Eventually the United States is going to be like Europe and the only people that can afford to hunt are the royalty. I live in South Texas and you have to own a oil well in order to afford to hunt down here. Myself and a few buddies went on a DIY Mule deer hunt in Colorado in 2009 and unfortunately the area we drew was also an over the counter elk unit and there were litterally traffic jams on top of the mountain. Needless to say it was not a wilderness experience. We have since been building up preference points and are waiting to draw in a limited access area but it sucks to have to wait 5 years to hunt.

I have two little boys that I want to pass down the hunting heritage to but as a police officer my salary doesn't allow me to do that. I will never hire an outfitter because I enjoy the hunt as much as the actual harvesting of an animal plus I can't afford it and still send my sons to college. I've had to severely limit my big game hunting and almost exclusively waterfowl hunt.

I hope this legislation is killed and the working man still has a place to hunt.