In spite of our differences and disagreements, people could learn a lot from Last Dollar's self-imposed 1/2 limit thing.
I got an all too short taste of hot and heavy Ringneck Pheasant action in my state early in my hunting career, and certainly remember my Dad and Uncles bringing home relatively easy limits of big strong flying native Ringnecks. Then my state game commission, in its' infinite wisdom decided to allow the shooting of hens... the mommy birds that were raising those plentiful broods. A lot of short-sighted hunters gleefully killed as many birds as they could, both hens and ringnecks, and it wasn't too many years before they were all wondering what happened to the Pheasants.
Our game commission has tried a number of things to bring back a viable hunt-able population including the ill-fated introduction of the Sichaun birds., but they steadfastly refuse to admit the error of their ways and restrict the shooting of hens, along with strictly lowered bag limits until things improve. If they simply tried that, and it worked, they would have to admit they were wrong... and that will never happen. The recovery efforts became even more unlikely as coyote and hawk populations took off. And that's why Pheasant hunting here is mostly a put-and-take affair where stocked birds are released and then quickly hunted to near extinction.
