update,The August sales are down 9% from last August.To date that would be a %14 decrease in two years.Now they said hunters are buying later then in previous years so those numbers might increase a bit.On the other hand the casual deer or bear hunters are the ones most likely to buy late and also the majority of hunters we will lose.
I'm hoping it picks up because we'll be approching a 15-20% decrease by the time the license increase will be approved.I predict that will be the time we see the biggest decrease in license sales.The problem is till it's all said and done the PGC might be farther in the hole even after the license increase.There's no easy answers here and I hope the bleeding stops soon or we might have Eddie and debernliberal running our show.