What does Africa have to do with governor's tags? And since you brought it up, how many people...American's or not, can afford to hunt Africa on a regular basis, if at all? I am talking about limiting unique and coveted tags to only those who can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a single tag. If they were raffle tags that would be a completely different conversation. And I am talking about Americans hunting THEIR game on THEIR public land...where a father can take his kid out deer hunting and teach them how to camp, hike, hunt, etc.
Nothing.
I was responding to your comment about a European model. I asked. In turn, as about the African model. Both Europe and Africa ran out of public land hunting, in many countries……. 40 years ago, so they turned to private land hunting. For those that want to hunt, it’s the best they could do, and while it may be different than how we prefer to hunt, they had no other choice. I’m saying we are facing the same delema and suggest that those that sport hunting in theie lifestyle, better get prepared to hunt private or not at all.
I’m talking about a father taking his kid out to deer hunt as well. You maybe able to teach him how to camp and hike on public land, but what are you going to do about teaching him to hunt…….. when there are very few if any big game on public land…… specifically mule deer.
Also, can you teach him to hunt mule deer if he only gets a tag ever 6 to 7 years, due to the limited number of mule deer on public land?
So……. Where are the 50,000 sport hunters that are going to rise up and hold the bureaucrats accountable for loosing the mule deer population? I don’t see them, I see maybe a 100, and I see more than a thousand vocally supporting the bureaucrats……. supporting what they have done for 40 years and what they are continuing to do today…….. which is precious little. The bureaucrats own the mule deer decline and very very few sportsmen are doing anything to hold them accountable.
Right now it costs you more to ski, golf, car race, go to yoga or bowl, for a year, than to hunt mule deer…… too damn bad it’s getting expensive too. If you don’t like the cost now, hide and watch what it is going to cost you when you’ve squandered all the public land mule deer.
Better get ready hunters…….. this lifestyle is going to get way more expensive. Like it or not………and I don’t like it. Especially since it is 40 years of pure bullsh!t management that has caused it.