Originally Posted by
Topgun 3006
It sounds like a bunch of crybabies that just don't want to pay for a license that was an extra bonus until this change. If the license numbers aren't restricted and I don't believe that was in this change, then I don't see how this is a big deal other than paying more money that some don't want to pay. In this day and age you have to pay to play and if there isn't enough money coming in to manage a resource then the resource suffers. It sounds to me like a lot of people are just ticked because they no longer are getting a "freebie"!
It wasn't "free" up till this year the big license included bear/deer/turkey for one price. Now DGIF took out bear an made a new bear license just to hunt them. The price stayed the same for deer/turkey.
IMO the VA bear association was behind this trying to have more bear for their members to hunt. I'm sure a lot of deer hunters were killing bear while deer hunting, now it will cost more.
I won't buy the new license and now will have bear run over top of me...lol