To Add to Atlas Thread/Direction for your state
01-23-2008 | 03:02 PM
#41
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RE: To Add to Atlas Thread/Direction for your state
Not many weighing in from WI here.... I feel very strongly:
1. Issue everyone a permanent plastic card with magnetic or digital capability, and all your license info is on there. Like a credit card. Wardens would have a card reader, (they already have a computer in their car anyway) deer check stations would have a card reader.... Do away with the stupid back tags!!@!!, paper licenses, stupid cumbersome registration.... hello its the 20th century.
2. Condense the management units. By about 30%.
3. Permanent statewide AR, 4 pt., no exceptions, 1 buck per person per year period. No EAB ever, period.
4. Stop having separate tags for gun and bow. Have one deer license, you can hunt either or both seasons/weapons, but only one buck and does as allowed. Pay one time for deer license, then kill as many as you want or are allowed. No extra fees for doe tags, just bag limits per management unit. No field carcass tags, just your plastic card, tag em at reg station with a readable adhesive tag like at grocery store.
5. Nix the whole CWD program. They've had CWD out west for 20+ years, hasn't affected their hunting at all.
6. Use the money saved for enforcement.
7. Ban all baiting and feeding forever, period.
1. Issue everyone a permanent plastic card with magnetic or digital capability, and all your license info is on there. Like a credit card. Wardens would have a card reader, (they already have a computer in their car anyway) deer check stations would have a card reader.... Do away with the stupid back tags!!@!!, paper licenses, stupid cumbersome registration.... hello its the 20th century.
2. Condense the management units. By about 30%.
3. Permanent statewide AR, 4 pt., no exceptions, 1 buck per person per year period. No EAB ever, period.
4. Stop having separate tags for gun and bow. Have one deer license, you can hunt either or both seasons/weapons, but only one buck and does as allowed. Pay one time for deer license, then kill as many as you want or are allowed. No extra fees for doe tags, just bag limits per management unit. No field carcass tags, just your plastic card, tag em at reg station with a readable adhesive tag like at grocery store.
5. Nix the whole CWD program. They've had CWD out west for 20+ years, hasn't affected their hunting at all.
6. Use the money saved for enforcement.
7. Ban all baiting and feeding forever, period.
01-23-2008 | 03:28 PM
#42
Giant Nontypical
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RE: To Add to Atlas Thread/Direction for your state
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I definitely see your point about it only hurts the law abiders, but how do you have long term proof that the deer was legal?
I definitely see your point about it only hurts the law abiders, but how do you have long term proof that the deer was legal?
Until you've experiencedphoning inyou just don't know how pleasant it is.
They're watching ya.
They only knew because you checked it. What would have been the difference if you called it in and gave them the same info? In Va it's computorized. Let them put that phone answering automation to some good use for a change.
01-23-2008 | 03:35 PM
#43
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RE: To Add to Atlas Thread/Direction for your state
I love how KY is ran. Bow Season is from Sept 03to Jan 21. One buck limit. Up tofour does, some counties unlimited.
Only two complaints i can think of is:
1. Rifle Season is 3 weeks long
2. Rifle Season couldn't fall more perfectly in the prime rut
I am a rifle hunter as well, so this would effect me just the same as the next guy.
Only two complaints i can think of is:
1. Rifle Season is 3 weeks long
2. Rifle Season couldn't fall more perfectly in the prime rut
I am a rifle hunter as well, so this would effect me just the same as the next guy.
01-23-2008 | 04:26 PM
#44
Nontypical Buck
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From: Milwaukee WI
RE: To Add to Atlas Thread/Direction for your state
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Not many weighing in from WI here....
Not many weighing in from WI here....
I feel very strongly:
1. Issue everyone a permanent plastic card with magnetic or digital capability, and all your license info is on there. Like a credit card. Wardens would have a card reader, (they already have a computer in their car anyway) deer check stations would have a card reader.... Do away with the stupid back tags!!@!!, paper licenses, stupid cumbersome registration.... hello its the 20th century.
1. Issue everyone a permanent plastic card with magnetic or digital capability, and all your license info is on there. Like a credit card. Wardens would have a card reader, (they already have a computer in their car anyway) deer check stations would have a card reader.... Do away with the stupid back tags!!@!!, paper licenses, stupid cumbersome registration.... hello its the 20th century.
