One thing I have noticed when reading about the actually hearings is that a lot of people other than hunters offer input at the meetings and they don't have the same concerns we do. Insurance companies like to see more deer killed, period, because of so many claims for auto/deer collisions. Farmers have other motives. Some of them want as many deer as possible killed because of crop damage. Others may have large tracts of land they sell leases on and are looking at the profit angle.

I think a lot of places around here have some really good bucks, but they obviously are harder to hunt and someone who only hunts a couple of weekends will take the first buck they see and others just don't have the patience or skill to wait or know how to hunt the older bucks.

This is really a complex issue when you start to consider all the angles.