If you go back to the beginning of this debacle, no one cared to ask what the rank and file hunters thought or how we felt about how we would be affected. "Study groups" composed of members of special interests groups met and made their proposals relying to a large degree on a survey of 18,000 Alabama Wildlife Federation members in support of their agenda.
There were around 250,000 licensed hunters who were never surveyed for their input. The directors at the DCNR had little input and were opposed to the changes. They expressed concern that fewer deer hunters and fewer deer being killed would be a result.
It's easy to pull numbers out of the air and say a majority of hunters across Alabama support this qdm crap. Until I see the results of an independent survey that includes all hunters, not just members of a special interest group, then I will know the truth. No such survey exists because it was never conducted.
