People are basically opportunistic. The easiest method is most favored. Up north there are canoe only area, "What about us powerboat people, that's not fare", like they are a different race or species. Sport of any kind is only a sport if it has built in limitations. As overrun as some of our area public lands get by multiple use and multiple overlapping seasons, it is barely worth it. It is all about money, like the fight I got into with a local state politician, that would not know which end of a BB gun to point or how to put a worm on a hook, about crossbows. He must have been paid good money to have such a strong opinion for them. We got our extended season based on the difficulty of the challenge, not because we are a game management tool. I saw a few tools, last week here in Iowa, repeatedly trying to shoot deer over a quarter mile to nearly a half mile away, then not bother to see if they hit anything. You cannot expect them to walk a half mile just to see if they hit something. A few years back an area game warden tried to cancel all gun seasons in his county because the majority of the hunters were out of control. Why should center fire muzzleloaders get special seasons, they have, or at least users think they have, more range than shotguns and most legalized rifles calibers? Money. Now if JD Berry and/or Nate Steen will crack open their wallets and pay all stateside Iowa politicians a few thousand dollars, the local state Rep, that would not know how to put an arrow on a bowstring, could get into yelling match about how there needed to be a longbow only season in Iowa.
Topic: Trad only season (Read 6889 times)
