MDF ASKS FOR HB469 VETO

[elkassassin]

How Much Money Would A QUACKER Tag Bring?

Or How About A Canadian Honker?

Yup. The frag mower is a great thing.

But if that's the standard, DU will be needing some tags

 

[slamdunk]

Yup. The frag mower is a great thing.

But if that's the standard, DU will be needing some tags

Waterfowl are Federal, Big Game are State......massive difference but you already know that.

 

[hossblur]

Of course those tags would fetch the same numbers, but who's going to do it, the DWR?
They don't even have enough man power to police the hunting units, let alone assign the manpower and time to conduct these multiple auctions all around the state at 8pm.
These auctions are bounced around the state to allow tags to be auctioned in those respective regions, it would be a catastrophe trying to auction them all in one online event.....my head hurts even trying to fathom how this would work since I myself work these auctions.
I'm working the SLC banquet auction tonight in fact.

Um yeah, the DWR.

How many IT guys do you think it would take? 5-10?

How many DWR guys are at the booths?

It's not 1993 anymore.

I'm not even at your banquet, I'll tell you how it goes.

Small handful of outfitters, each with a phone, bidding on a tag. At the end of a time limit, one of them won.

EVERYTHING else your doing is fundraising.

Never said auctioned in the region, I said the money from them should go there

My wife has teams on 3 continents, managing billions of dollars, every day. From a room in my basement, it's not done with people with notebooks anymore

 

[hossblur]

How Much Money Would A QUACKER Tag Bring?

Or How About A Canadian Honker?

Few years back there was a pink flamingo, lot of dudes on $40k airboats chased it.


Canada honker.(Homer)

 

[hossblur]

Waterfowl are Federal, Big Game are State......massive difference but you already know that.

 

[slamdunk]

Um yeah, the DWR.

How many IT guys do you think it would take? 5-10?

How many DWR guys are at the booths?

It's not 1993 anymore.

I'm not even at your banquet, I'll tell you how it goes.

Small handful of outfitters, each with a phone, bidding on a tag. At the end of a time limit, one of them won.

EVERYTHING else your doing is fundraising.

Never said auctioned in the region, I said the money from them should go there

My wife has teams on 3 continents, managing billions of dollars, every day. From a room in my basement, it's not done with people with notebooks anymore

I'm not saying it cannot be done, but there is a reason it's not being done by the Division themselves.
It's most definitely not because the Director of Wildlife is being bought off by the Special Interest Groups.
They may do some questionable things, but a conspiracy isn't one of them.

 

[elkassassin]

Wouldn't Have Been your Pink Flamingo,Right?

Few years back there was a pink flamingo, lot of dudes on $40k airboats chased it.


Canada honker.(Homer)

 

[Vanilla]

It's most definitely not because the Director of Wildlife is being bought off by the Special Interest Groups.
They may do some questionable things, but a conspiracy isn't one of them.

That’s a tough sell when the president of a group walks into a public Wildlife Board meeting with a ceremonial check and demands the Board goes against a DWR recommendation in favor of what he’s asking, and the Board does just that.

Tough sell when we’ve seen promise after promise if you just give us more with very little to nothing to actually show for it. Give us the expo. Give us the tags. Those 200 tags will bring people in…but have you noticed some of those 200 tags are now turkey and even cow elk? I wonder what hunts those replaced on the list of 200 and where those tags ended up being auctioned instead?

Like I said…too much funny business that most aren’t even paying attention to for me to buy the above. But that’s just what these folks keep hoping: People will just keep looking at the big racks and not the things going on behind the curtain.

 

[slamdunk]

That’s a tough sell when the president of a group walks into a public Wildlife Board meeting with a ceremonial check and demands the Board goes against a DWR recommendation in favor of what he’s asking, and the Board does just that.

Tough sell when we’ve seen promise after promise if you just give us more with very little to nothing to actually show for it. Give us the expo. Give us the tags. Those 200 tags will bring people in…but have you noticed some of those 200 tags are now turkey and even cow elk? I wonder what hunts those replaced on the list of 200 and where those tags ended up being auctioned instead?

Like I said…too much funny business that most aren’t even paying attention to for me to buy the above. But that’s just what these folks keep hoping: People will just keep looking at the big racks and not the things going on behind the curtain.

