RE: Kansas Hunters getting screwed
Need more proof that commercialism is taking over Kansas deer hunting?
Fewer residents bought tags last year for many reasons. IMO this includes areas that have been over hunted reducing deer numbers, and leasing locking resident hunters out of a place to hunt. Fewer NR tags are available this year, 462 to be exact. They base the total number of NR tags off a percentage of the number of resident tags sold the year before. This year there was an increase in the number of tags applied for(3629 more) 20620 instead of 16991 applied for last year. NR hunters only accounted for 632 tags of that increase. Who applied for the other 3000 tags? T-tag applications went from 5827 last year to 8824 this year. Not hard to see where the increase came from is it? That means that half of all the available NR tags will go to Kansas landowners and outfitters this year. I feel sorry for the NR hunters who do self guided hunts, they are effectively being forced out of the game as well.