Your right.........however, that is something that CAN'T be left for the general hunting population to govern themselves......it is up to the DEC to know and understand the herd densities and provide tags accordingly. If a hunter purchases a license and gets a legal tag for an animal I can hardly fault him for filling it. If filling tags is detrimental to the deer herd then the tags shouldn't be available. What the hell is the DEC for if we have to police ourselves and take matters into our own hands to keep them from destroying our herd?? That is what the DEC is supposed to be doing for us..........if we have to manage the herd ourselves then what is the point of even having a DEC?

The solution is simple........less tags. I couldn't care less if they imposed a statewide ban on shooting does for 2 years or more. Fine by me. That will NEVER happen though because they want the herd slaughtered down to minimal levels.......as long as they can continue to get gullable hunters to go along for the ride and keep buying licenses by believing all the BS stories they tell about ever expanding numbers......why would they change?


Again.......in theory you are correct.......but when the DEC is giving out truckloads of tags to everyone in town this sends the message that they want a bunch of deer taken out of that area.........So I don't see how a hunter is supposed to not shoot anything when the DEC is telling them to shoot everything. A single hunter can not (and should not be forced to) make a decision of how many deer to kill based on it's effect on the big picture........that is what the DEC is for.