You may only post ITT if you have Right to Hunt

>just play a video game goy!
>NOOOOOO goy! Don't learn how to shoot and provide for yourself!

Hunters contribute more to conservation than any other group. You have to buy tags here and they're expensive.

>muh constitution

Enjoy your constitutionally extinct bison and passenger piheon.

Why can't Americans just let the legislature legislate? Why does everything have to be in muh constitution.

Lets do it.

>flyover meme
Mad you don't have any leibensraum faggot?

t. Based eastcoaster

Our entire ideology is about putting limits on the government to keep it from overreaching.

How is it a constitutional right if you have to buy tags, and how exactly does buying tags contribute to conservation?

Goes both ways in a civilized society. People can overreach, too.

npr.org/2018/03/20/593001800/decline-in-hunters-threatens-how-u-s-pays-for-conservation\

Decline In Hunters Threatens How U.S. Pays For Conservation

State wildlife agencies and the country's wildlife conservation system are heavily dependent on sportsmen for funding. Money generated from license fees and excise taxes on guns, ammunition and angling equipment provide about 60 percent of the funding for state wildlife agencies, which manage most of the wildlife in the U.S.

This user-play, user-pay funding system for wildlife conservation has been lauded and emulated around the world. It has been incredibly successful at restoring the populations of North American game animals, some of which were once hunted nearly to extinction.

But with the slide in hunting participation expected to speed up in the next 10 years, widening funding shortfalls that already exist, there's a growing sense of urgency in the wildlife conservation community to broaden that funding base. Congress is looking at tapping oil and gas revenues. Some states are adding general sales taxes, while others are looking for ways to tweak the user-play, user-pay model to better represent how today's society interacts with wildlife, monetizing activities like wildlife-viewing.

Those efforts are running into a larger question: Is the greater public willing to pay more to protect wildlife?

>Is the greater public willing to pay more to protect wildlife?
Have you tried not shooting it in the first place?

1. It's a constitutional right as in they can't prohibit the sport entirely
2. A season tag is around $300 here, which consists of around 12 tags. Which means I can kill 12 bucks this season. The amount of tags varies wildly depending on how overpopulated the deer population is. Bear and moose tags are much more expensive. Then on top of that, you need a hunters license and licensed guns, which can be anywhere between $500-$1000. All of this money goes back into the public services that manage the parks/forest areas

Maine is like 96% Forest. It's like Cascadia but less depression and more fishing.

Fun fact, the reason Maine wasn't settled by whites for so long was because the Indians there were infinitely more savage than other places. If you encroached on their land they'd send 10 braves in the night to poison, set fires, and cut sleeping throats in your camp. Even large military regiments were sent but pretty much everybody died and it just wasn't worth it when you could move west. I think the tribe was the Penobscot.

>as in they can't prohibit the sport entirely
Is there any state that has? What makes "constitutional" hunting states different from the others then?

More like Cascadia with no mountains

They aren't talking about hunting there.

>buy guns and ammo from a store supported by a Washington-based company
>killing only permitted animals by the government and eating them maybe twice a year max
>providing for yourself

There ya go, sure. How's rain in Maine? I'm from New Hampshire.

>Decline In Hunters
>dependent on sportsmen
>user-play, user-pay
>slide in hunting participation

>They aren't talking about hunting there.

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Or you could just pay slightly more in taxes and have the exact same result.

i like to hunt faggots

Hunting in those states is all year round, while in the other states it's only allowed whenever the government allows it.

Not to play the devil’s advocate here, but conservation can refer to protection of wildlife from fires, pollution, invasive species, climate change, etc.

Or we can keep the population of animals in check while letting people enjoy their recreation activity and make money off of it.

>Slav rapebaby reading comprehension
The money isn't just spent on protecting animals from hunters dumb dumb.

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unless you own your own land

In my state it's illegal to kill anything without a tag, including wildlife on your own land.

So this is coming from a liberal (Marylander) nogunz no hunt:

Hunting is good for everyone, assuming it's done responsibly. It generates revenue for the state, it helps conservation, and it keeps animal populations in check.

About the last one: how do you think a deer dies when there are no predators (including humans) around? Badly. Starvation, or disease, or by the grill of a minivan whilst looking for food. Hunters (at least with herbivores) maintain the balance that we upset when we annihilated the natural predators.

Now get rid of lead shot and bullets and I have literally no qualms about anything hunting-related. It's ESPECIALLY a boon for conservation. And if you haven't had a redneck cook you rabbit-stew from a rabbit that was alive

mine you can hunt on your own land, but it has to be in-season

Trophy hunting is barbaric and anyone who practices it is a fucking colossal faggot. Hunting deer is GOAT and almost a necessity at this point.

went hunting today as a matter of fact. Got a rabbit and a few squirrels, shit was tasty

You can't get rid of lead bullets for hunting entirely. You would be disenfranchising traditional muzzleloader hunters who can only shoot lead.

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>squirrel burgers
why isn't this a thing in 'merica?

Based fellow squirrel hunter. Do you not let yours sit in a salt brine overnight?

say... that's a good idea pal...
got any recipes?

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how does squirrel taste? I imagine that it's quite lean

Montana down to Colorado seems to be the states with the most actual freedom regarding most things amerikkkans are concerned about, no permit for guns, open carry, weed, low taxes, mostly WASP

Fun fact:
Scientists analyzed traffic deaths/injuries from deer and found that re-introducing mountain lions to their pre-Colombian (pre-1492) would actually result in FAR fewer deaths. Even taking into consideration the highest possible hypothetical cougar-human attack numbers. So adding the maximum possible number of mountain lions that this land can support would REDUCE deaths.

So if you're not going to bring back carnivores, hunters need to pick up the slack.
>disclaimer: used to work for the parks, had to take anti-lyme disease meds a gorrillion times. And if every deer (re: rat with antlers) was fed tail-first into a woodchipper I would CHEER

Tastes like dark meat chicken desu

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usually I will cut the legs off, as i can cook that shit like chicken legs and they are very tasty with my spicing. The other parts I put into a stew, as the meat will just come right off the bone.
Most of it is, as I said with the other parts thats are lean i put into a stew
Should I post pics?

ah so that's why north dakota and south dakota are split

I'd grandfather them in, since they make a small minority of hunters.
>also I'd personally blow the person to invent caseless ammo for shotguns so I don't have to see thousands of empty plastic casings every fucking 10 feet on trails

looks tasty anons

you can cut the legs off, and it will provide a pretty crunchy, warm and colorful snack. The body you can put into a stew to get the meat off the bones. If you're like me, you can either salt the offal to save and cook and eat for later, or feed it to your dogs

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I've never met anyone that actually eats the offal. Have you eaten thel brains though? I haven't.

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no. I save the brains to use on the hide for tanning. let me go look for my recipes I use for the offal

>Shockingly the only states with the right to hunt are empty flyovers

Yep, Texas is totally empty, and not the second largest state in the U.S. by every measure (population, GDP, land area.)

When California banned lead for hunting it basically banned traditional muzzleloader hunting in the state.
>caseless ammo for shotguns
Paper shells used to be a thing but I don't know how well or quickly they degraded.

Sounds like a very sensible policy.
On tv they make it look like you take a gun and just shoot whatever moves

I hunt all year round, following the game season.

More like Cascadia but malarial swamp in the summer