Originally posted by pav:
Indiana just completed a deer season which offered 45 potential days of firearm/ML pressure, 97 days of archery pressure and 97 days of crossbow pressure. All of that is EXCLUDING additional days for urban deer zones and several special hunts. Compare THAT to the states on our west...or our east borders.
We have a bonus county permit system that has never really worked (deer densities from one side of the county to the other vary greatly where I live)....and antlerless quotas that are beyond ridiculous.
EHD has become a household acronym over the past few years. Yes, the disease has been around forever, but the widespread run of reported EHD outbreaks in Indiana over the past 6-8 years has been unprecedented....at least in my lifetime.
The state continues to hand out deer depredation permits like candy at Halloween.
How anyone can look at that objectively and even remotely consider we may be headed down the right path is beyond me? Support the DNR? Why because they have biology degrees? What good is having a degree in biology when the bus is being driven by politicians...none of which have degrees in biology.
More recently, even their own customers are trumping DNR direction. Some of you guys preaching support for the DNR today are the same guys that used political pressure to kick the DNR in the teeth three years ago. You say "Trust the DNR?" The way I see it, that really says "Trust me." Based on some of the crap I read on this forum (and others)....well, I'll be nice and just say "No thanks!"
Seriously beginning to wonder why I even bother to care? I hear alot of guys complaining, but my situation is much different from most. If/when my situation changes...I will find another. Doesn't matter what species I'm hunting, you can bet there was alot of emphasis placed on finding the "right" place to hunt. Would save myself a ton of frustration if I would just concentrate on that....and forget about what's going on elsewhere. Must be the realist in me admitting that sooner or later...all of this BS is going to cause me grief....in one form or another.
Exactly.
Here is what I don't get. The people who aren't effected by the regs and don't have much trouble getting their deer every year (pav, jb, dew) and a few others are the ones who basically say the same things. Our hunting is already pretty darn good. No matter what the dnr does it will stay that way. Maybe some should think about that a second. We have no vested interest. These ideas put forth would be for the benefit of those who don't have the same opportunities available. Most would love to have access to these managed properties but they don't want to hear how to get there.
That is why I became so frustrated and basically quit posting here but its been a cold couple weeks and Ive been stuck in the house so I started back again probably a mistake.