I can respect your position on it

 

[elkassassin]

But Niller!

There's Your Opportunity For A COW KILLER Hunt Or a Gobbler Hunt!

Remember:

You Got PEAY To Play!

That’s a tough sell when the president of a group walks into a public Wildlife Board meeting with a ceremonial check and demands the Board goes against a DWR recommendation in favor of what he’s asking, and the Board does just that.

Tough sell when we’ve seen promise after promise if you just give us more with very little to nothing to actually show for it. Give us the expo. Give us the tags. Those 200 tags will bring people in…but have you noticed some of those 200 tags are now turkey and even cow elk? I wonder what hunts those replaced on the list of 200 and where those tags ended up being auctioned instead?

Like I said…too much funny business that most aren’t even paying attention to for me to buy the above. But that’s just what these folks keep hoping: People will just keep looking at the big racks and not the things going on behind the curtain.

 

[hossblur]

I'm not saying it cannot be done, but there is a reason it's not being done by the Division themselves.
It's most definitely not because the Director of Wildlife is being bought off by the Special Interest Groups.
They may do some questionable things, but a conspiracy isn't one of them.

It's not been even considered because the WB has been owned lock, stock, barrel by the same special interest group the lobbyist that came up with the concept represents.

Yeah, it will take a massive effort now. Not because it's wildly successful for wildlife, but because you'd be battling lobbyists for restaurants, hotels, transit, manufacturers, outfitters, vendors.

None of which give a rats azz about conservation. All of which have financial interests in seeing those tags increase traffic to their private buisness.

You're right, it's not some grand conspiracy. It's buisness and economics using "conservation" as a brand to increase both.

 

[slamdunk]

C'mon up @hossblur, I've got a winning ticket set aside just for you

 

[hossblur]

C'mon up @hossblur, I've got a winning ticket set aside just for you View attachment 106554

Haa.

Last gun I won at a banquet was a marlin .22 I paid $500 in tickets for


Could have just bought 3of them


Plus today was app day. All those app fees add up for 3 of us

 

[elkassassin]

Looks Like It's Time For a TAURUS Hossy!

Haa.

Last gun I won at a banquet was a marlin .22 I paid $500 in tickets for


Could have just bought 3of them


Plus today was app day. All those app fees add up for 3 of us

 

[hossblur]

Looks Like It's Time For a TAURUS Hossy!

I ain't got plumber cash.

A Jennings is more in my price range.

Think @slamdunk would take my EBT card?

 

[elkassassin]

I Hear They Take Any Kind Of Money From Anybody!

I ain't got plumber cash.

A Jennings is more in my price range.

Think @slamdunk would take my EBT card?

 

[slamdunk]

 

[hossblur]

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@notdonhunting this is why despite my irritation with MDF asking for a veto, and my distain for the expo, MDF gets much less heat from me than $fw

 

[elkassassin]

Hey Hossy?

You Want Me To Quit Going To The EXPO?

@notdonhunting this is why despite my irritation with MDF asking for a veto, and my distain for the expo, MDF gets much less heat from me than $fw

 

[MrShane]

Few years back there was a pink flamingo, lot of dudes on $40k airboats chased it.


Canada honker.(Homer)

Good memory!
I was coffin hunting for Teal just outside of SaltAire one windy November day and Ol’ Pink Floyd came and landed about 60 yrds out.

 

[hossblur]

Hey Hossy?

You Want Me To Quit Going To The EXPO?

No.

Just don't support the group that lead to the failure, then ***** about the fail.


Kinda like buying a 5.9 Cummins and bitching about the trans.

 

[hossblur]

Good memory!
I was coffin hunting for Teal just outside of SaltAire one windy November day and Ol’ Pink Floyd came and landed about 60 yrds out.

That's awesome.

We had an Egyptian goose up here that dudes chased all season, pretty sure it escaped too

 

[elkassassin]

Ain't My Fault You Weren't Smart Enough To Get A 6 Speed Stick With The CUMMINS!

No.

Just don't support the group that lead to the failure, then ***** about the fail.


Kinda like buying a 5.9 Cummins and bitching about the trans.

 

[elkassassin]

I'll Quit Going To The EXPO Just For You Hossy Just As Soon As You Get The Other 49,000 People To Quit Going As Well!

Then You Can Stick a Feather In Your Hat!

No.

