ORIGINAL: BTBowhunter
ORIGINAL: bluebird2
Especially on game lands. Funds are always going to be an issue but we need to find a way.
The SGLs are the only public land managed specifically for wildlife. the carrying capacity on SGL is much higher than what the PGC will allow ,so improving the habitat will do nothing to improve hunting.
Oh really? Maybe you need to study the benefits of planting food plots. A decent food plot on marginal soil will still produce hundreds of times the forage as timber on the same ground. Easy and cheap to estabish? No, but possible on
some of our public ground? certainly.
Of course we all know that according to Bluetwist, nothing can be done and never will be done. Acording to Bluetwist, there's no point in hunting any more. The only thing he wants is to sit at his terminal and complain for the balance of his days
Is that outfitter planting/ maintaining food plots in the ANF? I thought that was illegal. My question is serious, I'm not detracting from the outfitter. If he is getting bucks like that out of the ANF, he is doing something right. And his rates are surprisingly low. Most midwest 3 day bowhunts for a 140 class deer you are looking at $1500+. Fully guided for $500 is about as cheap as they come. If you have any more info on how they are consistently getting bucks of that caliber from public land, lemme know. To harvest one trophy caliber deer from public land in PA is an accomplishment, and the NC mountains at that. To be geting them like that every year does raise an eyebrow.