I don't have a problem with BHA running the OM hunts. The state doesn't want to have to devote resources (or "just can't") to it so who else would be more perfect to oversee and run the organized hunts?? The state (or the hunting public) CANNOT afford (the risks) to open OM up to anyone that wants to freely hunt OM unchecked. Some idiot would be found jacking up a tree hunting in someone's backyard and the news would be all over it!
BHA has to get its arms around this undertaking somehow. They need to know who you are if you're going to hunt OM under BHA's supervision.
I am not a member of BHA but I support having to be a member of BHA if you're going to hunt OM.
I'm sure there will be some ethics, rules, regulations and bow proficiency involved if you want to hunt OM and somehow, these requirements will need to be monitored.
Most all of the hunters on Aldeer.com as well as Alabama hunters are good people but it only takes one lawbreaking, unethical person (I won't call them a hunter) with a bow doing something stupidly unethical to ruin it for all of us.
We live by the rules of the majority...Obama proved that, unfortunately. The majority of Alabama citizens are not hunters so in a situation that is as much of a public stage as the OM hunt is, we need to make sure that only responsible hunters are allowed to hunt and the only way to do that is go through some type of screening and interviewing process.
