This is a great forum. I have been reading it for a while but have just never taken the time to sign up. But, being a Vermonter, I thought this post would be a good start.

I don't think any one cure will solve our problem in VT. Many things have compounded to put us in the state we are in now. Coyotes, habitat, winter, jacking, etc. all add to our problem. At least the state is listening to hunters and making an attempt to fix it, no matter how short it falls of the solution. Hopefully when I have kids old enough to hunt youth weekend, which is good the way it is, they will have some success. Until it does get better I will continue to do what more and more Vermonters are doing and hunt in other states.

Also, I do believe the Benoits shoot there deer in Maine. Which is why I walked out of a seminar when "Vermont's Hunting Family" said they hunt in Maine. Maybe they should be "Maine's Hunting Family".