I was busy out pulling game cams for the season and never finished my thoughts on this Rinella guy's blog.
I agree in general with his idea of spending less time posting big buck pictures on Facebook, but not his core reasons to no do it (if I interpreted his point correctly, as he rambles a little bit during his rant),
I don't agree at all that us "real?" hunters should keep quiet about our hunting so that less new people will go, and we who are left can have it all to ourselves with a lot more room, because we're running out of space to go hunting.
Isn't this greed and entitlement? Is he correct that there's no room for more hunters? There seems to be plenty of deer for wolves, coyotes, bears, and cougars to get a big portion of our deer herds, but he's saying that there's not enough deer to reach around for all the hordes of new hunters that social media has attracted to our sport? Maybe I totally missed his point, set me straight if I did
In PA in the early 2000's the game commission mismanaged and decimated our deer herd, and a fair portion of our generation of young hunters quit hunting altogether, including quite a few of my friends. Now the deer made a comeback and new people are picking up the sport. It appears to me that when there's more hunting opportunities a lot more people go, and when there's less hunting opportunities a lot of people quit.
Is anyone familiar with this fellow, cause I'm curious if there is a touch of sour grapes here, since his brother has attained a lot of fame and he hasn't...
