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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 5666508" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p><em>AND</em>, those state game agencies didn't destroy the future of deer hunting, much less eradicate the deer.</p><p></p><p>What TWRA has done with the Unit CWD has been much like what the government has done with the fear-mongering of Covid. In both cases, the responses and edicts of government have been <u>overall</u> worse than the disease.</p><p></p><p>The CWD response of TWRA is killing the sport of deer hunting as well as any ideals of deer management. At to this TWRA's apparent inability to turn the tide against the growing issue of trophy buck poaching. It also seems many, even on here, seem to think sitting over a corn pile during the velvet hunt is not poaching, just because they're using a bow.</p><p></p><p>The trend is more & more the general public is seeing "hunters" more as "poachers" and "eradicators" of nuisance or diseased deer, rather than "sportsmen".</p><p></p><p>At some point in the future (if such asinine policy continues), there will be so few "sport" (sportsman) deer hunters (like most of us), that the general public will see no reason we should continue to have deer "hunting" by "sportsmen".</p><p></p><p>This leads to a future where state & federal government employees control the deer populations (i.e. government hunters) rather than sportsmen hunters.</p><p></p><p>I do hope this turns around, but that's the direction we're going with TWRA's Unit CWD. And it is also the instant death of private lands deer management, whether you manage 50 acres or 5,000 acres. Doesn't matter. The TWRA CWD goal is to kill as many deer as possible, but especially bucks older than 2 1/2.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 5666508, member: 1409"] [I]AND[/I], those state game agencies didn't destroy the future of deer hunting, much less eradicate the deer. What TWRA has done with the Unit CWD has been much like what the government has done with the fear-mongering of Covid. In both cases, the responses and edicts of government have been [U]overall[/U] worse than the disease. The CWD response of TWRA is killing the sport of deer hunting as well as any ideals of deer management. At to this TWRA's apparent inability to turn the tide against the growing issue of trophy buck poaching. It also seems many, even on here, seem to think sitting over a corn pile during the velvet hunt is not poaching, just because they're using a bow. The trend is more & more the general public is seeing "hunters" more as "poachers" and "eradicators" of nuisance or diseased deer, rather than "sportsmen". At some point in the future (if such asinine policy continues), there will be so few "sport" (sportsman) deer hunters (like most of us), that the general public will see no reason we should continue to have deer "hunting" by "sportsmen". This leads to a future where state & federal government employees control the deer populations (i.e. government hunters) rather than sportsmen hunters. I do hope this turns around, but that's the direction we're going with TWRA's Unit CWD. And it is also the instant death of private lands deer management, whether you manage 50 acres or 5,000 acres. Doesn't matter. The TWRA CWD goal is to kill as many deer as possible, but especially bucks older than 2 1/2. [/QUOTE]
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