Friday, January 07, 2005
Wisconsin DNR hates bowhunters?
Heard from a dedicated Wisconsin Bowhunter today - Dan Infall who writes:
"Does the Wisconsin DNR hate bowhunters?
Lets see if I got his right, They decided to whack a huge percentage of the deer in my hunting area deeming it CWD land ( Even though no deer where found in my entire county haveing the disease).
So in order to kill all these deer they decided to make more opportuniies for hunters.
#1) They are opening bow season a week later than last year.
#2) October 28th they open gun season untill March. I could compete against all the gun hunters if I wear blaze orange and feel like putting up with the spookyist deer in the world.
#3) gun season when bow hunters normally rut hunt.
#4) So I get about 1 month of early season hunting, and they were gracius enough to force me to try and whack a doe before Im allowed to kill a buck.
Yep. they must hate bowhunters."
Dan also writes about Gun Safety:
"Ok, so the DNR has decided to wipe out the herd in S.E. Wisc. all in the name of CWD.
Lets consider the safety issues once.
No limits in the CWD area with the exception of shooting a does to get buck tags.
So you draw in a ton of hunters into a small area who can shoot any deer they see. If "its brown its down", type of guys. The woods was full of tons of guys, some sitting, some driving and pushing. One guy gets a doe, then they can shoot anything. (The season lasts over a month with all these gun hunters but the media never lets the general public know.) So, we ended up with rabbit and pheasant hunters all over the woods and fields without orange on. I even stopped a pheasant hunter and warned him, he was wearing all brown!!!!
And... Catch this, if they find a deer in the area that actualy has the disease, they open it up for RIFLES..... Did they forget why they outlawed rifles in these suburban areas in the 1st place? SAFETY!!!
How about only shooting bucks with at least 4 points on one side? or at least 8 pointers? You know a size slot? Let a couple small ones make it, this will be more appealing to hunters knowing there will be even bigger bucks the next year, and now a guy has to MAKE SURE OF HIS TARGET.
But we wouldn't want it to be a little safer out there would we???????"
Dan Infalt
"Does the Wisconsin DNR hate bowhunters?
Lets see if I got his right, They decided to whack a huge percentage of the deer in my hunting area deeming it CWD land ( Even though no deer where found in my entire county haveing the disease).
So in order to kill all these deer they decided to make more opportuniies for hunters.
#1) They are opening bow season a week later than last year.
#2) October 28th they open gun season untill March. I could compete against all the gun hunters if I wear blaze orange and feel like putting up with the spookyist deer in the world.
#3) gun season when bow hunters normally rut hunt.
#4) So I get about 1 month of early season hunting, and they were gracius enough to force me to try and whack a doe before Im allowed to kill a buck.
Yep. they must hate bowhunters."
Dan also writes about Gun Safety:
"Ok, so the DNR has decided to wipe out the herd in S.E. Wisc. all in the name of CWD.
Lets consider the safety issues once.
No limits in the CWD area with the exception of shooting a does to get buck tags.
So you draw in a ton of hunters into a small area who can shoot any deer they see. If "its brown its down", type of guys. The woods was full of tons of guys, some sitting, some driving and pushing. One guy gets a doe, then they can shoot anything. (The season lasts over a month with all these gun hunters but the media never lets the general public know.) So, we ended up with rabbit and pheasant hunters all over the woods and fields without orange on. I even stopped a pheasant hunter and warned him, he was wearing all brown!!!!
And... Catch this, if they find a deer in the area that actualy has the disease, they open it up for RIFLES..... Did they forget why they outlawed rifles in these suburban areas in the 1st place? SAFETY!!!
How about only shooting bucks with at least 4 points on one side? or at least 8 pointers? You know a size slot? Let a couple small ones make it, this will be more appealing to hunters knowing there will be even bigger bucks the next year, and now a guy has to MAKE SURE OF HIS TARGET.
But we wouldn't want it to be a little safer out there would we???????"
Dan Infalt
