for people who have no opportunity to hunt private ground...like me fishing a very public and over used river...sucks but what else are you going to do
So you get to spend piles of money (guns, waders, boat, decoys, calls, clothes, and now GAS) and go sit and stare at the sky for a couple days, that is progress? Really? I don't have private ground for duck hunting, never have. What the TWRA did WITH and TO duck hunting is beyond stupid and makes ZERO sense. This complete BS partly comes from "everybody gets a trophy, nobody loses, life is not fair, etc." It is complete liberal, partly communistic crap. Even the guy I spoke to who works for the TWRA and was a part of setting up this crap admitted that. He brought that thought up, not me.
In Tennessee, in drawing a duck blind, I will say this is for 90 percent of all blinds in the state and most likely it is a higher percentage. When someone draws a blind, they are hoping, the are wishing, heck if they are smart they are PRAYING they will get a few days (if they are lucky may get a week or 2) that the weather is right and there are ducks. There is no rhyme or reason as to when those precious few days will be. They could be any time of the season. On top of putting out decoys and getting a blind ready to hunt, there is NO WAY that a day or 2 or 3 days is even remotely in the ballpark of enough time to hunt a blind. Unless you get the LUCKY few days there are either ducks, good weather or BOTH, the time and money of duck hunting (boats, guns, ammo, waders, decoys, calls, etc.) is a complete waste. Sure, you get a blind for a couple days, but to do what, stare at the sky? What a load of crap. The only way this actually works, is if there are enough ducks to support the process. Meaning throughout the season, there is a realistic chance of killing ducks, which is not the case for most of Tennessee. It is so SAD the TWRA has ruined and turned duck hunting into a complete crap shoot. It will be a stroke of luck to pick the best few days of a season for a blind. Maybe divide the season in thirds or halves, maybe then someone will get a chance to have the blind when there are ducks. This BS of we have to give everyone a chance (exact words from the TWRA) is that, complete BS.
And when it comes to the selling of blinds (I don't have a problem with that, so long the drawing process is fair, I don't care what someone does with a blind they drew) but several game officers have told me that they believe the TWRA could have stopped the selling of blinds a long time ago, they just will not.
