We get feedback from both sides. I take it all. Everything that comes in is taken into consideration, and personnel has changed a lot on BW in the last few years. It has had a lot if turnover. I don't plan on going anywhere. I want to make the place as good as it's potential allows. What exactly are the problems you see with Warrior? Other than saying quit changing everything, you were not specific.

Your two cents are worthless.

We get feedback from both sides. I take it all. Everything that comes in is taken into consideration, and personnel has changed a lot on BW in the last few years. It has had a lot if turnover. I don't plan on going anywhere. I want to make the place as good as it's potential allows. What exactly are the problems you see with Warrior? Other than saying quit changing everything, you were not specific.

That last time that mofo gave me his two cents it came with a pack of dogs.

I'm sorry for doing my job. I came in just under three years ago, saw some things that needed changing, got a LOT of feedback from hunters, collected data to support the changes, and did as my job requires. I guess leaving everything alone and status quo is better? That is why you READ the permit. If you read it every year, then changes are not a big deal. If anything, hunting on BW WMA should be less confusing than when I got there, but since people don't read the permit, it's been a big cluster. I'm not going to go into details, but I get asked questions on a daily basis about simple things that are answered on the first paragraph of the permit, if people would just read it.

Maybe its because too many WMA hunters cant read???

Hey, hey... I had no idea that folks had started using that place as the neighborhood pound. I enjoyed hunting that particular tract just two year prior. I think TC baited them in with his hitch pooper, you know dogs and rolling in poop.

Fortunately they were all mature 3+ year old dogs.

Matt, I really don't have the time to get into details at the moment but there is a lot of things that I don't get. A few things that come to mind are; no youth hunt, inconsistent antler restrictions between zones, inconsistent hunt dates and length from year to year, sometimes you need a permit from the check station, sometimes you don't, etc, etc.

I will have to set down and look at several years of permits and get my head wrapped around it all. Maybe I'll just get with you in person sometime? I don't want you to think I am just picking on you or Black Warrior on here but if you add all the constant changes to state regs along with the changes to black warrior every year it can make a man wonder whether or not he remembers everything and is hunting legally each time he goes on a hunt.

I would like to add though, I do like some of the changes that have been made recently like the opposite zone of a gun hunt being open to archery and small game. It gives people who don't want to fight the crowd more opportunity to hunt.

On a side note...I saw Ron Eaks write about 10 asian guys from Huntsville tickets for squirrel hunting on zone A when there was a gun hunt on B. I think they had 42 squirrels or something like that, poor guys was probably just trying to keep they're Chinese restaurant a float...."Tree Rat on A Stick"

I'll address some of that. On the youth hunt, I don't have an answer to that one. Maybe it has been done before there before my time? I haven't changed that since coming along, but am certainly not opposed to having one. We do have a youth turkey hunt and get a small handful of hunters on over 90,000 acres. I guess it's good for the 6 that show up, but I haven't seen a turkey killed on the youth hunt in three years.

Difference in antler regs comes from there being two zones. Zone A is mostly in the wilderness, what isn't in wilderness is under some other type of least management necessary agreement, so I can't touch that. Because we have no control or input on the habitat management on Zone A, we do not require antler regs. Whatever is state legal is good. I am in full support of that. I like having an area where hunters can hunt without fear of breaking an antler reg. They can kill whatever they want to. Zone B is different. We do more active timber management, record more data, and have antler restrictions to increase the number of older age class bucks. To me it's the best of both worlds. Deer hunters that don't care what they kill and have only a few days to hunt each year can hunt Zone A. Hunters who are more selective hunt Zone B. But I will say this, from what I've seen there is no difference in the trophy potential from either Zone.

When I got there the hunt dates were all over the board, and there were hunts on both Zones that required daily permits and map permits. It was confusing. I ASSUMED by making all Zone B hunts daily permits, and all Zone A hunts map/permits some of the confusion would be minimalized. Boy was I wrong. From talking to the hunters who are the most confused it's clearly no fault of mine. Majority of them ADMITTED to not reading a dang word on the permit. It states three times on that permit that Zone A hunts are map/permits, Zone B hunts are daily permits.

Those Asian guys are still at it! I see them every year on opening day now hunting the opposite Zone. They crack me up. They are as excited to be out there as any person I've ever seen.

AND put a stop to all the non-hunting 4 wheeler riding!

We trap on black warrior from May-August, and remove more hogs than hunters do on all combined hunts.

Here is the problem, and it's not speculation, paranoia, government over reach, or anything like that. It's a simple fact. When you give people an opportunity to hunt hogs there is a segment of that group that will do anything to make sure that opportunity always exist. The more liberal hog seasons and regs are the MORE hogs you have. I'm not making this stuff. It's the truth. We've finally started to see a difference on BW after three years if fine tuning our trapping efforts, and being methodical about it, instead of just running and gunning.

This times 100. Never understood why they can ride during deer season but not in the summer. Sure seems like a good way to p!$$ a bunch of people off and get someone shot. We ran into a whole crew who were just joy riding this past Saturday.

We trap on black warrior from May-August, and remove more hogs than hunters do on all combined hunts.

Here is the problem, and it's not speculation, paranoia, government over reach, or anything like that. It's a simple fact. When you give people an opportunity to hunt hogs there is a segment of that group that will do anything to make sure that opportunity always exist. The more liberal hog seasons and regs are the MORE hogs you have. I'm not making this stuff. It's the truth. We've finally started to see a difference on BW after three years if fine tuning our trapping efforts, and being methodical about it, instead of just running and gunning.

I would like some of the wma's go to draw hunts instead of a free for all. This would work great on smaller wma's I think.