reswire...

If you read my other posts on this subject you will have an idea where I stand an my thoughts on what needs to be done. Saying that I will ask you a question.. why should everyone be punished for the acts of a few? why should access to land, which is not easy to come by for anyone these days unless you happen to own large tracts yourself, become even harder because of issues that revolve around a few? I completly am with yo uandknow yoru frustrations and I feel that there needs something to be done but why make it where the timber companies dont want to deal with anyone any more? Or they only lease to still hunting only groups, which there is nothing wrong with at all.. but have you ever tried to still hunt.. lets say a 1800 tract that was nothing but scrub and young pines that are still young enough that you can not see or walk through them? nt an easy thing to do... now lets say that the surrounding tracts were also cutover in various stages of growth... making still hunting hard, not impossible but difficult.. I know I had the pleasure of still hunting a place like I described for a few years.. yes we killed a few deer but not nearly what was needed to manage the heard or improve it in any way shape or form.. I am talking an average of 10 to 12 guys a day and a high of 3 deer killed in one day but on average 1 per saturday... not good odds.... that situation leads back to the herd becoming more than the land can handle...

I think that by fixing the loopholes and giving the conservation police something more to work with for enforcement reasons and giving the deer doggers a training season like the other dog hunters so that they might start to ease up"fox" hunting might be a good meet in the middle idea