Originally Posted by
M.Magis
I didn't say increased limits, but liberal limits. Yes, they've been liberal for a while, but few people have been using many antlerless tags. Last year they extended the deadline for the early season antlerless tags to include gun season. That right there should be an obvious reason for an increase.
Again, you think you know certain things as facts, but I doubt you do. How do you know that most outfitter clients aren't shooting does? You can't possibly know that. The fact is, those are the numbers.
I said the one's I know aren't shooting does.I don't see many folks driving in from out of state and paying the high lease fees to shoot something they could kill in their home state, but I know some do. For some reason you can't comprehend the obvious. I'll make it easier for you. Say Wayne National forest is now leased property and no longer public hunting. How many people are now going to be hunting that at $1500.00 each compared to when it was free to hunt? Less right!? Of course yes. O.K. , so now less people are hunting it, so also ( obviously) less deer are being taken, therefor, your deer harvest for Wayne National forest just went down. Now multiply that by 250 outfitters! Get it? For some reason, I doubt that you do.