N.A. Apex predator.
Dear lefties,
Don’t complain when these critters eat your precious flowers, your, ahem, grass plants, your imported bushes.
It’s your own damn fault!
I still remember brutal anti-hunting and anti-gun TV shows from the 1970s. SAY GOODBY and THE GUNS OF AUTUMN.
Some of the shooting scenes were fabricated, especially the Polar Bear hunt. It was a tagging operation passed off as the killing of Polar bears.
N.A. Apex predator.
I haven’t been able to verify this story but when we first moved to New York this is what we heard. NYC owns Cannonsville Reservoir and one year they shut down deer hunting on it. A few years later during an extremely hard winter supposedly 30,000 deer starved to death. The story continued saying you could drive down country roads and see some just keel over. If anyone has more info on this reply. In any case, this will probably happen if hunting dies off.
At 68, hunting keeps me in good physical condition.
People stopped Hunting because states allowed liberals, who hate hunters with a white-hot passion, to make the hunting rules.
Used to be there were two licenses, small game and big game.
If you wanted to hunt ducks there was a extra ‘Stamp’ you had to buy.
Big game licenses covered deer and bear and small game covered everything else.
Now you need to carry a lawyer in your back pocket to see if you may break some unknown law that nobody knew about.
There are only certain kinds of guns you may use, but the rules of which depends on where you are at in the state and what time you are there.
There are HUNDREDS of different start/stop times for hunting and it changes depending you exact location. You will need a GPS!
I'm surprised that it's only down 17.6% since the 1980s. While there are many reasons to enjoy hunting, it's more economically efficient for most people to work, earn money and buy food in a store than to hunt to put food on the table.
(And yes, it's a continuous battle with ******* deer to minimize the damage that they do to our gardens.)
If you notice the artical is more about the all mighty dollar that the states are loosing from declining hunting license purchases than anything else.Not to for get the economic loss of the purchases of hunting equipment.
The problem is the Rats want to kill the Second Amendment,They want to kill hunting.They need to be careful about what their wishing for.
It might just blow up in their faces.
Oregon keeps raising fees for hunting and fishing to make up for shortfalls. When asked if that didn't further decrease participation, one official said that it did, and they raised it a little more to account for the loss. The whole State works like that.
Well my brother is doing his part. Got the limit on bow, musket and shot gun season.
Maybe people are not buying licenses is all?-)
Too many regs. & $$ including endless special tag$ for
different species + education classes too..
When i was a kid in the 70s, One license for
all huntin in my state ( except ducks requiring a Fed stamp).
That one simple license was good to go on everything from summer to summer (right before dove season).
The regs consisted of a single fold-out brochure
prolly around a 11x17” printed both sides. Now -they are
small books. The regs mainly addressed
daily limits by species & county. that’s close enough..
Opening day around here used to sound like a battlefield. You would actually worry about being hit with a stray slug while driving your car.
Now, silent. Just another day.
Neighbor of mine has a private hunting preserve, he charges about $6,000 per person per hunt. Nothing exotic, just deer. You have three days to hunt, you may use any caliber of rifle you want, you will be shooting from a tree stand and once you get your deer it is over.
There is a waiting list.
The bear was young, the wife rendered the fat, absolutely beautiful, sparkling snow white. We just had spiced bear loin, sous vide, so tender you couldn’t come close with the most expensive veal.
I also grow most of our own food. You’d be gobsmacked at the list of what we have stored and preserved.
I raised my boys to hunt, started them at 5 years old going overnight, 2-3 mile backpack trips in, up at 4 a.m., on the mountain in stand by 6 a.m. taught my wife to hunt. One year, November, apron on, she’s cooking the turkey. Deer run into the front garden (I had taken the fence down), she grabs her rifle, out the back door around the porch, fires, knocks one down, takes a picture holding the deer and rifle with her apron on, asks me to take care of the deer, and she goes back in to cooking.
It is just how we roll.
My family didn't get here until around 1900 {but we didn't own slaves, so I ain't paying} but I've been hunting since 1950, so I guess the only solution, is to raise the price of licenses. S/Off
Hunting peaked in 1982.
It’s decline is from a combination of boomers aging out of hunting (and fishing and golfing), other activities (like videogaming) attracting younger generations, a lowering white male demographic, less hunting land made available or at higher fees and the school/media anti-gun Indoctrination over the decades. An article on it...
https://www.outdoorlife.com/why-we-are-losing-hunters-and-how-to-fix-it/
Some old hunting pics...https://www.wideopenspaces.com/good-old-days-30-old-time-hunting-photos-pics/