I would be willing to pay an excise tax similar to Pittman-Robertson to fund public lands management. Impose a modest tax on sleeping bags, tents, climbing gear, mountain bikes, etc. and dedicate those funds to the management of public lands.
Personally, I would avoid the Berger for elk. I don't think they're a very sturdy bullet. I hunted one season with Bergers (.30/168gr.), shot a muley at 300 yards and the bullet came apart. The deer died, but I couldn't find a piece of that bullet bigger than a bb.
The US Forest Service manages more than 232 million acres of land and only about 36 million of that acreage is designated wilderness. Mountain bikers have access to nearly 85% of the National Forest land in the U.S., they don't need to be in the Wilderness.
I also heartily disagree with the...
I've been wanting to try upland bird and waterfowl hunting. However, I am the Operations Manager at a regional commercial service airport, so I spend most of my late fall/winter months plowing snow and chasing geese off the airport.
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I am an adult onset hunter currently living in north central Washington (also known as the dry side). I'm originally from the midwest and was not exposed to the sportsman's lifestyle until attending the University of Montana in the late eighties/early nineties (the exact number of years I...