That literally has nothing to do with it. A lot of us grew up as MOGA further commercialized our wildlife and know nothing other than hunting public land and BMA. I don’t believe I ought to be able to go on any private land I want nor believe those private landowners should be able to monopolize our wildlife.
Wow, you have more patience than I do. It only took 78 pages and how many months? Looks like we've been had, the jig is up, he's on to us...come on...its one dude. Seems like your spiking the ball on the 20 yard line instead of the end-zone.
That wasn’t much of a boom
I wondered this too. @Eric Albus stated earlier that the number of outfitters has declined since I-161 (don't remember which post exactly but if memory serves, like mid 500s down to upper 300s?). Since 161 wasn't really that long ago, I'd be very curious to see yearly data for the last 20 years.
I have no idea if Big Shooter's story is BS or not, but common sense tells me a lot of large landowners would prefer to get paid more and not have to deal with the hassles of DIY trespass requests. I am grateful for those who choose otherwise and either grant rando trespass requests or subscribe to WMA-type programs, but I can understand why many do not. It probably doesn't take too many broken fences, ruffled cattle, and scattered beer cans to sour on DIYers. (Not saying any HT member would do that, but we know not all hunters are gracious hunters)
The Red Ale is back for a limited time, much like the McRib.I kept it generic. If specific to you I would have thrown in Busted Knuckle.
Maybe they should leave him at the helm. An incompetent MOGA director works out in our favor.
Maybe a competent director could help us work towards not hunting deer for 11 weeks straight through the end of the rut instead of just grifting off the public’s wildlife?
FIFY
Not when there's $$$ to be made.
Yep. Instead we got a GG Lap Dog.
Now you're just being grandiose and unreasonable.
Much appreciated, and for the rest of you, I‘m pretty sure I would not have stated it if it weren’t true. What you said here is correct and exactly why landowners (large and small) get severe heartburn for hunting season. I would never put anyone on here in that group.....but the people that cause such problems that you stated above have given 99% of the orange clad army a bad name. It‘s no different with outfitters. Unfortunately it’s getting worse and not better every fall with what landowners have to deal with, to the extent that some landowners get about half nervous confronting folks that are in the wrong from fear of what might happen. Some of you can call BS all you want, but it is happening more and more and is not helping with the Landowner/DIY relationship building process.
