Re: Best use of Tax Payer money?
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 9:13 am
No, not really. It's a different world than here. Those ranches are 100% deeded private land and those ranchers have been using the wildlife on their land as a cash crop for a long time. Guided predator hunts have been going on in Texas forever. This is just another facet of that. But nothing like it exists here.castnshoot wrote:Dave, any thoughts on the Law they just passed in Texas ?
What in the world does catching cheaters in contest hunts have to do with bounty fraud? A lot of the big contests make the top money winners take lie detector tests. Along with blocking, probing, tagging, separating partners for intense interviews etc. I don't see how any of the methods used to catch cheaters in contests could have any application in preventing bounty fraud though? Makes no sense to me.Shags1 wrote:OK, if fraud is such a concern, how do the folks that put on competitions get around it? I've heard a few different rules about testing for rigor, and body temps, and different things, so why couldn't similar measures be taken to keep people a little more honest?
Look, if you guys believe that bounties actually work to reduce coyote populations, or that the history of bounties being rampant with fraud hasn't been documented, I'm not going to waste any more of my breath on the subject. These aren't my opinions, they are facts. Easily verified. Do your own research. See if you can find one, single, documented instance of a bounty on coyotes having any impact on the population. The subject HAS been studied in exhaustive detail - the material is out there if you bother to look. Ask anyone who does this stuff for a living - I've talked to a lot of them. Like I said earlier, bounties are purely politically driven and exist only because they are popular - not because they work. You're being fed a line of crap by politicians (huge surprise...). I'm not going to bother pointing out how dishonest they are any more though.
- Dave