The BOW hunting and GUN hunting seasons are TWO DIFFERENT SEASONS. (Yes I am shouting as you can't seem to hear clearly.)
The hunters KNOW THIS. Bow hunting season is OVER.
Your idea would simply advertise that there is good hunting on that land-- it would amount to an endorsemnt from the bowhunters and a reassurance that when the gunboys show up, they won't be bothered by pesky bowhunters!
LF is NOT exaggerating or being a baby-- it really is just as she describes, here in our rural county.
The flood of flatlanders began over the weekend. They take over the town. They drive among our gentle old folk like they were in a city road-rage fight. Many of them are so rude to locals that we won't want to dine out, go to our local health club pool (it's in a motel full of hunters), etc., for the duration-- been through it long enough to know that the redneck jokes people like Mudcatters make are the stereotype these yutzes bring with them.
Bobert--
It's open season on US. There will be rapes while they are here-- they left the Missus at home in Philly to come up here for a "good time with the boys." The lodging is cheap, the county economy needs their tourist bucks, and every church will have some sort of food event to suck in as much as they can. We'll all put on our best "Country Hospitality" faces. They won't see that our teeth are gritted.
Hunting season, here, is the local equivalent of the Christmas shopping season that retailers count on. It's part of what lets us all live here in this wild beauty. WE DON'T HAVE TO LIKE IT.
The first blast on the hill behind my house just went off. No one asked permission to go up there. It's a group-- I can tell from the shooting cadence. Tonight they'll be pinching hardworking waitresses who will grit their teeth and smile as they pour coffeee, so their kids can eat all winter. She won't go home with one of them, but a local teenager might because she'd like some dress money for the winter dances. Or a Downs Syndrome girl may be fondled in the pool-- seen it happen. Seen the 16-year-old lifeguard not know how to handle it because it's "Be nice to flatlanders" season" and the manager says "They're only a little drunk" and "She thinks it's a game" and "Boys will be boys."
DO YOU GET IT NOW?
It's not just the land they trespass upon. "Bow" hunters won't be here to help with any of it.