TheLBLman
Well-Known Member
I certainly cannot disagree with your statement.arkwaterfowler":25xch1ht said:I also stand by my statements that lots of hunters moan and groan and continue not to exercise self restraint.
But please note there are also lots of hunters groaning who do in fact exercise lots of self restraint.
But it too often gets old in so doing when your conservation is then exploited by so many others just out to "get the limit".
It's always a flawed system that punishes honest people for being honest
while rewarding dishonest people for being dishonest.
As example, the typical "earn-a-buck" program on the National Wildlife Refuges.
Many if not most of the "checked in" antlerLESS deer have been fictitious and/or killed in some other county.
Similarly, it gets old showing lots of restraint, like only yourself shooting one or two birds annually, while all you pass are killed by others so focused only on "killing the limit", whatever that limit may be. Those who are legally exploiting our resources are in effect punishing those of us who are being true conservationists. For a such a system to be in place, the fingers should mainly point at those who make the regs?
How much does it matter whether they volunteered, were appointed, or have a paid salary to do this work?