To Add to Atlas Thread/Direction for your state
#11
Nontypical Buck
Joined: Feb 2007
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From: Milwaukee WI
I don't think us Wisconsinites really have anything to "complain" about. For the most part, I'm not unhappy with any of the governing rules set forth. The only things I can think of that might make it even better is to first condense the 133 DMU's(deer management units) into a smaller number. Sometimes you can go as little as 5-10 miles andmight notrealize that you're in a totally different DMU that you don't have a tag for.
The only other thing would be doing something about this CWD(chronic wasting disease) scare that's put alot of once prime areas on ice now. The DNR's tried everything they can for about a decade now and results aren't being had. I don't know what to do about the CWD problem but I do know that spending 30 plus millionin the last decade and doing pretty much the same things over and over but expecting different results is not all that smart.
The only other thing would be doing something about this CWD(chronic wasting disease) scare that's put alot of once prime areas on ice now. The DNR's tried everything they can for about a decade now and results aren't being had. I don't know what to do about the CWD problem but I do know that spending 30 plus millionin the last decade and doing pretty much the same things over and over but expecting different results is not all that smart.
#12
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 4,668
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From: NY
At the very least.
Ease off the does......1 per year and no transfer of tags (the single most idiotic "idea" that has caused the practice of shooting something just because "someone" has a tag now common practice for gangs piling out of trucks and driving the woods and killing everything that moves.......when the smoke clears they figure out how many tags they need to come up with.)
There really is no need for anyone to shoot more then 1 buck a year. This way you can still shoot whatever you want......and if you choose to wait you may actually see something after opening day of gun. Everyone wins.
Get gun season out of the freakin rut for god's sake.
Start bow a little earlier.........not a lot.......just a week or two.
Either get rid of muzzleloader season or put it somewhere viable........right now it is useless and thrown in just to shut people up IMO.
There is no need to have a 3 week shotgun season.........unless you are trying to slaughter them instead of manage them.
Do.............SOMETHING that makes me think even for one second that you have hunter interests above last on your list.
Ease off the does......1 per year and no transfer of tags (the single most idiotic "idea" that has caused the practice of shooting something just because "someone" has a tag now common practice for gangs piling out of trucks and driving the woods and killing everything that moves.......when the smoke clears they figure out how many tags they need to come up with.)
There really is no need for anyone to shoot more then 1 buck a year. This way you can still shoot whatever you want......and if you choose to wait you may actually see something after opening day of gun. Everyone wins.
Get gun season out of the freakin rut for god's sake.
Start bow a little earlier.........not a lot.......just a week or two.
Either get rid of muzzleloader season or put it somewhere viable........right now it is useless and thrown in just to shut people up IMO.
There is no need to have a 3 week shotgun season.........unless you are trying to slaughter them instead of manage them.
Do.............SOMETHING that makes me think even for one second that you have hunter interests above last on your list.
#13
ORIGINAL: MN/Kyle
you beat me to it too.
ORIGINAL: TeeJay
Beat me to it!
ORIGINAL: MNpurple
MN's gun season falls right in the middle of the rut. I like to see the gun season bumped back a week or two, just so that the bucks are not taken advantage of at their very most vulnerable time.
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MN's gun season falls right in the middle of the rut. I like to see the gun season bumped back a week or two, just so that the bucks are not taken advantage of at their very most vulnerable time.
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#14
Merge the Fish commision & game commission into one organization.
4 pt AR across the state
Allow sunday hunting
Smaller management units(currently we have 22) Would probably to better with almost double that.
Extend archery season
Increase the severity of poaching crimes, and then actually enforce them.
4 pt AR across the state
Allow sunday hunting
Smaller management units(currently we have 22) Would probably to better with almost double that.
Extend archery season
Increase the severity of poaching crimes, and then actually enforce them.
#15
Giant Nontypical
Joined: Dec 2004
Posts: 7,876
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From: Ohio
Phone check in. This state requires you check it in whole and in the county or adjacent. What a pain. I don't even know where they are away form home. Getting out of the woods late and trying to find a place is stupid and a huge waste of time and money these days.
#16
I think our state's on the right track with the new unlimited does on private lands law (restricted). The new urban archery season is going to make a difference, too.
I'd say we're talking and they're listening.
I'd say we're talking and they're listening.
#17
Nontypical Buck
Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,645
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From: York,Pa
ORIGINAL: Rob/PA Bowyer
PA, 4 point rule across the state. Micromanage doe permits.
PA, 4 point rule across the state. Micromanage doe permits.
#18
In Illinois:
make it mandatory that all of the money spent by sportsman goes to the DNR and not siphoned off into the general fund. By doing so maybe a little extra money can be put into a fund for adding more public land here and there.
make it mandatory that all of the money spent by sportsman goes to the DNR and not siphoned off into the general fund. By doing so maybe a little extra money can be put into a fund for adding more public land here and there.
#19
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
I think our state's on the right track with the new unlimited does on private lands law (restricted). The new urban archery season is going to make a difference, too.
I'd say we're talking and they're listening.
I think our state's on the right track with the new unlimited does on private lands law (restricted). The new urban archery season is going to make a difference, too.
I'd say we're talking and they're listening.


