01-14-2014, 07:28 AM
quote:A bill was introduced in the legislature last year that would have lifted most restrictions on bag limits and weapons allowed in hunting. It was shot down by intense lobbying - from the hunters' organizations. Despite their screeching whenever some remote piece of forest that's never hunted is fenced off, the goal of these groups (who I'm well aware don't really represent the majority of hunters, but who have the most political clout and will be the ones represented on the county's game commission) is not really to have more people hunting more animals. It's to have the populations kept as high as possible so they're available to be picked off.
Originally posted by hereandthere
There are hunting families here that would gladly kill dear for food and enough to feed their families year round and their relatives too. That will never happen though....Public officials don't want weapons in Hawaii. Try get some here and you will know. The rules about carrying them, the specifics on where you can hunt, how you hunt, who you have to report to and on and on so that hunting here is a freaking drag.
Someone earlier mentioned having a deer hunting preserve on Kahoolawe. We already have one - it's called Lanai. Only a very few hunting permits are issued every year (I think 20?), and only for bucks. Unsurprisingly, the remaining "forest" on Lanai consists of only two teeny-tiny dryland patches surrounded by a ten-foot high fence, and a bit of mixed Cook pine and ohia at the summit.