What happend to the MANY big changes the DFG talked to us about at the Stakeholders Meeting about three years ago? One was maybe two or three late tags for each zone. They said if this was passed, it would mean a lot less tags for that zone. The general feeling I got from the hunters there was let's do it. I hunt near Bakersfield in a D Zone. The season here opens about 2 weeks too early, the last week it was still in the 90s. I wish someone would look at the season here and move it back, even if we got fewer tags and had to wait a year or two to get a tag.
Just my 2 cents.
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John Thome
California
What's Their Business
I read your article about the License and Revenue Branch in Sacramento no longer selling licenses in Sacramento. I thought you should know that the Belmont Marine Region DFG office has also stopped selling licenses.
The Belmont office might actually make a bit of sense as its main function is for marine purposes. However, the License and Revenue Branch not selling hunting licenses would seem to be akin to a butcher not selling beef, pork or chicken.
I applaud the CWA for trying to reverse the decision.
Bill Tidwell
California Master Hunter Education Instructor
Thanks
Thank you for this service. I'm a Western Hunter faithful.
Mike Helms
Trophies
I often see pictures and read stories of great hunting from everywhere, trophy bucks and elk that hunters of skill have taken.
Some of these end up in record books because of their size. My question is, if a hunter, with private property that has feed plots on it with no one else hunting the area, shoots a big animal, is it a trophy? Does it count only because of its size and nothing else matters? Two hunters take two big trophy bucks — one guy on his own ranch and the other on public lands. One guy from a stand he hunted a couple of hours and the other guy after two weeks of hard, arid and dry Southern California zone hunting. Are these bucks considered the same and just their size matters? Shouldn't there be a trophy category for those animals hunted on privately owned land and one for those hunted on public land? Whose animal is an earned trophy? When these current record books were invented, were private or public land issues the same as they are now? Shouldn't the public land trophy be valued a better quality animal since surviving the harsher conditions and number of hunters it survived through? The private land trophy was never hunted and the food was planted and catered to it. Does the private land deer have the same instincts and smarts of the more frequently hunted public land animal?
Which required more skill and ability to hunt?
I was just wondering because every time I see a picture of a big trophy, it never says whether it is a public or private land hunted animal. It's just a trophy.
Neil R. Narayan
Inglewood, California
I often see pictures and read stories of great hunting from everywhere, trophy bucks and elk that hunters of skill have taken.
Some of these end up in record books because of their size. My question is, if a hunter, with private property that has feed plots on it with no one else hunting the area, shoots a big animal, is it a trophy? Does it count only because of its size and nothing else matters? Two hunters take two big trophy bucks — one guy on his own ranch and the other on public lands. One guy from a stand he hunted a couple of hours and the other guy after two weeks of hard, arid and dry Southern California zone hunting. Are these bucks considered the same and just their size matters? Shouldn't there be a trophy category for those animals hunted on privately owned land and one for those hunted on public land? Whose animal is an earned trophy? When these current record books were invented, were private or public land issues the same as they are now? Shouldn't the public land trophy be valued a better quality animal since surviving the harsher conditions and number of hunters it survived through? The private land trophy was never hunted and the food was planted and catered to it. Does the private land deer have the same instincts and smarts of the more frequently hunted public land animal?
Which required more skill and ability to hunt?
I was just wondering because every time I see a picture of a big trophy, it never says whether it is a public or private land hunted animal. It's just a trophy.
Neil R. Narayan
Inglewood, California
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