I think some of you guys would only be happy if there were ZERO laws to govern the sport. I'm not a left wing liberal, socialist or a communist but without any laws at all it would be the wild west with no limits at all. The "if its brown its down" crowd would kill as many as they could and the resource would be destroyed for everyone. If there were no laws then there would be no outlaws. I think some of you guys are simply criminals and would rather legalize your criminal activities than face the facts of who you are and make a change.
If a guy invests his hard work, time and money into making his piece of property be as good as it can be and then happens to be next door to an asshole who feels it is his god given right to kill as many as he possibly can including does and bucks of any size/age with no limits, THAT IS BULLSHIT!!!!!! Our current system does almost nothing to stop or at least detour this type of person who has ZERO respect for either the resource or his neighbors.
I agree with you in general, but consider how far some states take it where strict regulations have been the norm for years. Here's a jewel I found in the Maine turkey hunting regulations:
>>>*Beginning in 2015, turkey hunters in WMDs 1-6 are assigned to either Season A or Season B based on their year of birth. During “odd” numbered calendar years such as 2015, hunters with “odd” birth years will be authorized to hunt during Season A (May 4-9, 2015 and May 18-23, 2015 this year); hunters with “even” birth years will be authorized to hunt during Season B (May 11-16, 2015 and May 25-30, 2015). All turkey hunters can hunt the last week (June 1-6, 2015).
During “even” numbered calendar years (2016, 2018, etc.), hunters with “even” birth years will be authorized to hunt during Season A; hunters with “odd” birth years will be authorized to hunt during Season B<<<<
Such nonsense as this eventually comes about when you start down the road of more and more regulations. And an important point about Maine turkey hunting is that a hunter can legally kill 2 gobblers and 2 more of either sex when you combine the fall and spring seasons. They could have a simple spring season like AL with a generous limit and kill the same number of turkeys, but govt doesn't want simple - it wants more and more regulations so that it appears to be more and more necessary.
Surely there is a middle ground between no regulation and excessive regulation? Oh wait, that's kinda what we had for the first 40 years of my hunting career.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
