What a joke, Colorado really had a good thing going. If Mother Nature would cooperate with a string of a normal winters for a few years it would bounce back. But pushing the seasons back 5 days is a huge deal. Don?t worry somebody will get on here and post ?don't know what all the doom and gloom is about? with a picture of their spindly 24? 3x4. Letting us know that it's not a monster, but the best one they could find, how they were seeing 5-6 bucks a day, and the hunting was pretty good. Give me a break. Whoever?s running this show, and anyone that thinks they are actually making good decisions doesn't have a clue imo. The same can be said for Idaho and Utah. Mule deer are walking on thin ice in all three of these states. And you sure as hell don't need a biology degree to figure out the mule deer need any help we can give them. Later season?s, more tags, better gadgets/equipment than ever before, cars, trains, predators, development. We better start taking this game seriously and use some common damn sense. Every time you turn around someone?s asking how we recruit more young hunters. Huh? Really? For what? The product you are selling sucks. Why would a new young hunter want to get into this crap? It cost a fortune, deer herds are in a nose dive, and quality for the average joe is pathetic. Spend your money on a boat, sled, quad. Who wants to raise a die hard mule deer hunter this day and age? Sure, anybody can get a job making lots of money and go buy a trophy. Ya, that's hard core. Better off moving to the Midwest and becoming a whitetail freak. The whole damn thing makes me sick. I hate seeing what's going on. Look at pheasant hunting for example, Idaho, Utah it used to be a big deal, everyone use to go out. Old, young, new hunters, whatever. Now what? Well you would think strict predator control, and improving habitat would be at the top of the list... nope, let's spend our money and resources releasing pen raised birds. The people making decisions regarding our wildlife species need to check themselves, they hide behind their charts, graphs, and biology degrees like its gospel. They are doing a piss poor job! Can you imagine where we would be if it wasn?t for RMEF, mule deer foundation, ducks unlimited, pheasants forever, etc. for hell sakes, do the state organizations have any positive effect? Sorry, rant over, it's just getting old, I'm tired of hearing the same excuses over and over. If it's not working try something new. Maybe stop hammering the deer from August to January, or maybe we should just stick with the people who have the degree, and kill all of the mature bucks in November before CWD gets them. That seems like a good call, especially since we don't even completely understand the disease. Unreal.
