Tndrbstr, likewise, I do see you your perspective, and totally believe that most of the public land should be "managed" for the hunting experiences that most of Tennessee hunters are wanting most.

But we are talking about public land, something that belongs to all of us, and all of us are not wanting the same hunting experience.

Currently, the acreage of President's Island accounts for maybe 1% of the TWRA-managed public lands?

There's certainly a lot more than 1% of Tennessee's hunters begging for a hunting experience geared more towards a QUALITY hunting experience rather than just the QUANTITY of days we can deer hunt annually. This is evidenced by the over a thousand TN hunters who are forfeiting all their quota hunt permits ongoing just for the opportunity to hunt President's Island a single weekend ONE TIME during the next 10 to 15 years.

My thought was simply that if a large percentage of Tennessee's hunters are preferring a better quality hunt over just another hunt, in all fairness, why not have a little more of our public lands offering this opportunity?

By the way, I am not a fan of the "trophy" regs on President's Island --- I think those antler restrictions suck. (By no means would I want the PI regs "rubber stamped" onto another WMA.) What I am a fan of is having some WMA's that simply just offer either-sex hunting (without antler restrictions), but with enough less hunting, that the deer herd is managed more as nature intended ---- with a good representation of 4 1/2 and older bucks that are actually moving around during daytime hours so we can see and harvest more of them while hunting. Not for everybody, maybe not for you, but there's a growing number who prefer quality over quantity.

Thats what i dont understand as i will ahve one point this year so i am in the 12,232. So how does that mean i will get drawn in 8 to 10 years?

Your thinking the samething I am that it seems more like 15 to 20 years if you do the math on it!

Because 11,000+ are going for WMA hunts other than PI.

What other WMA has a waiting list?

yuchi

and about wanting other wma's to have the same rules as PI. if one of the wma's chosen is one i have been hunting forever, i would be PISSED!! make new wma's with those rules but leave the established wma's alone.