Hopefully someone from the Idaho fish and game does their due diligence and checks every suspicious lifetime license holder to see if they are obtaining resident permits in other states. I believe that would be a Lacey Act violation to claim residency in multiple states for the purpose of...
Out in the woods now. Called in a pair earlier that I could never get a shot at. I was down in the woods and they were in the open. They didn’t want to venture down into the timber. Had a deer run through being chased by a coyote at my first set up. The coyote immediately turned and ran...
This is obviously pointless, but Once again…who are you to assume that? If the commissioner hears from 100 people and 90 of them are for rifles he may have to go against his beliefs unless he can show evidence to support his decision. at the meeting on March 3 the majority of the comments...
I don’t agree with that.
My original statement really had nothing to do with rifles or shotguns. It was that commissioners were going against the opinion of the people. If they had statements from residents of the county or data to show they should have said so. Often times they do get...
We see it all the time for Wildlife management. Look at how many hunting seasons for bears and furbearers have been closed because of “popular opinion”.
No. How are the commissioners not supposed to assume that’s what the constituents want if there is no one in opposition to it at the public meeting?
So the commissioners are supposed to think there was 100 people at this meeting and 90 of them were in favor of the change but that’s not a...
I never said it was a random sample. I said the democratically appointed commissioners went against the will of the people who spoke at the public meeting.
I’m going off of the comments I read in the minutes from the March 3 meeting. Most of the commenters were citizens of Houston county and were hunters. They were in favor of using rifles.
Did anyone provide the commissioners with actual data from states that have gone from shotgun to rifle? I didn’t see any actual data presented in the minutes I read to support either staying with shotguns or changing to rifles.
The minutes I read were citizens of the county and hunters...