Opinion On New Hunters

[Smokey Bear]

We need as many new, but responsible hunters as we can get, that vote! It’s a no brainer. The anti’s are taking everything away.

 

[Howdoyoulikemenow]

The internet, social media and YouTube videos have to a great extent ruined hunting for me. I’ve always felt that hunting was a personal endeavor as we all hunt for our own reasons. I hunt so ultimately I take an animal’s life. But I don’t want to watch a video of an elk dying sometimes not very humanly. They will die. I just don’t want a video of their death throes as the life is leaving their body. Given the attacks by anti-hunters increasing each year I feel we as a group are nailing our own coffin by posting every damn thing on the internet. I just do not understand that mentality.

We need hunter recruitment, young, adult onset, women and minorities. Our strength and perhaps obligation is to educate them all to be good representatives for hunting and stewards of our wild places.

 

[Wolfshead]

I, selfishly, would like to see less hunters in my area, for lack of competition.
The truth is that more hunters is a better choice as has been stated for many reasons, many also stated.
I feel as though hunting is going the way of the wealthy. I can’t hunt some of the places I used to. The field I took my Buck off last season is under attack from someone who wants to lease it now. A lot of rural private land is being turned into wind and solar farms, etc….
Fortunately I have public near me I can use, but there is some significant competition there too.
The landscape of hunting is changing and those with the funds are starting to dictate that. The average hunter is the one who is going to lose out because they will not be able to compete with the more well to do hunters.
Never hunted out west, but from some things I’ve read, it is becoming increasingly more expensive to just get a tag, and that is usually off a lottery.
Along with other costs.

 

[Elkangle]

Your a new hunter to someone, anyone in the less hunters camp please lead by example and stop hunting

 

[Mr.Ktm]

Everyone saying no, acts they weren’t a “new” hunter at some point. I was a new hunter when I was 8. Some start early, some start late. We are stronger in numbers