That's why the discussion really just needs to be about fewer tags and/or regional restrictions. No one from WA is passing up a buck. So you can't ever hope that people will voluntarily hold back to allow a decent buck to become a good buck, or a good buck to become a great buck.
This jackwagon, points them too damn far out! The only covey we found were caught out in some barren ground away from cover and didn't hold as I was sneaking in for the flush 120 yards downwind
Yes, sorry, was thinking of the previous graph showing the large increase in NR licenses, but it's irrelevant (see what I did there?) to what we were actually talking about, which was determining the level of acceptable harvest.
So I'm trying to pretend I'm handy and adjust the trigger on the above gun. I did this years ago to remove the creep and lighten the pull weight. However I just realized in the last few months that the safety no longer works and probably hasn't since I messed with it.
I'm a struggling to...
I know half a dozen WA hunters that simply won't go if there's not a Nov season. So there's less pressure.
Legitimately, why deer hunt MT over WY and ID if there's no rut hunt?
Yes, 87.6 % of statistics are made up, but as you pointed out, you know people who have died climbing. No one has ever died because of CWD (that we know of). There are no population-level health indicators that CDJ is occurring more frequently in CWD areas (like there is for large areas of...
Is it a strawman argument? I believe we're talking about risk evaluation, specifically food-borne. Again, I'm not necessarily trying to be a dick, though I'm sure I'm coming across as one, but 3,000 people died last year due to food-borne illness. That's 3,000 more than we know CWD killed...