No worries guys. I asked for opinions and we definitely got them. I appreciate all the feedback and was surprised how many states release birds. Put/take hunting is another form of hunting that can get people overheated. I'm all for habitat acquisition and improvement but for a lot of folks that live in populated areas and don't have access to productive hunting areas it may make sense to do stocking on the limited lands available...or maybe not.
Yeah, I just get bothered when people take the attitude that if you don't do it just like them (even though your situation is completely different), you're some kind of weak, slack jawed, lazy, ne'er do well.
Anyway, I've been lucky to have pretty good access to wild populations my whole life. But I appreciate that the game depts try to give people opportunities where that isn't the case.
