No need to be bitter about the matter. It's simple enough for Mr. Neville to post that answer if that is the case. I'm sure he's aware of this thread. I know that he has posted on other forums.
Bitter? Me? That was done tongue in cheek. Thats what the
is for. I'll let the rest of the audience here decide who's bitter here.
By the way, how far do you venture from your car and the road to put up your tree stand and hang your pee bottle? Most bow hunters I know don't venture very far into the big woods, they generally hunt on private farms.
In fact, I have to walk 2 1/2 miles into the game lands I hunt to get to the area I like togrouse hunt. I rarely see any bow hunters. In the last 4 years I haven't seen a soul. In the past when I came into the vacinity of a treed bow hunter he made sure I saw him and I politely circumvented him to put him at ease.
There was the day when I made it a point to get at least 1-2 miles in to hunt. Since a bad case of pneumonia left me with permanent irreversible heart damage in early 2005 I dont go far at all. When bowhunting out west in Colorado, it was part ofour daily routine to get in 5-6 miles every day on foot. In Pa, most of my remote hunting has been in the ANF and there are truly very few places where a hunter can get much more than 2 miles in but I did it all the time when I was healthy. I can also say that the number of hunters I saw went down drastically after the first half mile and the odds were about 50/50 that encountering another hunter more than a mile back meant I had found a lost hunter.
Your full of smart a$$ remarks that have little substance. By the way, where did you arrow that buck in the photo? Was it in the big woods or some farmers woodlot, or a preserve?
take a chill pill, have a beer, go punch a punching bag, take a few deep breaths, do whatever but calm down.And then maybe once you calm down you can show us what "substance" is because I havent seen much from you yet. The "substance" of your posts has been that you hate the PGC. OK we get it!
That buck was shot on private land in Illinois. Oh, andby the way, my favorite stand there is just under a mile from the truck.
I expectAugust's figures on license sales to be less than 40% for residents. But as I said, the continual loss of 6% each year should be of considerable concern to the agency. Someone within the agency or some group of people should betasked to mend that loss. Perhaps Joe Naville will address that subject in the interim.
Well, we'll all know in just a few more days won't we? I will refrain from making any predictions other than to say that your comments afterward will either be derogatory and counterproductive if the trend is behind last year or you will claim some new conspiracy if the numbers dont support your predictions made above.
I dont blame Joe Neville for not responding to you. You obviously arent looking for the information, you're looking for fodder for your USP spin machine. I'm sure that when the figures are available, Joe Neville will get them out quickly. I'm just as sure that he's well aware of this thread but Id bet he has probably heard this proverb:
"Never try to teach a pig to sing, it merely frustrates you and annoys the pig."