Just don't support the group that lead to the failure, then ***** about the fail.


Kinda like buying a 5.9 Cummins and bitching about the trans.

 

[hossblur]

I'll Quit Going To The EXPO Just For You Hossy Just As Soon As You Get The Other 49,000 People To Quit Going As Well!

Then You Can Stick a Feather In Your Hat!

You're trying to get 75,000 "opportunity" hunters to quit so you can road hunt 200" bucks in the basin.

One of us is wanting things to be the way they were once.

The other is a plumber

I

 

[elkassassin]

200" Bucks in the Basin!

That's a Mud Dobbers Wet Dream Right There!

You're trying to get 75,000 "opportunity" hunters to quit so you can road hunt 200" bucks in the basin.

One of us is wanting things to be the way they were once.

The other is a plumber

I

 

[hossblur]

200" Bucks in the Basin!

That's a Mud Dobbers Wet Dream Right There!

Nah, just been reading your deer fairy tales for going on 2 decades

 

[elkassassin]

If You Get In The Extreme NE Part of The State in an LE Unit You Might Be Getting Close To A Buck That Might Go 200"

And More Than Likely He'd Be On Private Property!

Nah, just been reading your deer fairy tales for going on 2 decades

 

[MrShane]

I'll Quit Going To The EXPO Just For You Hossy Just As Soon As You Get The Other 49,000 People To Quit Going As Well!

Then You Can Stick a Feather In Your Hat!

Count me in as one of the 49K that will never go.
Maybe we need a signed petition of >49K Utah Sportsman that don’t agree with and will never attend the Expo for the legislature and WB to hold in their hands?
Fight fire with fire?

 

[2lumpy]

Count me in as one of the 49K that will never go.
Maybe we need a signed petition of >49K Utah Sportsman that don’t agree with and will never attend the Expo for the legislature and WB to hold in their hands?
Fight fire with fire?

Go for it. Nothing nor anyone is stopping you.

Petitions and legally organized protests are not unheard of, since before the founding of the nation.

Just a word of historic relivence, you won’t be the first one that’s tried, when it comes to this specific subject. There’s a pretty good pile of trash stacked out here from others as frustrated as you, that’s been building up.

But……… if your petition is going to get anybody, with enough power or influence to bring change, you be able to articulate a better world that you’re going to create, for big game sport hunting. Remember, nobody is going to believe it’s about needing the meat, ever again.

 

[hossblur]

Go for it. Nothing nor anyone is stopping you.

Petitions and legally organized protests are not unheard of, since before the founding of the nation.

Just a word of historic relivence, you won’t be the first one that’s tried, when it comes to this specific subject. There’s a pretty good pile of trash stacked out here from others as frustrated as you, that’s been building up.

But……… if your petition is going to get anybody, with enough power or influence to bring change, you be able to articulate a better world that you’re going to create, for big game sport hunting. Remember, nobody is going to believe it’s about needing the meat, ever again.

This is why having guys like Lumpy around is valuable. We don't always agree, but damn the man has wisdom.

That last sentence is undeniable.

I don't like organized protest.

I'd prefer dudes just look at the facts, look at surrounding states, and realize, we have been played.

Drug dealers know, if you give "a little taste" for free, the addict will come back forever.

$fw uses the same model. Give tge Joes a little taste, and they will blindly follow along for "just a little more"

It's effective as hell.

Well said Lumpy. That last sentence sums up modern hunting 100%

 

[elkassassin]

But Hossy!

They haven't Gave Me A Taste Yet?

This is why having guys like Lumpy around is valuable. We don't always agree, but damn the man has wisdom.

That last sentence is undeniable.

I don't like organized protest.

I'd prefer dudes just look at the facts, look at surrounding states, and realize, we have been played.

Drug dealers know, if you give "a little taste" for free, the addict will come back forever.

$fw uses the same model. Give tge Joes a little taste, and they will blindly follow along for "just a little more"

It's effective as hell.

Well said Lumpy. That last sentence sums up modern hunting 100%

 

[elkhunterUT]

But Hossy!

They haven't Gave Me A Taste Yet?

That’s because you don’t really hunt-you just
B!+€£ and moan about it on MM

 

[elkassassin]

Ya!

That Must Be It!

That’s because you don’t really hunt-you just
B!+€£ and moan about it on MM