ORIGINAL: Kengston
ORIGINAL: BTBowhunter
What do you tell the people who have jobs and only get out maybe 3 days to hunt? What are you goanna tell the kids who hunt with these main majority of people? Believe it or not, these are the majority of hunters who buy their license. I hope the PGC will see it like this instead of catoring to the ones who don't bring them in the most income. Ask a child what they want to see? Deer of any kind. To cater to the minority is really bad bussiness. If a store doesn't sale a product of popularitythat the majoritywants, Are theygoanna shop there for that product? Not a chance.
Kengston, i sympathize with the guys who only get a few days to hunt but if they want to hunt, maybe they should spend a little off season time helping improve their odds for when that precious time finally arrives.
I respectfully disagree that three day hunters are the majority. At least I hope thats not true. I seriously believe the majority is happy.Anyone involved with marketing, opinion polls, sales, statistics, will tell you that unhappy voices are about 10 times more likely to speak and to speak louderand longer. Based on the approval versus disapproval I've seen, it seems to me that the majority is being served.
How many hunters do you see during the first two days and then only on weekends? Every where you see them. During the week very few. So I would think these are the majority ones.If not,You would see the majorityevery day I believe. You think the majority of the hunters wanted the does to be slaughtered every year? As it has been said, AR and the doe population are two different situations. You can have your AR bucks and the large numbers of doe also. So why the killing and large numbers of doe tags being sold?
I believe the people been speaking out for the last few years, Guess what, nothing has changed.
As what you have seen is greed. Plain and simple. You know the PGC is hurting for money. You think they can afford to go cold turkey without the revenue or a better plan to meet their money needs? Not a chance. You read about their monies problem. Screw the deer we need money. This is the truth. They got no plan now as they did before the greed sit in. Thats what getting them in trouble, Greed. The first couple years when they started the reduction wasn't thatbad, But to carry it on for five years now BTB is ridiculous. You goanna sale more permits than there is deer? No your not. But the PGC is and has been for the last few years. Look at just the doe tag sales. You think the deer herd can sustain this kind of assault on them year after year? Not a chance. I want to see more than a handful of deer when I go hunting.
AR alone is not solely responsible for the better bucks we're seeeing. It's also the doeharvest (especially the early harvest before the rut) that helps bring the buck/doe ratio into a more natural situation andpromotes breeding competition the way nature intended.
HR cant go on forever and we may behave arrived at the time where we need to level off the doe kill. If we havent yet arrived at that, I do think we're geting close. (JMHO)