2. Condense the management units. By about 30%.
4. Stop having separate tags for gun and bow. Have one deer license, you can hunt either or both seasons/weapons, but only one buck and does as allowed. Pay one time for deer license, then kill as many as you want or are allowed. No extra fees for doe tags, just bag limits per management unit.
5. Nix the whole CWD program. They've had CWD out west for 20+ years, hasn't affected their hunting at all.
7. Ban all baiting and feeding forever, period.
01-23-2008 | 04:54 PM
#45
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From: Wisconsin and Canada
RE: To Add to Atlas Thread/Direction for your state
ORIGINAL: waiting_for_a_gift
Not many weighing in from WI here.... I feel very strongly:
1. Issue everyone a permanent plastic card with magnetic or digital capability, and all your license info is on there. Like a credit card. Wardens would have a card reader, (they already have a computer in their car anyway) deer check stations would have a card reader.... Do away with the stupid back tags!!@!!, paper licenses, stupid cumbersome registration.... hello its the 20th century.
2. Condense the management units. By about 30%.
3. Permanent statewide AR, 4 pt., no exceptions, 1 buck per person per year period. No EAB ever, period.
4. Stop having separate tags for gun and bow. Have one deer license, you can hunt either or both seasons/weapons, but only one buck and does as allowed. Pay one time for deer license, then kill as many as you want or are allowed. No extra fees for doe tags, just bag limits per management unit. No field carcass tags, just your plastic card, tag em at reg station with a readable adhesive tag like at grocery store.
5. Nix the whole CWD program. They've had CWD out west for 20+ years, hasn't affected their hunting at all.
6. Use the money saved for enforcement.
7. Ban all baiting and feeding forever, period.
Not many weighing in from WI here.... I feel very strongly:
1. Issue everyone a permanent plastic card with magnetic or digital capability, and all your license info is on there. Like a credit card. Wardens would have a card reader, (they already have a computer in their car anyway) deer check stations would have a card reader.... Do away with the stupid back tags!!@!!, paper licenses, stupid cumbersome registration.... hello its the 20th century.
2. Condense the management units. By about 30%.
3. Permanent statewide AR, 4 pt., no exceptions, 1 buck per person per year period. No EAB ever, period.
4. Stop having separate tags for gun and bow. Have one deer license, you can hunt either or both seasons/weapons, but only one buck and does as allowed. Pay one time for deer license, then kill as many as you want or are allowed. No extra fees for doe tags, just bag limits per management unit. No field carcass tags, just your plastic card, tag em at reg station with a readable adhesive tag like at grocery store.
5. Nix the whole CWD program. They've had CWD out west for 20+ years, hasn't affected their hunting at all.
6. Use the money saved for enforcement.
7. Ban all baiting and feeding forever, period.
Good post.....but unfortunately its a pipe dream.
01-23-2008 | 05:36 PM
#47
Nontypical Buck
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From: Martinsburg, WV
RE: To Add to Atlas Thread/Direction for your state
WV here. allow sunday hunting, maybe an earlier start to bow season. No other changes needed. Hunting here is fun, thats what is supposed to be, not a trophy contest.
01-24-2008 | 04:24 AM
#48
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RE: To Add to Atlas Thread/Direction for your state
New York. Shorten the firearms season which including muzzleloader is close to a month,3 weeks rifle or shotgun and 1 week muzzleloader,to at least half of that.Impose a one buck only rule all weapons.
There is so much law breaking going on right now that it is way beyond incidental,the antler restrictions that are in place in some units are being ignored.Enforcement is a joke,purely because the Co's are so under staffed.The laws have to have enough bite in them to scare people straight.
There are some units that are over run with doe's and some like the high peaks area's where having a doe tag is no guarantee of being able to kill one,so I don't knowthat there is an across the board method that will get the job done for all units.
There is so much law breaking going on right now that it is way beyond incidental,the antler restrictions that are in place in some units are being ignored.Enforcement is a joke,purely because the Co's are so under staffed.The laws have to have enough bite in them to scare people straight.
There are some units that are over run with doe's and some like the high peaks area's where having a doe tag is no guarantee of being able to kill one,so I don't knowthat there is an across the board method that will get the job done for all units.
