fishon
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Shouldn't removing hunters from the field be the last action taken to try and fix a deer herd? Now I am not against it if it is needed but consider what I wrote below.
What is really happening is we are removing hunters and their offspring, and these are people and families that we will NEVER get back, and people that will become disengaged in the process of hunting and that passed down heritage.
The long term effect of this is much more catastrophic then shooting a few to many bucks or hunting a couple days to long.
The big picture of things is we NEED ALL the hunters and sportsmen we can get to help fight the main issue which is the Right to keep and bare arms and the right to hunt and fish on public land.
We sit here a squabble over antler size and area demographics, so the answer is to punish our own?
Deer herds and buck numbers will ultimately be determined by mother nature. We can't control her we can only try and prepare for the hand she deals us, but we can involve the masses which can effect policy and procedure.
So why doesn't everyone take a deep breath and sit back and look at what is really important.
Understand that we could have 50 bucks per 100 doe's but if we lost most of the hunters getting to that point then the hunters left will likely lose the ability and right to hunt those bucks or won't be able to afford it.
We should be doing EVERYTHING possible to retain and recruit hunters rather than turn them away and kick them out.
I said before that 5 regions or 29 units or 100 sub-units makes no difference to me. Hunt them how you want but shouldn't we be doing things like.......
Shifting to less successful hunting methods? (weapon type)
Create opportunity for kids?
Move hunt dates to less successful times?
Kill more predators?
Feed more deer?
Transplant deer?
These are things that will save more bucks than removing hunters.
Removing the hunter is more detrimental long term and in the big picture than anything else we could possible do. We are going to look back in 20 years and realize that we have lost something we will never get back.
We have lost the future generations to carry on the fight that we are all so passionate about.
Any of you that don't see this I question your motives top to bottom.
We need hunters and lots of them or the big bucks you hope to grow by cutting them out will never be hunted by anyone other than the rich and the property owner.
We need hunters to march the capital, vote for policy, offset the anti's and donate their money for the cause.
If someone is removed form hunting why would they care to take a stand or donate their time, money and efforts?
How many of you will write the check or spend the energy to fight for hunting if you are never gonna be able to hunt or hunt every now and again?
None of you will. We need people and we need them in a big way.
Show me how we are gonna retain and recruit people and I will show you how we are gonna build a healthy deer herd.
But remove hunters and their voice and their dollars and I will show you how hunting public land will be a thing of the past.
Happy Holiday's to ALL of you and a Merry Christmas.
Tony Abbott
www.myfreehunts.com
The next buck to have a fawn will be the
1st.
What is really happening is we are removing hunters and their offspring, and these are people and families that we will NEVER get back, and people that will become disengaged in the process of hunting and that passed down heritage.
The long term effect of this is much more catastrophic then shooting a few to many bucks or hunting a couple days to long.
The big picture of things is we NEED ALL the hunters and sportsmen we can get to help fight the main issue which is the Right to keep and bare arms and the right to hunt and fish on public land.
We sit here a squabble over antler size and area demographics, so the answer is to punish our own?
Deer herds and buck numbers will ultimately be determined by mother nature. We can't control her we can only try and prepare for the hand she deals us, but we can involve the masses which can effect policy and procedure.
So why doesn't everyone take a deep breath and sit back and look at what is really important.
Understand that we could have 50 bucks per 100 doe's but if we lost most of the hunters getting to that point then the hunters left will likely lose the ability and right to hunt those bucks or won't be able to afford it.
We should be doing EVERYTHING possible to retain and recruit hunters rather than turn them away and kick them out.
I said before that 5 regions or 29 units or 100 sub-units makes no difference to me. Hunt them how you want but shouldn't we be doing things like.......
Shifting to less successful hunting methods? (weapon type)
Create opportunity for kids?
Move hunt dates to less successful times?
Kill more predators?
Feed more deer?
Transplant deer?
These are things that will save more bucks than removing hunters.
Removing the hunter is more detrimental long term and in the big picture than anything else we could possible do. We are going to look back in 20 years and realize that we have lost something we will never get back.
We have lost the future generations to carry on the fight that we are all so passionate about.
Any of you that don't see this I question your motives top to bottom.
We need hunters and lots of them or the big bucks you hope to grow by cutting them out will never be hunted by anyone other than the rich and the property owner.
We need hunters to march the capital, vote for policy, offset the anti's and donate their money for the cause.
If someone is removed form hunting why would they care to take a stand or donate their time, money and efforts?
How many of you will write the check or spend the energy to fight for hunting if you are never gonna be able to hunt or hunt every now and again?
None of you will. We need people and we need them in a big way.
Show me how we are gonna retain and recruit people and I will show you how we are gonna build a healthy deer herd.
But remove hunters and their voice and their dollars and I will show you how hunting public land will be a thing of the past.
Happy Holiday's to ALL of you and a Merry Christmas.
Tony Abbott
www.myfreehunts.com
The next buck to have a fawn will be the
1st.