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Unfortunately the program is turning the MH into another user group. You got your archery, muzzle loader, modern rifle and MH. That adds permit revenue and gives free labor to the WDFW.
Quote from: CP on January 05, 2011, 03:38:25 PMUnfortunately the program is turning the MH into another user group. You got your archery, muzzle loader, modern rifle and MH. That adds permit revenue and gives free labor to the WDFW.That is my problem with it. We "regular" hunters have lost opportunities to the MH's. We used to have some killer elk hunts in the Peshastin and Malaga units that anyone with an east side elk tag could apply for. We have lost both of those units to the MH program and I think that is a farce. I don't know much about the Kittitas MH elk hunt but from things I have heard and been told that go on there with what are supposed to be the cream of the crop it really makes me have my doubts about the whole program and the reasoning behind some of those those who are in the program.
It's great that some want to donate their time to WDFW but I don't believe that you should be awarded with special privileges that take away from other user groups because you do that. High Country, would you be in the program if you weren't given the opportunity to shoot extra deer and elk? I have no desire to be in this program and I shouldn't have to be in order to have an opportunity to hunt elk on public land.
it just seems that theres not alot of other hunters saying good things about the master hunters or the program .