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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gst" data-source="post: 83404" data-attributes="member: 373">ND so now then it is not just about the "opportunity to hunt" it is about the opportunity to hunt where YOU want to. So should I now demand the "opportunity to hunt" over with my buddy on his land with my gratis tag? ND, I have put up with literally hundreds of deer in our yard for years. I don;t mind a couple hundred or even three hundred. My wife and daughter like finding sheds with us and the boys and I are avid hunters so hey I will deal with the issues that come with deer. That is why I am not calling the G&F to deal with them for me. We try to get people in that have doe tags to help manage numbers. Had 8 different people shoot does here this fall. The year they had the doe season after rifle season we had people come in and shot dozens of deer out of the yard. When the G&F are not smart enough to figure out 2 feet of snow in rifle season impacts harvest numbers and assumes it is reduced population numbers to start with and so they cut the tags for next year and this happens two years in a row and suddenly the population explodes because there are far more deer out there than they knew about so they have ot have a doe only season after rifle season and give up unlimited tags, yeah there is too many deer. And at that point they can not get a handle on this snowball that turned into an avalanche until Ma Nature steps in and does it for them. And the pendelum swings too far and deer numbers are downAnd then people like yourself want to limit those people that own the lands these deer are on all year which will only limit your "opportunity to hunt" down the road. Remember the G&F are limiting tags to get deer numbers back up. Deer numbers go back up impacts to landowners go back up. And the cycle continues until Ma Nature steps in again. Until a means to better manage these numbers as best as we can happens you are merely putting that band aid over the outside of the wound and ignoring what is going on inside. And in doing so picking a fight to boot that will not help in the long run.</blockquote>

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