ORIGINAL: Cougar Mag
Not at all. Just you have a nice thing going and want to keep it to yourself. I am mostly a bowhunter. And mostly like traditional. But the bottom line is, gun hunters pay tax just like you. If the area can't substain hunting, then let the population rebound. No matter if you are gun hunter or bow hunter
Paying taxes should have nothing to do with it, deer populations should. Perhaps bowhunting only is keeping the population at the correct density. Based on your post I quoted above, it sounds like if gun hunters can't hunt then bowhunting should not be allowed either. Hopefully wise decisions will prevail and if gun hunting is warranted in those 4 counties, then it should be allowed. Another scenario is possibly some influential people is the reason the NRA is involved.
Not quite. the place is little different than most. No crops, straight up and down mountains. There is no data showing bowhunting is keeping anything in check there. Like most of WV, you will see much more does than bucks. Unlike most places these days in the states, nature keeps the population at the correct density. No urban spraw. Deer are very hard to hunt there. If they get pressured, they will just go over to the next mountain.
Where here in MD, urban spraw has knocked the deer density out of wack.
One would have to know the place and hunt it to actually understand. But I agree with some of your post. And the bottom line is, the deer need to recover and have for the most part.
Now, here is the kicker. Personally, I would like for it to stay bowhunting only. I would like MD to be bowhunting only. But thats my own selfish desires. I wouldn't mind if all those 4 counties in southern WV was traditional stick only. More selfish desires. But thats not fair or right.