It all depends on how you view deer hunting. It's not some magical quest to me. It's killing deer, I don't kid myself or hide myself from the truth. The state lets you do it to manage the deer and make money. They would not issue the tag if they didn't want it filled. And in most cases they still don't harvest enough deer since most that get tags never fill them. Heck MI doesn't even track the harvests. You don't have to check deer in when you kill them. You can if you want, but you don't have to. Just kill and grill it in most cases.

While it's not completely in the guidlines of the law I don't really consider it poaching. More like improperly tagging an animal. If they didn't want that number of deer to be taken, they would not have sold the tag to however bought it.

I could see if you were in an area that you had a draw for tags, but where I live that just isn't the case. You just buy them over the counter. And you can get a doe tag every day if you want for private land.

I will never feel guilty about helping someone out. Sometimes the right thing is not always the correct thing. I normally only take one deer a year anyway, even though I could legally take many more.

Paul