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Should I be proud that I just bought the dang discover pass and am following the rules or should I be ashamed that I didn't remain defiant and buck the system because I don't believe in it.

PROUD
59 (34.3%)
ASHAMED
113 (65.7%)

Total Members Voted: 172

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Offline MikeWalking

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Re: Proud or Ashamed
« Reply #120 on: February 13, 2013, 02:10:33 PM »
3. Happy to see messed up, eroded, washed out trails get fixed real quick after it went into effect.  Noting the $$ came from the Pass.

Where?  I would be hard pressed to have seen or heard of improvements in my area.  Maybe that is what is keeping the grass mowed at the local parks?

Granite Mt and Snow Lake for starters

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Re: Proud or Ashamed
« Reply #121 on: February 13, 2013, 05:04:39 PM »
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At the end of the day....its only $35. Just buy the DP and hope your funds are used properly.

$35 to access an area to hunt (DP) versus paying a land owner $1500 to access an area to hunt, is a huge difference. I can buy 43 DP's a year for that price!

I know what you are saying "makes sense" but.......

How many times have we heard that we don't pay enough?  EVERYTHING is getting hiked and it seems opportunity keeps getting slashed.  To bend over and continue getting hozed while we hope that "it is used properly" isn't enough for some of us.  I may lose in a fight of a prison rape scene, but someone is getting punched in the mouth.

Yes, that sounds extreeme, but the non-stop increases in $ and decreases in anything good makes me bow out and avoid such a great deal.
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Re: Proud or Ashamed
« Reply #122 on: February 13, 2013, 05:27:09 PM »
What about post #63?

Let's be honest; people are complaining about having to buy a DP
Yes they are, however not as a result of the price as you suggested. ;)
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Re: Proud or Ashamed
« Reply #123 on: February 13, 2013, 05:33:47 PM »
I understand why you did not acknowledge post #63. Nobody likes to be proven wrong in a public forum. I probably wouldn't admit it either. No biggie! Good try thou! :tup:
His post seems relatively easy to comprehend, clearly describing the cost of all the passes he has to acquire each year combined, and not necessarily the $35 for the DP alone.

Perhaps I over estimate your reasoning abilities, my mistake. :dunno:
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Re: Proud or Ashamed
« Reply #124 on: February 14, 2013, 12:01:36 AM »
I understand why you did not acknowledge post #63. Nobody likes to be proven wrong in a public forum. I probably wouldn't admit it either. No biggie! Good try thou! :tup:
His post seems relatively easy to comprehend, clearly describing the cost of all the passes he has to acquire each year combined, and not necessarily the $35 for the DP alone.

Perhaps I over estimate your reasoning abilities, my mistake. :dunno:

You like many others on this site have all the answers and are never wrong. You the man!  :tup:

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Re: Proud or Ashamed
« Reply #125 on: February 14, 2013, 12:14:13 AM »
I understand why you did not acknowledge post #63. Nobody likes to be proven wrong in a public forum. I probably wouldn't admit it either. No biggie! Good try thou! :tup:
His post seems relatively easy to comprehend, clearly describing the cost of all the passes he has to acquire each year combined, and not necessarily the $35 for the DP alone.

Perhaps I over estimate your reasoning abilities, my mistake. :dunno:

You like many others on this site have all the answers and are never wrong. You the man!  :tup:
I freely admit I'm wrong quite often, just not in this case. ;)
The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those who got there first!

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Re: Proud or Ashamed
« Reply #126 on: February 14, 2013, 05:07:19 AM »
Haven't bought one and never will, of course it was easier for me since I lived near the ID border and even easier now that I'm in Virginia!  :):)  But when I move back there in a couple of years I won't be buying one then.  I'll just spend my money in ID, cost more, but at least in ID you get the sense you're appreciated and welcomed.
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Re: Proud or Ashamed
« Reply #127 on: February 14, 2013, 01:23:57 PM »
I understand why you did not acknowledge post #63. Nobody likes to be proven wrong in a public forum. I probably wouldn't admit it either. No biggie! Good try thou! :tup:
His post seems relatively easy to comprehend, clearly describing the cost of all the passes he has to acquire each year combined, and not necessarily the $35 for the DP alone.

Perhaps I over estimate your reasoning abilities, my mistake. :dunno:

You like many others on this site have all the answers and are never wrong. You the man!  :tup:
I freely admit I'm wrong quite often, just not in this case. ;)

You the man bro!  :tup:

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Re: Proud or Ashamed
« Reply #128 on: February 23, 2013, 08:58:03 PM »
They only thing that pisses me off about that the discover pass is that it goes into the general fund. I'm fine with supporting the wdfw, enforcement against poachers and  bio studies on game(ok the whole wolf thing is crap) etc. I just don't like the funds going to areas that the passes are not associated with.
Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and woods, in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves, are often in a more favorable mood for observing her, in the intervals of their pursuits, than philosophers or poets even, who approach her with expectation. She is not afraid to exhibit herself to them. Henry David Thoreau

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Re: Proud or Ashamed
« Reply #129 on: February 23, 2013, 11:19:30 PM »
YUP!  84% goes to our greedy Governor.  8% to WDFW.  Go figure?  Its nothing but a tax.
MAGA!  Again..

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Re: Proud or Ashamed
« Reply #130 on: February 24, 2013, 08:13:33 PM »
I didn't want to purchase a pass but where we camped for  the month of deer and elk DNR was checking Daily for passes so we had to very nice Camp ground with no fee because of the pass.

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Re: Proud or Ashamed
« Reply #131 on: February 24, 2013, 08:58:51 PM »
I feel your pain.  Its sour when you are in a pickle. :chuckle:
MAGA!  Again..

 


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