ORIGINAL: furgitter
Thats true Jeff,we are supposed to be the smart ones.The ones that ACT,and dont REACT.An action is a movement which has been thaught out,planned,and executed.In my opinion there would be fewer wounded animals if hunters would learn to act.instead of reacting to a flash,a noise, a running animal out of range.
Thanks but its not just the wounded I'm refeering to...
Its the fact that these same hunters who cripple these animals decide its there best interest to shoot another.......
There goes the quality of hunting....and Outfittter Closures.....
Say a hunter shoots at a 240 class buck wounds it and it gets away and dies to its injury later...Its early in the season so it doesn't pass on its genectics during the rut...
2 days later the same hunter goes into the same area and this time dumps a 220 buck.......
Now we have problems.....2 big brutes down neverto pass on the genes..
This happens lots every year...
This can take years to recover....Even though their genes have been passed down from years past,what are the chances ( with all the pressure) that there oiffspring will ever get as big as there daddies..
The same senerio holds true for elk.....
The quality of hunting does start with us, because it is already a country wide issue....
Worrying about wolves taking over the country is certainly a concern but hunters doing this is a greater cause for concern because its country wide.....
Guiding outfits depend on big quality trophies for employment and Tourism Ind depends on it too....This is getting way too big to ignore.....