The anti's put a stop to a new bowhunting opportunity at a nearby park with a deer population problem last year. The rules were strict, down to having to cover your animal when dragging, where to put gut piles, how many hunters, reservations in advance, etc. The anti's said the DEM's method of determining the size of the herd was flawed, so they hired experts at non-lethal population reduction (and I heard that shooting does up with this contraceptive was a HUGE failure) to get a better count. What was their method? Driving around with a spotlight... They were quick to point out that DEM was flawed, and their independent results would be available in a week. They never posted their results anywhere. I asked the state's deer biologist, and she never heard from them... Sorry, didn't mean to hijack this thread, but at least you have the opportunity to hunt and prosecute the morons with firecrackers... Our hunt was stopped before it even started.