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<blockquote data-quote="Southern Sportsman" data-source="post: 5044232" data-attributes="member: 10399"><p>1) There were absolutely, without question, many, many people who went to the drawings, with no intention of ever hunting there, just hoping to get drawn to make a few thousand dollars on a Saturday morning.</p><p></p><p>2) number 1 is a big part of number two. Private land is expensive. Private leases are expensive. But a cornerstone of America's outdoor heritage and wildlife conservation (outside of Texas) is the concept of wild animals held in public trust and anyone, rich or poor, can hunt them on public land. Buy your license and you have the same opportunity to hunt there as anyone else. Buying and selling blinds upends that system. Drawing a year-long blind effectively privatizes that spot for that year. That can be tolerated to an extent because everyone should have an equal chance to draw the spot. But buying and selling just highlights the inherent flaw in the system - opportunities to hunt public land being sold to the highest bidder. Which incentivizes applications just hoping to sell. Which reduces draw odds and results in public land being controlled by the wealthy.</p><p></p><p>Imagine if coveted western big game tags were fully transferrable. The market value for those tags is hundreds of thousands of dollars, as evidenced by the "governor's tags" sold each year to fund conservation. No matter how genuinely you want to hunt a bighorn sheep or a top-tier elk unit, if someone offers $100,000-$250,000 for your tag, very few people could afford to turn it down. People with no intentions of hunting would apply with hopes of making a fortune, and the end result would be only multi-millionaires hunting with those coveted tags — which is fundamentally the opposite of what public land opportunities are supposed to be.</p><p></p><p>Selling duck blinds is just a lower cost version of that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Southern Sportsman, post: 5044232, member: 10399"] 1) There were absolutely, without question, many, many people who went to the drawings, with no intention of ever hunting there, just hoping to get drawn to make a few thousand dollars on a Saturday morning. 2) number 1 is a big part of number two. Private land is expensive. Private leases are expensive. But a cornerstone of America’s outdoor heritage and wildlife conservation (outside of Texas) is the concept of wild animals held in public trust and anyone, rich or poor, can hunt them on public land. Buy your license and you have the same opportunity to hunt there as anyone else. Buying and selling blinds upends that system. Drawing a year-long blind effectively privatizes that spot for that year. That can be tolerated to an extent because everyone should have an equal chance to draw the spot. But buying and selling just highlights the inherent flaw in the system - opportunities to hunt public land being sold to the highest bidder. Which incentivizes applications just hoping to sell. Which reduces draw odds and results in public land being controlled by the wealthy. Imagine if coveted western big game tags were fully transferrable. The market value for those tags is hundreds of thousands of dollars, as evidenced by the “governor’s tags” sold each year to fund conservation. No matter how genuinely you want to hunt a bighorn sheep or a top-tier elk unit, if someone offers $100,000-$250,000 for your tag, very few people could afford to turn it down. People with no intentions of hunting would apply with hopes of making a fortune, and the end result would be only multi-millionaires hunting with those coveted tags — which is fundamentally the opposite of what public land opportunities are supposed to be. Selling duck blinds is just a lower cost version of that. [/QUOTE]
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