I hope I didn't make you think I am against hunting in January, that's not the case. The season isn't the biggest part of the problem, it's the attitude that many carry into it.

Personally, I think January should be a primitive weapons season (Bow or ML), with it's own buck tag, and ONE doe tag. I think a button buck should count as a buck, after all, that is how God created him. It's just like anything else; the season isn't a problem, until it's abused, and right now, it's being abused.

I was very much in favor of extending the season when it first happened. However, I never liked the idea of unlimited tags. If the State wants more revenue, make the guy's who want to kill 40 deer pay for it. Charge them $10.00 per tag. Instead of one permit for unlimited deer, charge per tag. This would benefit all hunters. First, we could drop the permit fee to a reasonable amount for residents to pay, and just issue a doe tag with it. Anyone who feels they need to kill large numbers of deer, and therefore use more than their share of the resource, could pay for using more than their share of the resource.

Along with the Primitive weapons buck tag, the State should issue 3 buck tags that hunters can fill how ever they wish. If you want to take one with a bow, ML and shotgun, you can. Or, take all three with bow, all 3 with ML or all three during gun week, even two would work this way. However, the extended gun pressure on the deer has to stop, or the point restrictions and buck restrictions will be for nothing.

I think it may be too late though. Now that they have created a monster, many people will not feel they have to obey new bag limits, and just kill what they want. Shoot, I know a few guy's that do that now, and there is almost no limits!