Anti Hunters taking the survey...

[dreamingbig]

Gee, great.  The write in comments are loaded with antihunting comments.

some examples:

"eliminate all hunting"  "Thou shalt not kill" "stop the hunting" "no elk hunting period" "there is no reason for a hunter to need to kill an elk"  It goes on and on from here.  Do they really have to post them?

Here is a link to them. http://wdfw.wa.gov/hunting/regulations/seasonsetting/

[kckrawler]

What a failure!!!  And that's the reason they're requiring Wild ID's in the new survey.

[dreamingbig]

Looking at it again, I would say 30%+ of the write in comments are from anti hunters.  Agreed, they needed to lock it down to hunters only for valid results.

[JimmyHoffa]

I think requiring a Wild ID is a good start.  Although the antis have been buying licenses to try to get all the special permits, so some will have a Wild ID, but it will be far fewer.  Also, with the Wild ID you can track how many of the comments were made from the same person.  If you look at those comments, many were made within the same time frame like a group of similar comments all 2 minutes apart.  Kind of reminds me of that wolf plan survey where a large portion of comments were from Florida or Maryland.

[WAcoyotehunter]

You can see the canned "12% harvest of cougar" answers in that section...lame survey.

[Special T]

I sent the WDFW a positive email about requirieng the Wild ID#. Sicne it helps them decipher hunters form activists... I would send them a short positive note. 

[WAcoyotehunter]

good idea- i think I'll do the same thing. 

[coyotewallace]

Looking at it again, I would say 30%+ of the write in comments are from anti hunters.  Agreed, they needed to lock it down to hunters only for valid results.

 

[pianoman9701]

email sent to the director and commissioners:

"Dear Sirs (and Madams),

I wanted to thank you for adding the Wild ID requirement on the surveys that we were notified about this morning. I believe that will go a long way to getting a true picture of what the state's hunters really feel about the questions asked, instead of skewing results with responses from anyone who has a bug in the wrong place. Thank you so much. I do feel like you're listening to us on this.

Most Sincerely,
John W"

[blackhorn]

Nice work Pianoman!  How is that the anti's even find these surveys?  Must be pretty hard core, especially with the numbers that responded... pretty eye opening!

[bearpaw]

Nice work Pianoman!  How is that the anti's even find these surveys?  Must be pretty hard core, especially with the numbers that responded... pretty eye opening!

Antihunting is a religion, religions have caused most wars in the world. Does this help you to understand why they are so determined to stop hunting.

[asl20bball]

Nice work Pianoman!  How is that the anti's even find these surveys?  Must be pretty hard core, especially with the numbers that responded... pretty eye opening!

Antihunting is a religion, religions have caused most wars in the world. Does this help you to understand why they are so determined to stop hunting.

I just figured they hate animals so they'd rather them die a slow brutal death due to overpopulation and winterkill and then the predators die due to starvation   

[bigpaw]

I wonder how many anti-hunters buy a tag and put in for special permits because they are keeping one more hunter from killing a deer or elk if they draw it.

[seth30]

I wonder how many anti-hunters buy a tag and put in for special permits because they are keeping one more hunter from killing a deer or elk if they draw it.

probaly a lot of them.