Re: Hunters for BC
Originally Posted by
HighCountryBC
Muliechaser,
Here's one for you - How is it that at one time hunter numbers in BC were twice (yes, twice) what they are today, we had any mule deer buck for 3 months, GOS elk seasons 3pt or better to November 15 in R8, liberal seasons everywhere you looked and yet had booming ungulate numbers?
Simple - we had quality habitat and whacked predators. 30+ years of reducing seasons and pushing for regulation restrictions hasn't fixed a damn thing. We need to focus on making more wildlife. Continuing to divide up a shrinking pie is a waste of time but some people still refuse to see that.
Kudos to organizing HUNTERS FOR BC
I've been hunting in BC since '65 & yes there were many more hunters & the seasons much longer with fewer restrictions.
Still remember the good old days when hunters commonly displayed their harvested animals on their vehicles. LT(LOVER 308 ) & I showed off our 2 moose on top of my VW one year.
We were very successful in hunting.
Then the Omineca model was introduced for moose in the early 80's by some think he knows it all dude & things went downhill thereafter.
Then other problems cropped up-
Again as I said many times before present game management means squat without the FN harvest report.
Night hunting must be stopped asap & indiscriminate year round, night & day slaughter must be curtailed.
Bear numbers must be drastically reduced.
They have been proven to be extremely efficient calf killers some killing dozens in the first few weeks.
“People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.” -Otto von Bismarck
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.-Albert Einstein