ORIGINAL: eagle chickie
those figures are skewed like the rest the PGC publishes.... the decline was when comparing to last year's numbers...What the PGC failed to mention was last year's numbers were a decline of the previous year's and that a decline over the year before...is there anyone anywhere that thinks hunter numbers are actually going up???? The PGC themselves have published many reports in the Game News as to the over all decline in hunter numbers as the "hunting generation" ages and youth recruitment is not making the difference up.
Does that surprise you, hunters stop buying licenses because there are no deer on public land and that is a direct result of people like you intentionally shooting 5 button bucks. [:'(]