What the ???

[Toad]

http://www.kdwpt.state.ks.us/news/Hunting/PRAIRIE-CHICKEN-PERMIT-REQUIRED-THIS-FALL

I hope this study is successful in helping the prairie chicken in some way.

This may sound crazy, but I had mixed feelings about shooting them based on their population level and the way they taste. Maybe I'll save the $2.50 and start hunting them with a camera... Another benefit would be not having to carry my gun 10 miles between sightings...:laugh:

Oh well. I'll probably buy the permit anyway. You never know...:thumbsup:

 

[OldDublin]

Not shooting based upon population level is far from crazy...would that more folks felt the same for the ruffed grouse over the portion of it's range where hunter additivity matters most.
Preferred taste is a fine reason to withhold a trigger tap....killin' stuff ain't hard, not killin' often is.

I'll buy a a Kansas PC permit on general principles and a hope that a penny or two make it to the bird's doorstoop somewhere down the line.

 

[mnmthunting]

The added cost isn't going to add one prairie chicken.

Don't think it would be good to have Prairie Chickens on the endangered species list.

 

[BritChaser]

They taste very livery anyway so shooting more than one for a mount is a waste unless you love liver.

 

[mnmthunting]

Maybe a little like Sage Grouse. If you don't want to eat or mount it, let em fly. I enjoy seeing them more these days then killing them.

 

[OldDublin]

The added cost isn't going to add one prairie chicken....

Very likely so....coverting any cash to on-the-ground gamebird results is tough....lotta straws ready to suck.

Having seen problems with other gamebirds tho, simply bringing attention by way of a permit may focus attention and force looking at any such issue from a perspective beyond the trite and comfortable one of Habitat.
Principally why a Federal woodcock stamp would have been a good idea, as would a pheasant stamp in Pennsylvania....being but two examples that get regularly shot down as assumed ineffective....and hunters generally fight and whine over fees or limits both.

Fighting endangered specie tags are important and while focus is most often undirected in direction with any permit, a proactive stance that appears iffy needs to be at the least, considered.

 

[hunter94]

any time a new "assessment" or "stamp" is required i always wonder where the money will really end up?......just a bit of a skeptic when it comes to any governmental agency, state or federal, who wants to "help"...

 

[SetterNut]

http://www.kdwpt.state.ks.us/news/Hunting/PRAIRIE-CHICKEN-PERMIT-REQUIRED-THIS-FALL

I hope this study is successful in helping the prairie chicken in some way.

This may sound crazy, but I had mixed feelings about shooting them based on their population level and the way they taste. Maybe I'll save the $2.50 and start hunting them with a camera... Another benefit would be not having to carry my gun 10 miles between sightings...:laugh:

Oh well. I'll probably buy the permit anyway. You never know...:thumbsup:

I am going to have to hunt your spots, I was 20 miles between birds :cheers:

 

[cheesy]

any time a new "assessment" or "stamp" is required i always wonder where the money will really end up?......just a bit of a skeptic when it comes to any governmental agency, state or federal, who wants to "help"...

The article says the money will all go to the vendor and to the automation of the system. Nothing towards the actual prairie chicken.

 

[Toad]

I am going to have to hunt your spots, I was 20 miles between birds :cheers:

I'm pretty sure we are hunting the same places. I just have better dogs.:laugh::nutz::laugh:

Sorry, I couldn't resist!

Seriously though, I just started "Couch to 5K" in preparation for PC season. September was rough last year, trying to button my brush pants... And Daisy looked like she was doing the truffle-shuffle. We were both down to "fighting weight" by November, but I don't want to do that again this year.

Hopefully we will both be in prime physical shape by the PC opener. That's the plan, anyway...:cheers:

 

[OldDublin]

The article says the money will all go to the vendor and to the automation of the system. Nothing towards the actual prairie chicken.

Far from a given, but any interest as a spotlight can lead to good things down the road...or bad, I'm afraid.
Best to not look at any plan or practice as an end in itself.
Few know the future or what drives us to it.