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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KJS - ND" data-source="post: 195243" data-attributes="member: 1858">Gratis means without charge (free).  It's a thank you from G&F to landowners for the tolerance they need to put up with deer (and other wildlife) for the 50 weeks of the year when most deer hunters couldn't care less about deer in ND.  If you think deer don't cause more than $30 of damage to almost every agriculture field or hay bales, your sticking your head in the sand (canolo may be the exception <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />).If you know someone who gets a gratis tag for his wife and then fills it for her and it bothers you, then turn them into the warden - I'm quite certain they would issue a ticket.  I get a gratis tag most years and the wife also gets one every year.  Do I fill her tag - Hell no.  Does she get a chance to hunt every year - no, but this year she did make it out and got a couple cracks, but didn't connect.  She still enjoyed the tag and I got to enjoy hunting with the wife which will become a more regular event once the kids are grown hopefully.  Some of our land is posted (where I hunt w/ wife/kids/friends), some is in PLOTS, and some is just unposted.  I can use the same argument the bow hunters use that everyone can get a tag and bow hunt.  Well, last I checked, everyone can buy land and get a gratis tag also - it's really no different.  More up front investment, but it is an investment - I've never bought a bow, used it for 10 years and then found out it's now worth 2 times as much as I bought it for.  Will changing the current system piss off people - of course as people are always mad about change - just like when the 1 tag system is brought up.  Will changing the gratis system to only does or more land required or some other change result in all the land in ND magically becoming posted - absolutely not, but it will piss off a few people and some access will certainly be lost.People that don't bow hunt want to go to a 1 tag system, people that don't own land want to change the gratis rules, PETA wants to eliminate hunting all together, and around and around we go.</blockquote>

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