Take whatever you want from this, but to blame the recent decrease in license saleson HR is yet anotherreach.

Did you expect anything different from the Gloom'n Doom brigade? Rather than learning to think for themselves, or looking into things for some factual background on which to base theiropinions, they are perfectly content to be led around by the nose by those who are adept at making mountains outta molehills. Constant and repetitive preaching ofNegativism tends to attract those who are alwaysready to believe the worst and are ready to be exploited by those in the pulpit.

Baby boomers make up the single largest demographic of current hunters. Many of us are now 60 years old, according to a recent study, the age at which most hunters start to hang it up. Losing hunters is not something to look forward to, but with fewer hunters being recruited to take our places, it appears to be an irreversible trend.

Whenthose of us now in our 50s and 60sgot old enough to hunt, it was allwe looked forward to. No video games to occupyour time; no year-round kids sports like we have now;far fewercustody scuffles between mom and dad, or the dozens of other things competing for time spent afield.Mix in changingsocietalattitudes about firearms and hunting, a loss of nearbyhuntable land and many other factors, while we're hagglin' over loss of hunters and it becomes evident manyissues besides fewer deerare at work here.

When you are inclined to blame everything on one agency to begin with, must make it much easier just to ignore all other factors and focus all ofyour attention on that one bogeyman, apparently?