I think there's a trend for less hunters......I think where it gets confused as it being the opposite is due to the fact that there has been a decline in habitat combined with the increased lease prices driving the average man out of the game and forcing more and more folks who used to lease land to look to public hunting. .....JMO
Very good point, it isn’t just animals that have fewer acres to roam. I used to have plenty of free land to hunt for doves, quail, deer and turkeys. I didn’t have to pay for great dove shoots, people I knew had land and invited us. I didn’t have to be in a hunting club for hunting, land owners gave me written permission and I hunted all I wanted. Now, the price of getting into a decent club is a mortgage payment on a house, I know a lot of people can’t afford that. I tried to hunt WMA’s jack-legs coming in on me ruined that, I feel for people that think they need to ruin other’s experiences while hunting public land.
