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<blockquote data-quote="MidTennFisher" data-source="post: 5714389" data-attributes="member: 11842"><p>I'm well aware of all these, "the sky is falling, we're losing hunting" articles. </p><p></p><p>My question is still the same - where do you actually see a decrease in hunters? Lease prices are going up, yet they still become more crowded, they still have guys on wait lists to get in, people get bought out by a higher bidder, WMAs are exponentially getting more crowded every year, draw odds continue to decrease on Western hunts. In some Western states even residents can't draw tags they used to draw every year. Has BLM land disappeared out West? Of course not, there are just thousands more people applying for those tags because.... hunter numbers are not declining.</p><p></p><p>How about fishing? Been to the Caney Fork lately? Every trip we make back to Tennessee I try to make a trip there with my buddy, and former member, Catman. We have a blast fishing that river but every dang time we go, we see more kayaks with fishermen, and more fishermen wading or bank fishing. </p><p></p><p>If hunter numbers are decreasing, why is there a new "outfitter" popping up in the Midwest in every pothole charging outrageous rates per gun to hunt ducks or snow geese and constantly booked up? Wouldn't all these guys be going out of business?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MidTennFisher, post: 5714389, member: 11842"] I'm well aware of all these, "the sky is falling, we're losing hunting" articles. My question is still the same - where do you actually see a decrease in hunters? Lease prices are going up, yet they still become more crowded, they still have guys on wait lists to get in, people get bought out by a higher bidder, WMAs are exponentially getting more crowded every year, draw odds continue to decrease on Western hunts. In some Western states even residents can't draw tags they used to draw every year. Has BLM land disappeared out West? Of course not, there are just thousands more people applying for those tags because.... hunter numbers are not declining. How about fishing? Been to the Caney Fork lately? Every trip we make back to Tennessee I try to make a trip there with my buddy, and former member, Catman. We have a blast fishing that river but every dang time we go, we see more kayaks with fishermen, and more fishermen wading or bank fishing. If hunter numbers are decreasing, why is there a new "outfitter" popping up in the Midwest in every pothole charging outrageous rates per gun to hunt ducks or snow geese and constantly booked up? Wouldn't all these guys be going out of business? [/QUOTE]
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