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<blockquote data-quote="Crosshairy" data-source="post: 5043942" data-attributes="member: 3202"><p>I think when you are drawing for a chance to *hunt a blind*, then the folks that are willing to hunt it will be the only ones to apply. </p><p></p><p>When you are drawing for a chance at a thing of fairly significant value ($10k, let's say) with no work involved, it attracts a different (larger) crowd because there is no equity involved from those involved. Generally, that equity is sweat, skill, money, and time.</p><p></p><p>Season-long draw hunts on public land are a genuinely rare thing - the comparison to fishing spots makes no sense, as there is no quota for boats fishing major reservoirs, so the supply equation is not even comparable. By allowing that opportunity to be sold, it moves that experience from a way to win an adventure for someone of limited means to a way for a mass of folks to win a small windfall of cash. It steals chances for those without the cash to pay for guide services from being able to hunt the public land that their licenses/stamps help pay for.</p><p></p><p>The net effect of all of this is that those with money win (even more). We have a chance to make something more pure and democratic, but then we have been contaminating it with what is essentially bribery ("Hey, I'll pay you to break the law and look the other way").</p><p></p><p>There are better ways of managing this problem than the current proposal - I think we can all agree on that. But there are definite winners and losers with the selling of blinds. The winners are anyone who's willing to pay per hunt to sit in a blind and not do any hard work, and the guides who have found a way to avoid leasing private property by getting a spot on public land. The losers are everyone else who wants a chance to do that same hunt themselves but could never buy the opportunity away from the soccer mom/dad or the parent of the 8-year-old whose name got drawn out of the hat instead of a legitimate hunter.</p><p></p><p>I don't agree with chopping some of these "advanced-experience-required" hunting spots into 3-day hunts, but I also think that the season-long draws should be for actual hunters only.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crosshairy, post: 5043942, member: 3202"] I think when you are drawing for a chance to *hunt a blind*, then the folks that are willing to hunt it will be the only ones to apply. When you are drawing for a chance at a thing of fairly significant value ($10k, let's say) with no work involved, it attracts a different (larger) crowd because there is no equity involved from those involved. Generally, that equity is sweat, skill, money, and time. Season-long draw hunts on public land are a genuinely rare thing - the comparison to fishing spots makes no sense, as there is no quota for boats fishing major reservoirs, so the supply equation is not even comparable. By allowing that opportunity to be sold, it moves that experience from a way to win an adventure for someone of limited means to a way for a mass of folks to win a small windfall of cash. It steals chances for those without the cash to pay for guide services from being able to hunt the public land that their licenses/stamps help pay for. The net effect of all of this is that those with money win (even more). We have a chance to make something more pure and democratic, but then we have been contaminating it with what is essentially bribery ("Hey, I'll pay you to break the law and look the other way"). There are better ways of managing this problem than the current proposal - I think we can all agree on that. But there are definite winners and losers with the selling of blinds. The winners are anyone who's willing to pay per hunt to sit in a blind and not do any hard work, and the guides who have found a way to avoid leasing private property by getting a spot on public land. The losers are everyone else who wants a chance to do that same hunt themselves but could never buy the opportunity away from the soccer mom/dad or the parent of the 8-year-old whose name got drawn out of the hat instead of a legitimate hunter. I don't agree with chopping some of these "advanced-experience-required" hunting spots into 3-day hunts, but I also think that the season-long draws should be for actual hunters only. [/QUOTE]
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