ORIGINAL: blkpowder
Listening to a discussion at my local sportsman's club,prompted me to ask this question.
[/align]It brought me to remember, years ago. How a representative from both the Pa Fish Comm. & Game Comm. would come
[/align]on a quarterly basis to the club. Jim Mehaloc and Don Hyatt.These gentlemen are no longer with us.They would keep us informed
[/align]on how things are going within there commission, any up coming changes being proposed and always asking and taking notes on our input. The biggest one the older members remember. When Jim would come down and ask our input on upcoming hunting seasons and bag limits. First there was an open floor discussion. Jim would go on,they want to change this, add that, cut back on this.Explain why, give his views then take our questions. Then we actually had Jim leave the room, took our vote. Called Jim back into the room and presented him a copy of our vote and signed by our club officials. Then Jim would take our vote and if any suggestions back to his supervisor. There is no doubt, the biggest negative you hear, the PGC is not listening to us or don't care about us. I'm new on this forum, but in this short time. I've seen some very intelligent,level headed people present and back there comments. BTB,Doug,bowtruck and others. Can this be done? I also hope to hear from RSB.
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I too attend a high percentage of the Sportsmen club meetings in my county. I have missed very few of the County Sportsmen meetings where each club in the County sends a delegate or two. I generally only attend individual club meetings though when they invite me. I used to try attending some of them but many of them are only sportsmen clubs in name so they can get a liquor license. When I would show up for their meetings they never talked about any sportsmen business anyway and their meetings consisted of financial business, or who was going to tend bar during which hours and days.
I jump at every possible chance to attend meetings with hunters, all they have to do is let me know they want a program or that they just want me to be there to answer questions.
Most of our officers are more then happy to come out and meet with hunters. As RWJ already pointed out just call and ask.
As for many of the comments you just heard on this board though I will have to say that there are some people that will never accept anything that anyone from the Game Commission has to say because we don’t always tell people what they want to hear and instead do our best to just tell them the truth.
R.S. Bodenhorn