Yeah, i'm not a fan of the direction that conversation went. I am fine with the season dates but doubt it will stop there. I bet this gets brought back up again eventually. Especially since enforcing it will turn into a can of worms. Seems like WB/DNR are in favor of "putting the hunt, back in hunting" whatever that means? I liked how Mr. Heaton talked about coming up with a "technology committee" and maybe talk about all the other advances we have that might not be "fair chase" like high powered rifles/muzzle loader/bows, range finders, optics, etc. People are funny when they throw out the "fair chase" card when it comes to trail cameras but don't blink and eye when they are killing their under-developed buck every year with great optics, high powered rifle, ATV, range finder, etc. Seems really hypocritical to me. The people in charge seem to be in favor of more "opportunity" and "rules" because it means more tag and law enforcement revenue. If they make hunting harder and put more rules on it they can oversell tags because they know people won't have a 100% success rate. With more rules there's a higher chance you will break them and get a ticket. Its really all about the money seems like to me as in most cases. If they really cared about our natural resources (specifically the deer) they would require mandatory harvest reporting, sell the right amount of tags and assume 100% harvest with those tags, spend more time working on habitat/winter kill/feed/predation. They would also likely need less DNR employees and brand new trucks driving around. See the correlation on why they blame technology for all the problems? The "opportunity" advocates will disagree with me but I don't see how this change helps anything.
