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Time for all bowhunters to move on and address the more significant problems and issues we face. Lets get united and stand up for our seasons and achieving the goal of improving our time in the woods as bowhunters, expand our seasons, get back what we once had, open more GMU's...
I don't think the small minority of trad hunters should be able to dictate what the overwhelming majority of archery hunters overall can and can't do, that's just my opinion.
Quote from: huntnphool on April 17, 2012, 02:04:42 PMI don't think the small minority of trad hunters should be able to dictate what the overwhelming majority of archery hunters overall can and can't do, that's just my opinion.Take out the trad and you might be right. There were and are plenty of compound users also against lighted nocks, this is not just a trad versus modern issue.
In general, I don't think hunter's opinions should have too much weight in the setting of hunting seasons and rules. If they did everything hunters wanted, we'd have general rifle seasons for elk from September 15 to September 30, and general rifle season for deer would be November 1 to November 30.
Quote from: bobcat on April 17, 2012, 02:30:34 PMIn general, I don't think hunter's opinions should have too much weight in the setting of hunting seasons and rules. If they did everything hunters wanted, we'd have general rifle seasons for elk from September 15 to September 30, and general rifle season for deer would be November 1 to November 30.Why waste everybody's time with polls then. I do agree in a sense, they shouldn't manage based on public opinion, but it doesn't make sense to have polls and just dismiss them either.
I love how people get so pissy about little things, if you dont want to use them dont, I see no problem with help recovering an arrow in the forest and also being able to easier seeing your shot. Why is that a bad thing?
Phool, there seemed to be some issues with the survey and the accuracy. The parameters for getting a survey was supposed to be elk and deer license for the previous ( I think?) 3 years, however hundreds if not thousands of bowhunters who met those parameters did not receive the survey, including some very influential people within our State government. If you look, out of the 24,000 that met the surveys requirements only 10% answered, that raised many an eyebrow. As Matt stated above there are alternatives on the market of legal lighted nocks, no batteries.
I don't like a lot of the decisions the commission has made lately:1) Approving the category system of special permits2) Adopting the wolf plan3) Not allowing Lighted nocksPersonally, I think they are doing a lousy job. They have lost all credibility in my mind. (They really shouldn't do polls and waste time and money. They will do what they want anyway).
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