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Seek One’s dilemma

ZachMarkus said:
I know where it was killed but I'm not gonna say on here. It wasn't the silo farm.
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MidTennFisher said:
I'd say social media is influencing that more so than a lack of hunters. Squirrels aren't sexy on social media. Big antlered bucks, ducks, and turkeys are.

We recently had some meetings with our DNR here in South Carolina about our turkey population. One point of data is the INCREASE in the number of turkey hunters over the last 20 years. And it was quite an increase. I can't imagine Tennessee is much different.

Nowhere are we seeing an actual decrease in hunters. Maybe they're spending a lot more time hunting larger animals and waterfowl than squirrels and rabbits, absolutely. But for deer, turkeys, and waterfowl, literally nobody (that isn't in a position to profit off new hunters) is saying they see a decrease in hunters.

All the discussion is that WMAs are more crowded, leases are more competitive, guys are on wait lists to join a club, point creep out West, even residents can't draw big game tags yearly anymore, etc. All of that points to more hunters. At the very least, more hunters per huntable acre. Even if hunter numbers are in decline, which I do not believe, so is the number of available acres to hunt. So that leads me to believe that relentlessly drumming up interest in hunting is irresponsible.

I'm not saying that more hunters is bad in all regards, but I am saying that we are being lied to that we need to have a sense of urgency to promote hunting to death just for the benefit of recruiting more people.

If someone truly wants to hunt, we should be willing to mentor them. If someone wants to hunt because they saw it on Instagram and wants to be the next SeekOne, tell them to get another hobby.
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Sensible post and reasonable perspective that I cannot disagree with. We have enough anecdotal hyperbole in everything else today that we don't need it in hunting, too. Keep it real.
 
Buzzard Breath said:
The only person I recognize in that pic is Theo Von. I didn't realize TNDeer was blessed to have a member of Seek One in its ranks. Who is it?
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Out of respect I won't say but to me it's pretty obvious haha. Side note I saw Theo Von a few weekends ago and I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. 😂
 

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