If I were owner of the site making nothing or virtually nothing, and had to watch people complain about decisions I made consistently, I'd probably just shut it down and enjoy my extra free time. It is becoming a common theme around here. Just use the site for what it is and enjoy the like minded people... And ignore the others.

Man oh man, if I was Matt, Jeremy, or Jon, I'd never answer another question regarding any thing with the dcnr or regulations.

Who cares if it will hold up in court? Do the vast majority of us not have a better understanding of the laws because of their posts? Sure, somebody might be confused and get a ticket. Tuff titty.... Imagine how many of us would have misunderstandings if Google and the rule book were our only resources.

Skinny, have you ever called a game warden to ask a legal question? How well do you think a non recorded phone call will hold up in court if you misunderstood? Specifically If it's a different game warden........

This whole thing is dumb

we wouldn't be having this conversation if certain palms were being greased

Yep.....definitely all about the money....we wouldn't be having this conversation if certain palms were being greased.

I wasnt even talking about the silly fact that they want us to go online to get another number to go with the number we purchased.

I was talking about the fact that I do not think it is right to allow the DCNR to continue to advertise their products on here for free and that I am going to have to do something about it. They typically pay magazines and other media outlets to dictate to, err.. "inform", the public what we are supposed to be doing and we are letting them do it here for free. That is going to change.

Here ya go.....now tell me it ain't about the money!

Its not about asking for money or getting them to pay up.

It is about them being official or not being official. Matt Brock and Nighthunter and the others are nice guys. But them posting as "official" DCNR reps during their off-hours does not mean anything more than me telling you the price of a bushel corn (which I know nothing about), but I can sound "official" about it.

The DCNR has had for many years made it a very official policy of not being an active participating member of Aldeer, and the reason being is that they are scared of talking and dealing with the regular public face-to-face directly.

But doing it indirectly, through Matt and Nighthunter, seems good-enough for the guys in Montgomery. When it comes time to give you a ticket because you misunderstood something you read on Aldeer from an "un-official-but-protrayed-as-official" source ends up biting you in the field and the courtroom do not complain to me.

So if the DCNR wants to use Aldeer as a place to communicate hunting regulations, which seem to change at a moments notice these days, then they need to man-up and do it officially. Otherwise, they need to go away and let us continue to bitch about what a horrible job they are doing.

Here ya go.....now tell me it ain't about the money!

jeeeze louise

Montgomery does NOT tell any employees to get on here on their own time and answer questions, matter of fact they would prefer they NOT get on here.

and not one damn thing any of them has said on here will stand up in court if you get arrested. NOT ONE THING.

Care to elaborate? Big accusation.

Its all about money. The DCNR implements all this wordy bullschit into a simple activity to collect revenue and disguise it as research. If you wanna tell me its not about revenue, screw off. Its another ticket to write.

Look up the studies they do on the rivers. Most are 9-10 pages of third grade reading material. Meanwhile, municipalities dump sewage, businesses dump hundreds of gallons of sulfuric acid into the black warrior river, and there's no quote from them on that. They want to talk about the new dumbass monitoring program they're rolling out. On average hunters.