FFTJ
Loss of land is enven more of an issue for centerfire hunters, and that demand drives the leasing issue. The toatl number of Centerfire hunters and much less available land then archery hunters (who are also loosing land). I am including the quote from the previous post. Your statement that the
the land gets pounded by rifle hunters IS my point. Lessen the pressure and allow more access to the land by extending the hunting season for the greatest number of hunters.
THAT IS PRO HUNTING
The real problem is as follows: 1) There are way too many centerfire hunters on too little land for too short of time, 2) KDWP has reduced land open to centerfire hunting for the last 10 years according to the 5 year management plans (public record) for the public land holdings so we loose more prime state hunting land access, 3) NONE of the federal wildlife refuges in Kansas that are open big game hunting allow the use of centerfire of any kind including handgun, 4) 75,000 to 100,000 centerfire hunters (plus all the other unsuccessful method hunters that do not fill their tags and the upland and waterfowl hunters) are condensed onto that reduced land access. These four issues are what is driving hunting leasing in Kansas now.