Anybody from Mississippi?

[Don Stokes]

I would think that the manufacturers' lobby would be working hard to fight it. Sales will go down the tubes for "alternative" deer killing equipment if everything is combined.

Renewing my membership today.

[joebuck]

My last MBA baquet, Fred bear was the guest speaker!!........single season.......gosh that and baiting is very distrubing to me.  Mark , whose side is Bobby Cleveland on for the Clarion Ledger on these two topics?

[Stringwacker]

Don,

I wouldn't count on the archery manufacturers to get too politically involved based on my experiance. (If it mattered a great deal, then the CVA's, Knights, etc's of the world would have stopped the 'centerfire' primitive weapons season. Black powder rifle sales are dead in this state.) The archery manufacturers tend to work through the ATA and all the ATA can do at the moment is to promote crossbow legislation. BTW, crossbow legalization also plays well into the concept of the liberalization of equipment regs by the state.

Joebuck,
Bobby is against baiting but has tempered his rhetoric on the subject as of late. As far as a single season format, that's not really public knowledge at this point. It's a legislative issue and it's a slipperly slope proposition based on time and speed. I don't neccesarily see this as a covert plan of the legislature or the MDWFP...but rather an acknowledgement that wildlife biology has changed and the future will reflect it.

In the past there were more people wanting to hunt than the resource could tolerate...so 'special seasons' based on a restricted harvest were created. That need is no longer in play as we have the need for more harvest than we have hunters. Special seasons have become partly the nemesis of wildlife management and they exist only based on a desire of sportsmen to have them.

All that has to be done is to change the desire of sportsmen and condition them to accept change. That is being done nicely in this state by evidence of recent equipment regulation changes.

The effort to preserve the future of bowhunting in this state is about to get much harder.

[Don Stokes]

I guess this is one time that the special interest groups should band together to do us all some good. I won't hold my breath...

[Jedimaster]

Remember it is MS.  The most politically corrupt state in the union.  Whoever has the deepest pockets gets thier way.  Whoever has the brother-in-law that needs a favor wins.  The rest of us are just background noise.  Sorry for my cynicism,  I love my state and it truly is time for good men to be heard.  I'd like to see things go a different direction than they typically do.  Legislators that hear and care about their constituants would be refreshing.

[Don Stokes]

Jedi, we recently took the title from Louisiana, the former most politically corrupt state. Go Mississippi! We also have the most grossly overweight people in the country.

I love it here too, and it's nice to know we excel at something! About the only thing good I can think of to say about the politics here, is that the entertainment value is high. Like an episode of Hee Haw, without the girls.

[Jedimaster]

  Don, we definitely have the best sense of humor as well!  

I think the weight issue just goes to prove we have the best food too.  So those are two more things that are tops about MS.