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<blockquote data-quote="ElkStalkR" data-source="post: 2002294" data-attributes="member: 2292"><p>Everybody thinks KS is so great. I don't get it!! </p><p></p><p>Check this list out: <a href="http://wiredtohunt.com/2012/02/07/top-20-boone-crockett-producing-states-for-2005-2010-entries-up-400-over-past-30-years/" target="_blank">http://wiredtohunt.com/2012/02/07/top-20-boone-crockett-producing-states-for-2005-2010-entries-up-400-over-past-30-years/</a></p><p></p><p>KS is 8th BEHIND Kentucky, Indiana, and Missouri. Really when you look at it their stats aren't all that impressive considering their regulations and what other states have done. IMO, the only reason you hear about KS is all the damn TV shows. Right along with Iowa! Whats crazy is the #1 producing B&C state in the last 5-7yrs hardly gets mentioned on TV......WISCONSIN!! Yep, Wisconsin. Whens the last time you heard the Lee and Tiff or the Drury's headed up to WI for a hunt?........yep, media pumps and we buy it. Not to say KS isn't a good place to hunt!! I just think its overrated, mainly due to the media. Yes, undeniably they have a larger percentage of big bucks than OK.</p><p></p><p>I don't want any more buck regulations in the name of producing "quality" bucks. If we want to produce quality bucks that should be left up to the hunters themselves and not "forced" on us. Educate and promote passing on young bucks! Push it in the hunter education, but don't tie our hands so we can't. I think OK is doing a pretty good job of heading that way. Look at that list. We jumped from 22nd to 14th in 20 yrs! That is proof that hunters are taking the responsibility themselves!</p><p></p><p>It makes me so mad to think that if I have the opportunity to harvest a mature buck in gun and muzzleloader seasons on my own family land that I potentially will not be able to do so now!! You are punishing those that would pass on young bucks because of those hunters who do not! And for what???? It certainly isn't for the viability of the herd!! Its just so we can have a great number of bigger bucks?! That is wrong! </p><p></p><p>Educate and promote, but don't make more damn laws that restrict me. Rant off.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ElkStalkR, post: 2002294, member: 2292"] Everybody thinks KS is so great. I don't get it!! Check this list out: [url]http://wiredtohunt.com/2012/02/07/top-20-boone-crockett-producing-states-for-2005-2010-entries-up-400-over-past-30-years/[/url] KS is 8th BEHIND Kentucky, Indiana, and Missouri. Really when you look at it their stats aren't all that impressive considering their regulations and what other states have done. IMO, the only reason you hear about KS is all the damn TV shows. Right along with Iowa! Whats crazy is the #1 producing B&C state in the last 5-7yrs hardly gets mentioned on TV......WISCONSIN!! Yep, Wisconsin. Whens the last time you heard the Lee and Tiff or the Drury's headed up to WI for a hunt?........yep, media pumps and we buy it. Not to say KS isn't a good place to hunt!! I just think its overrated, mainly due to the media. Yes, undeniably they have a larger percentage of big bucks than OK. I don't want any more buck regulations in the name of producing "quality" bucks. If we want to produce quality bucks that should be left up to the hunters themselves and not "forced" on us. Educate and promote passing on young bucks! Push it in the hunter education, but don't tie our hands so we can't. I think OK is doing a pretty good job of heading that way. Look at that list. We jumped from 22nd to 14th in 20 yrs! That is proof that hunters are taking the responsibility themselves! It makes me so mad to think that if I have the opportunity to harvest a mature buck in gun and muzzleloader seasons on my own family land that I potentially will not be able to do so now!! You are punishing those that would pass on young bucks because of those hunters who do not! And for what???? It certainly isn't for the viability of the herd!! Its just so we can have a great number of bigger bucks?! That is wrong! Educate and promote, but don't make more damn laws that restrict me. Rant off. [/QUOTE]
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