FW gets money from oil and gas leases. A few extra dollars from us wouldn't help much for the money needed to buy property. I heard 3500 people signed up for an SOA hunt last year. I'd like to see more opened up like the regular old go in there and hunt when you want to type places.....and don't open the gates for folks to tear up the roads, get lost and wander off the property.
Could not agree more. I am staunchly opposed to the SOA program(despite the fact that I did register for several hunts) If the goal is to get more people involved in hunting, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me that you would take true public land and make it available to only a select group of people that got lucky enough to draw a tag. I know the old argument is "low pressure, better experience, etc.' but it just makes so much more sense to me to just make more land available to everyone. Those SOA's are bigger than a lot of hunting clubs.
