It all pretty much boils down to a couple of things. Number one, development nationwide is taking out millions of acres of land that was once available to hunt. We now have more deer in the U.S. than any time in history and a fraction of the land to hunt them on.

The second problem (that I see as a problem) is the incredible boom in deer hunting popularity. Before 1980 there were nomagazines devoted specifically to deer hunting. You had Outdoor Life, Field and Stream, and Sports Afield....the big three. You'd see deer hunting articles in the fall and fishing articles in the spring. Now there are several speciality magazines devoted to deer hunting only and the whole emphasis is on the score of the deer. You rarely see a photo without all of the scoring statistics along side of it. For most hunters it's not about getting together with friends, putting up some venison for the winter, etc......it's about who can shoot the biggest buck. We're all guilty of it, myself included. There is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to shoot a big buck. The problems arise when greed rears its ugly head and it becomes the sole reason for hunting.

I think we are seeing all of the posting of land, land leased out to outfitters, etc. becasue of this obsession to constantly shoot more and bigger bucks. There are landowners here who lease their land to outfitters, but will let "the locals" in to shoot does. In a sense they are throwing their neighbors the crumbs while letting the outfitters skim the cream off the top. I personally fill my doe tags on land that landowners let me hunt bucks on. I feel it's my responsibility to help them manage the deer on their property. We have way too many antlerless deer here. My neighbor on the east side of me leases 1200 acres out to an outfitter. Deer season closed yesterday. This morning there were over 97 deer feeding in his field...... 94 does and 3 small bucks.Pathetic. Guess who's going to be crying to the Fish & Game with they start attacking his haystacks.......

Allowing a police officer exclusive rights to hunt posted property to keep others out is one of the most disgusting things I've heard. That's total abuse of the position you hold and you should be ashamed of yourself, and you definitley should not be in law enforcement.