ORIGINAL: quiksilver
Well, I'm looking at it from two different perspectives:
1.)Why do some states just have SO MANY hunters? I looked it over, and most of the states with gross hunter overpopulation - they're all highly populated areas that areloaded with public hunting areas. Odds are, that's where/how most guys got started. Cheap and easy entertainment.
2.) Despite the number of hunters actually dwindling, how is the pressure in some areas actually increasing? Deer horders sucking up large tracts of prime hunting land, property that's closed to all hunting, suburban sprawl, economic growth. Pike County would be the most obvious and extreme example. Lots of other places with similar problems, in a lesser degree.
It's very consistent, actually.One is the initial cause of the high hunter population. The other is the reason that the problem can't seem to correct itself (and is actually getting worse).
Seriously, I think you would be happier if you lived in another state.
Around me the only reason that places have been shut off to hunting is because 1) the people don't want the deer killed, which I have to respector 2) the land owners have had one too many bad experiences with hunters. Most of those bad experiences are of the leaving trash behind or bringing people with them or coming unannounced variety. Oh and I almost forgot the 4-wheeling on the property variety. That is a big one lately. No one around here is trying to lease their land out for $ or anything. Perhaps the problem isn't just too many hunters but too many dumb hunters???
Germ, don't worry. I have our turkey hunt all figured out. We are going to show up, you set up the TOOD, and we are done 30 minutes later. We'll fill in the rest as we go
