Originally posted by Wade: [b] OK, my time to gripe even if it is a litte late in the thread...
I've hunted a few of the OM hunts in the past. My biggest gripe with the old system was that with 80 hunters, plus alternates, and there was never that many people that showed up. There was a mandatory meeting the first morning of each hunt. Never had 80 there when I was present. And, by the afternoon of the second day, once everybody saw there wasn't a 10 point behind every tree, the woods were practically empty. Heck, if you were drawn at least have the decency to show up and hunt.
Look, there will be rules to every State Park hunt ever held in this State. Learn the rules, apply if you want to hunt, else get on a website and complain.
I can't believe they are counting these bucks in our three per year limit, not letting me use a laser sight, making me use a safety belt, not letting me use corn, not allowing me to use my super duper remotely triggered crossbow, not letting me use poison pods, not letting me just club them with a 7 iron. Geez, what limitations will they think of next?
Regarding the money, the daily guest fee at my hunting club is more than $10.
That's an easy problem to fix. If you want 80 hunters and you know only 50% of those drawn generally show up, you draw 160 names and you will end up with around 80 hunters.
The state know that so when they drew 80 names, hopefully they knew that 80 would not show up and had taken that into account. [/b]
And just how do you know that 80 won't show up? What if all 160 show up and you have to turn 80 around at 4:00 AM after they have taken off of work and driven a long way! I bet you would be dang popular then!
I have said it before and I am going to say it again. It is REAL easy to sit on the sidelines and complain. But, it is a entirely different ball game when you have to get in there and run the plays. The lottery wasn't working. If this doesn't work, I am sure the DCNR will try something else.
But, we are trying to do what was asked of us and we are going to try and make it a success. Each hunter had a choice to make, they could join in or sit out. I just don't understand those that want to sit out but still complain.
