Texas Bowhunters.. beware...
#21
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: land of the Lilliputians, In the state of insanity
Posts: 26,274
RE: Texas Bowhunters.. beware...
ORIGINAL: Jim_IV
I know of two public land places within 100 miles that I can deer hunt on.It'sType 2 land which means another $60 permit. There isn't a whole lot of land either (maybe 500 acres), but there are a lot of hunters
ORIGINAL: txjourneyman
Nope, less than 3% of Texas is public land. Of that 3%, less than 1% is open to hunting. Whats 1% of 3%? Not very much at all! I think I'd be better off hunting out of state public land as a NR.
ORIGINAL: Simp
How about public land? As big as Texas is you must have an abundance of public land, right?
How about public land? As big as Texas is you must have an abundance of public land, right?
#23
RE: Texas Bowhunters.. beware...
Original:Mr4pt
If you truely love the sport, you should want more kids involved.............at any cost.
If you truely love the sport, you should want more kids involved.............at any cost.
So what should I do? Place an advertisement that all kids are welcome to hunt my private propertry for free anytime they want?Donate rifles and bows to all that come by?Provide air conditioned and heated blinds so that we ensure they enjoy it and want to stay involved? At any cost, right?
Things that I am sure you do all the time in Arkansas.
That being said, I am against it, for the reasons already mentioned, some legimitate (like daddy really pulling the trigger and using the kids tag who may not even be in the field to begin with) and some are selfish (like the buck leaving my property and getting shot by someone else or the deer becoming cautious and nocturnal quicker).
But in the end, we are lucky in Texas in that we have plentiful deer and a long 95 day season in which we can bowhunt. I'll will voice my opinion to the state as being against it, but I am not going to lose a lot of sleep over it either.
#24
Fork Horn
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Guns
Posts: 189
RE: Texas Bowhunters.. beware...
Points well made. However, the tpwd is wrong, I do not belive this will increase hunters. I have paid for the right to be in the woods eariler than the others. I do not wish to have a child with a rifle shooting anywhere near me. I do not know their dad and am not sure about his traning. I choose to bow hunt and paid to do so.
#26
Spike
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Northern IL
Posts: 89
RE: Texas Bowhunters.. beware...
This shouldnt even be an issue. With plummetting youth numbers, all hunters, regardless of your weapon of choice, should embrace any attempts to get more kids involved in the sport.
#27
RE: Texas Bowhunters.. beware...
ORIGINAL: ollie085
This shouldnt even be an issue. With plummetting youth numbers, all hunters, regardless of your weapon of choice, should embrace any attempts to get more kids involved in the sport.
This shouldnt even be an issue. With plummetting youth numbers, all hunters, regardless of your weapon of choice, should embrace any attempts to get more kids involved in the sport.
#28
RE: Texas Bowhunters.. beware...
ORIGINAL: ollie085
This shouldnt even be an issue. With plummetting youth numbers, all hunters, regardless of your weapon of choice, should embrace any attempts to get more kids involved in the sport.
This shouldnt even be an issue. With plummetting youth numbers, all hunters, regardless of your weapon of choice, should embrace any attempts to get more kids involved in the sport.
But I do know this; the number of hunters continue to decrease each year. That means in the near future we will have fewer and fewer people fighting for our rights. If any of you have never seen the joy on a kids face when he kills his first deer, squirrell, rabbit or duck then you are truely missing out on one of the best blessings our sport has to offer.
#29
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: land of the Lilliputians, In the state of insanity
Posts: 26,274
RE: Texas Bowhunters.. beware...
If you are going to teach a child to hunt, is it going to depend on a special season? I learned in the general season, as did most all of us. Will a special season actually promote those who would not regularly take a kid out, to do so?
I can see where this is going to be abused. There will be tuns of people taking a kid along, just so they can shoot a deer and tag it with their kids tag.
I can see where this is going to be abused. There will be tuns of people taking a kid along, just so they can shoot a deer and tag it with their kids tag.
#30
RE: Texas Bowhunters.. beware...
Why not make the Youthgun season anterless, then you will soon see that not manykids will be going out with their father because dear old Dad only wants to shoot a big buck