The whole richland creek situation is maddening, the people running it now are a bunch of Nazis!

this damn yankee's . Tip me hat ta the ones running OSBWMA. started hunten public land when it opened up just down the road. By time it opened up had done the leasing tis what every one was doing. found one could afford, it was a family outing, with chance ta put on d & in d freezer. We were just getting started. tis thinking biggest reason for decrease in hunters tis No place for affordabe hunting. Minnesota their was no leasing, just price of hunting licence & land owners were open ta hunters. we grew up hunten & fishen as low-income family. with high price leasing, its cheaper ta just hunt bargens at wally-world or Sam's club. Figure $per# thenput yoour feet in thar (younger generation just starting out). Lease started on was less than a buck a day with 24-7-365 hog hunten, Family outing, lots of awesome memories, & had been hunten, fishen since 60's. had guns & fishing equipment. Although hunten was completely different, we had no feeders nor food plot with box stands. Cant blame people for watchen how they spend thar money in tough times. That $7.22 an hour in 83 was big bucks ta what was making before, almost triiple. & the $40.00 permit was way cheaper than the rising prices of leasing, & had more options, over 1,000,000 acres. Smith county was buck only for rifle, hmm unbalance we triide ta get just 1 doe tag, not enough deer. worked fences, bailed hay, always out doors doing something, [ihunters b the eyes & ears][/i] boiled down ta pollatics, & voice of low-income workers just trying ta put some on d fell on deaf ears.... Seen lot of hard working hunters, put time effort & money in ta hunting leases, only ta get out bid. OSBWMA was deer archery only with rifle draw hunt, with three month hog hunts, the other wild-game. First year still had a deer lease, no hogs, so hit WMA for the hog hunts, Seen big #ers of hogs, few deer. gave up the leasing next year grabbed bow in hand & took a stand, could have taken deer behind house if needed. had food plot & feeder set up. As years went bye started seeing more deer at WMA, due ta archery only hunts. & when Smith county went 4 deer, could have taken 4 deer legally. yet still did archery hunts. Still Proud supporter of WMA's . Look at the so called "hog problem" times have changed since back in me caveman days, NV, thermal, fly-by hunts even the lights around feeders. Its become all about the big bucks. Seen decrease in hog #ers at sabine, lot of that gotta do with the flooding. Things here have changed also, seeing box stands, some places leased, not near the amount of public land for hunting & getting tough ta find place ta hunt. Few younger age hunters, land availability & prices... My hunten, fishen stuff still in got cheap crossbow, less than $100.00 for me in-line, ladder stand on sale , fishing equipment on sale or cheap end little at a time. ya, Grampa, tell me about the good old days. Think only reason Pres. Trump won cause of dirty pollatis, call me a snow-flake, didnt vote for him. The Rich run the Gov. Trump played on the low-income being feed-up. sorry for rant. {rofl: then again most wont read this, tis in d top 5 on d ignorane list.

I agree with all of the above except the part about Trump winning because of dirty "pollatis". I am not low income but I am still fed up with governments lack of give A $#!t especially from the left. As far as dirty pollitics Hitlary certainly did her best with the "dossier". As for the rich running the government would you prefer a Rosedale street hooker? On the other hand the hooker might give you your money's worth!

Been that way for a loooong time. I brought it up years ago and you wouldn't believe the number of people that took little Lord Fauntleroy's side. Never have I seen a game manager as corrupt as the guy that runs Richland Creek WMA. I also brought up the 40,000 acres donated to the state which was awesome Mule deer country and what happened to it, the state sold it.

TPWD needs to quit being so damn stingy with the number of permits it issues for its WMAs.
Especially the ones in south and west Texas. In the mid 80's I hunted Richland Creek WMA.Back then it was in the type 2 program,cost 25.00 for the AHP,centerfirefire rifles were legal for nov and dec and bowhunting legal for the entire 3 months of the season. Guys would literally camp out for 3 months on the property in trailers and old converted school buses etc.Fast forward to 2018 and you have Yoakum Dunes WMA,which is much larger than Richland Creek and they only issues 1 permit.Period.Really,14,000 acres and they only let 1 guy hunt it?Thats bulls**t.