BMI, i sure hope you are on blood pressure meds as you are going to have a gasser if you don't stop to breath every once in awhile!!
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Actually, it's New Years Eve, and I plan to get smashed, especially after this past weeks fiasco's.
It's going to be 2020, but I don't consider as monumental as the year 2000.
Which back then, found me running in my BDay suit for 8 blocks some where in frickin Surrey (exact location is a blur!?).
Yup, the first block was awkward but by the 8th block, have to admit felt pretty "Liberating"!
Only mistake was I showed up to the house party in cowboy boots.
A no go for running, so bare foot I went.
Other 5 guys had runners on.
I dealt with the pain as there is safety in #'s.
Getting left behind seemed independently insecure!
Just have a hang over for 2 days if all goes as planned.
Not worried about Uber, only 2 blocks to walk.
I am assuming this time I will be clothed.
Great post WB. Its crazy to see how CWD rates have sky-rocketed in a lot of areas in Alberta. Makes it a real ethical struggle on what to do when trying to plan a hunt over there.
I'm personally alright with the ban on baiting/feeding and am happy that whitetail doe numbers have been reduced in the Kootenays. Somehow if I said that in a public area in the Kootenays I feel I'd be strung up for not 'falling in line' with the common thinking.
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^^^^^WB's post is a good one.
I just don't think taking baby steps is going to be useful.
You have a wildfire on the horizon, that has burnt a lot of ground already.
You don't go dig a little ditch and hope it helps.
You jump in both feet, cut a mile perimeter, and then you got a chance.
If limiting infection due to no cure is the game plan, then EVERYONE has to be on board.
Not just expecting hunters to make a difference.
Then the Cattle Assoc. and whoever else one can think of, has to play with the same rules.
Then, I would support it.
But, isn't that always the issue, the hunting community gets restricted while other causing the majority of the damage carry on.
Cattle guys hate elk on their hay, etc etc, and we know how much they have affected herds of many species.
Don't expect them to play ball without a huge fight.
And why, because cwd doesn't affect cattle, so why care.
And who is going to tell them to fall into line???
No one.
Not trying to poke at some of the members here on HBC that are cattle folk, I like some of them.
But it's hard to put it nicely sometimes.
If the government, like the NDP can ban the Gbear hunt, which they did then there is always a chance down the road that sheep/goat
could be as well...one day.
There is no science that said we needed to ban gbear for conservation reasons.
It was a ban based on enough anti hunters no longer wanting this hunt in the province and arguments that it wasn't for food purposes.
Just a "trophy hunt"
And I had George Heyman at my door, twice!
And in a nutshell, that was why during the upcoming election they had stated in their platform they would close GBear.
Now, if they can close GBear, they can also look at a few other species.
The argument of climbing a steep mountain just to bring a goat or sheep down for meat, I not reasonable in their eyes, thus another
trophy hunt.
Heyman was like "I have friends who hunt, I support the meat hunt" type statements to me directly.
Meat Hunt being the important words in his statement.
We also ended up having to bring ribs and neck out now too, the full animal.
Not many sheep or goat hunters were doing that.
See where this was going in his words now?!
As for good bye EK GO's.
They aint making a whole lot of money with their elk and moose hunts these days.
The GO around me said if it wasn't for his Goat hunt, he would be in financial trouble.
Actually, he said it was so bad that he needed to get a real job for most of the year now.
(his words, not mine)
I am sure making money in the GO industry is challenging right now in the EK.
You know as well as I do, it aint great in there.
Their sheep and goat hunts from his words were the most viable to staying in business.
So, if Heyman gets another run of 4 years, and the Anti start looking at another animal to take off the hunting list, who knows what
the ndp will do??
We already see a backlash in the past to Cougar Hunting.
Your guess is as good as mine on what will be the next species on the cutting room floor.
But I am pretty certain we haven't seen the end of it with the NDP in power.
Anything else I missed???
Your welcome H.
Like I say, it is just conversations I had with one GO.
But I know around him there are atleast 3 other GO's and I suspect their elk and moose issue is no different and most likely also rely on sheep/goat.
I believe him to be straight up as I don't think anyone wants to say they are in rough shape, business wise.
I also know he received 5 or 6 more goat permits because not enough residents were applying for those tags for years.
Odds were always like 0.5:1.
If you applied you got it.
I think now it is 1:1?
Would have to look at this years LEH to see past years odds to confirm.
The one big mistake he made, and doesn't bold well for the "Trophy" aspect of hunting was:
For one, he hadn't filled his GBear tag that was allocated him before the ban came into effect.
Nor was he acquiring clients for BBear hunts.
His reason, his words, was waiting for the bears to "grow bigger".
That was said to me the last season before GBear ban went into effect.
I also told him, if you aint going to take some BBear, I was going to get a tag.
And I have.
And this past season I witnessed more BBear then ever...10X as many (maybe just a lucky year?)
But, words like letting them grow bigger, or having that philosophy isn't going to help hunting in the future in the Anti's eyes, imo.
Hey BMI sorry to hear your GO friend is having to get a job, maybe line him up with BV, he seems to be doing real well, well enough to go on trophy hunts to Africa and support their country
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Trump will win big time in 2020
Why is it that rednecks from Alberta can't get enough of men in dresses, they simply lose their shit