ORIGINAL: deaddeer
If we continue to loose more hunters the PGC will never be able to control the herd. Even with 1 M hunters they only sold around 550K anterless tags on the first round ,which shows many hunters don't want to harvest anterless deer. While fewer hunter may in fact result in better hunting for the remaining hunters , it will also result in a population explosion and a repeat of the same problems Alt tried to correct.
550k out of 1M is better than half...most DO want to kill does. It's been interesting reading the PGC/Alt debacle, but am curious to know what will be said..IF... when the new admin takes over, things don't improve? who'll be blamed then??? The passion of the sport is evident here, maybe enough to be blinded by the fact that there's more NON-hunters than hunters,(in about every state) and their $$ is just as good as yours. It's also amazing to read this very type of controversy in about 6-8 different Eastern states...