what's going to ultimately ruin and govern the HELL/fun out of hunting.
I agree completely. My dad didn't hunt. When I started hunting. I grabbed a family gun and walked out the door and I was LEGAL. It was our land and there was no dang tags, or other bullcrap or I probably would have never started in the first place.
Be careful what y'all ask for. Not everyone grew up hunting and it's hard to get started.
So what is different from that now? You can still do that if it is owned by a household member can't you? Are you somehow saying that it would be easier to get into hunting, if you walked out your back door, and never saw any deer, because the herd wasn't managed???
I'm just saying that right now, I have to have SEVEN different documents to hunt ducks on a WMA. From a HIP, to hunter safety, to signed map, to actual license, state and federal stamps, plugs, steel shot etc.
I come at it from the standpoint of wanting hunting to be as acessible as possible. And the burden of proof is on the state to prove why we should have to do something.
Why the heck can't the state pick 5,000 hunters, pay them $100 to report their kills? People just think a game check will solve our problems of low deer #'s and it won't do anything. The 5,000 hunters could give the state probably more reliable data, and it is voluntary.
If I had to have a gamecheck number, a tag, and whatever other BS other states have to have, no, I probably wouldn't have fooled with it.
