ORIGINAL: whitetailsoldier
hey Greg H,
just curious...How has hunting rules and regulations changed since you started way back when. I always seem to envy the days where you would hunt for food instead of sport. I suppose most of us do it for both but I still think it would be cool.
Do I look like a pioneer to you? Maybe I do, but I just turned 50.[:-]
I started out as a sport hunter because it was fun and I was 10, carrying a BB gun. It was my parents job to supply the food. No concern of mine. As I got older, my mom learned how to cook venison better, and I came to enjoy it. When I moved out on my own, I supplied my meat with it.Then they started with the bonus tags, I became both meat and sport hunter. I still am to this day.
The rules and regs have changed more in the last 5 years than they did the previous 30. I have to print out rules and regs every year and read them closely. They have gotten more confusing than ever. The good part though is that you have more oppertunity to hunt deer than you used to. You can almost shoot as many as you want in a season compared to one or two like seasons past.