Originally Posted by
5A_Archer
First off, I feel bad they got you for the life-membership USP.
Second, the PGC arent that ones that pull the trigger, the sportsmen are. The only thing the USP is out for is themselves. They could care less about the hunters. For an organization to want the PGC to fund their own litigation, instead of the general fund is ridiculous, especially since the USP knows that the more the PGC pays for these frivilous lawsuits, the less money they have towards and for us hunters. They say they arent for merging the PGC and DCNR, but thats exactly where it is heading. Thats ok though, the 700 members the USP boasts are just as clueless as the leadership.
my .02
a lot of us DONT PULL TRIGGER ON DOE but others do.those others are ones that have doe down to very low numbers.they just dont care.
so as long as you can kill 5 doe,or 3 doe etc,it will continue until few are left.
which is happening in wmu2g.USP has more than 700 members.at 1 table for weekend in clinton county we signed up well over 200.it is HARD to get people to pay 20 dollars a year.
heck our local sportsmans club lost 1,100 MEMBERS IN LAST COUPLE YEARS.
why ,because the hunting is bad and 20 dollars for local membership, they aint paying it.
its economy and bad hunting ,not only deer but rabbits/turkey/grouse are not very good.
so, you are right,i have no doubt the USP is losing members.so are other clubs.
hunting magazines are losing the a also.fishing too.they are losing members.B.A.S.S lost over 126,000 members.
NRA lost almost as many.i am mewmber of ELKS club. we lose 30 members a year in our area. thats lot.
dues of 35 dollars ,they wont pay it.
i dont agree with everything the USP does. but PGC is not very good group if they let this OVERHARVEST of deer happen here in pa.