Have the Pro-Restriction Regulation Anti-hunters Won?

[ridge]

They have forced their restrictive bit into the mouths of all of the hunters in the NW and the NE.  Perhaps they will force it on the entire state as they dream about doing.  The average hunter will soon tire of being run into the ground by that exclusive better-than-anyone-else group.  The average hunter will tire of wondering whether their meat is tainted by one disease or another.  They will wonder what will be forced on them next.  It is not easy to hunt when a person has to constantly look over your shoulder thinking what might be coming up behind you.

The PRRA as I shall call them have won nothing.  They have created a divide among hunters that may never heal.  They have opened the door for the other anti hunters to force the commission into doing things or to go to the courts to demand them.  They also have the history of the voting booth.

The PRRA have opened the door to the spread of disease and for the ever increasing decline in the number of hunters in this state.  I wonder how the berry picking, horseback riding, photo taking public will like paying to use their public lands.  The PRRA have shown that money and enough selfish desire can accomplish most anything in the outdoors of Michigan.  Will they enjoy it when someone uses their tactics against them?  They have shown the way. Someone will come along.  It is just a matter of when it will happen.

Like Pandora they have opened the box, the chest, will they have won anything when it all comes back to hit them in the face. The PRRA will have won nothing but the right to be called the ones that killed deer hunting in Michigan.  I am so glad that I have not won that right. There will never be enough antlers to hang on the wall to make that right enjoyable!

[swampy]

I Would not be surprised if the anti's use this issue to challenge the SFWMA, if the NRC goes ahead with the trophy hunting social agenda.

[hartman756]

Back when the HSUS started the big push to stop the wolf hunt was also around the same time the MARs moratorium was lifted and the QDMers started there push . There was no doubt they were following the QDMers as they started using some of the same phrases and arguments right up to the CEO of the HSUS. It was almost as if they were one and the same at times and it would not surprise me if that were true when it is all said and done . If you step back and take a look at what so many of the QDMers have said and done to fellow hunters it could very well be that many of them are really antis just pretending to be hunters knowing that causing infighting  and division furthers their agenda . 

[daappleknocker]

Be careful Chris, if you remember I got banned for LIFE from another site for calling the pro-QDM'ers anti-hunters.  LOL

[Dale Malusi]

The "people" behind the push for restrictions know that with a smaller herd, fewer hunters will target deer.
That is their ultimate goal. They say bigger deer is, but IMHO it is to get rid of the hunters that don't hunt to their standards.

But I don't think they have won. They may get their way.
But nobody is going to win. Well, hunters anyway.

I'll say this, deer hunting isn't going to be as bad as everyone says it will be if Maprs aren't enacted. People harvest deer of all sizes every year. We just have too many deer hunters for every one to get a wallhanger.

It won't be so bad if they are enacted. Not much will change. Sure Bio's percentages will be improved, but will the harvest change in the real world? I doubt it. There will be fewer deer hanging and more deer processed and in the freezer ASAP. Since most deer are harvested on private lands, I suspect more pole barns will be locked to keep out prying eyes.

But it will be okay because Bio's numbers prove him right.