KSWild is right on with what he is saying.

I was working last week delivering ice with a old codger that had 101 stories of being on vacation. He was telling me a story about being in a gambling parlor and winning two tickets - $50 each to hunt on Ted Nugents ranch some place. All he knew for sure was that the guy owned everything for about 20 miles in any direction. I would guess that would be Texas.

He said he went by train to see the hunting lodge and a guy spoke from behind him and said what a beautiful deer mount that was, and he agreed that it was nice. Ted was the guy standing behind him and he said that he had shot that buck the previous year and that there were a lot of other nicer bucks on the ranch then that one.

They got to talking and Ted told him that he was originally from Meadville and that his wife was from Titusville PA. This guy said that Ted moved to Michigan when he was 15. All I can figure is that his dad must have had a good job or something.
There was a lot of Pennsylvania transplants working on his ranch there. After some introductions, he ate supper with Ted and when he went to leave, Ted asked him where he was going. He told him he had to catch the train back to the town where he came from so he could go sleep in his motel room that night. Old Ted told him not to worry about it and put him up for free at his hunting lodge.

The next day, he wished him luck and told him that he hoped that the guy won one of the hunts that he drew a chip for. Well he didn't win, but Ted told him that if his name was drawn, and it was at number 16 and there is only 10 hunts available, that his name might come up anyways - because some people always falls out before the time comes to go hunting anyways and even if his name was not selected to go hunting with him, not to worry because the next year, he could ask to go hunting there for a reduced rate - just because his name was on the list for the year before.

So my opinion of him is that when he is in front of a camera, he is a real good showman and he knows how to put on a show. But when you get him in a room, one on one, you meet an entirely different person.

I do not agree with Sunday hunting or not having any rules.
I have neighbors that would hunt deer in Pennsylvania into extinction if you would let them. Just ask anyone about the deer situation in the northern tier states in the central part of Pennsylvania and their reply would be - what deer?

The reason we employ game biologists is to see how many deer per a square mile that our land can sustain. When that target goal is met, then we have to cut back hunting, so we can preserve deer for future generations. As far as that goes, when you get rid of the deer, the turkeys takes over. When you get rid of the small game habitat the deer takes over and when you get rid of the predators, the small game takes over. When you get rid of the people who hunts the predators - the predators takes over.

Its a vicious cycle and the only way to keep some sort of checks and balances is to ensure that every head is counted and every game animal is counted and to make sure that no one harvests more then their share. This is called management.

When you own all the land, you can make the rules.
In places like Pennsylvania where the state owns some of the land and the government owns some of the land and the timber companies owns some of the land and the farmers owns some of the land. Conflicts arise when any one group wants to preserve the deer or eradicate the deer. Neither group wins when each of them are screaming that they want this or that and they want it right now.

The people with the deepest pockets are the ones that gets everything their way because of the graft and corruption, and these days that is the insurance companies. You hardly ever see a road killed deer anymore and you hardly see a car with collision damage anymore from deer. At the same time, you hardly see deer anymore either.

When you open a place up and you tell everyone to shoot as much as you like, in a year or two, you will have to go to a museum to see a deer. It's already happening in some counties and as the deer population is being wiped out there, the hunters just moves further south until they end up at the Mason Dixon line or out into OHIO...

Maybe TED ought to attack this one step at a time, in a well thought out manner and not all at once, in one fell swoop.
You won't ever get him in the white house because of his sex scandals and his draft dodging efforts from his youth, but you might get him into the house of representatives if we could just get the government to free Rod Blagojevich..

The only thing Rod did wrong was to get caught.