, the guide, and the outfitter is badfor you. Sitting home is bad for you. Planes are bad for you. Drones are bad for you. CWMU's are bad for you. Welfare tags are bad for you. LR is bad for you, but turn your head because when your waiting period is over, and after 20 years of putting in, you just might get your taste, then you can support the "trophy hunter" regardless of his methods!
"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun"