diehardhunter, the key is what type of area you are in. It used to be the way you described with the all-season license but no more. I confirmed this with the DNR this morning. If you are in a lottery area, you can tag one deer period in that area regardless of license. So an all-season license simply buys you the opportunity to hunt all seasons this year in a lottery area instead of taking three deer (at least two of which must be by bow or ML as in past years).

The DNR feels the all-season license has led to an over-harvest of does. However, as rankbull noted, the deer populations can be quite different within matters of miles. There is a good healthy antlerless population in the northern half of my county from observation and trail cam pics. Does far outnumber bucks. However, in the southern half, I think they have been getting hit hard from recent harvest reports. I realize the DNR has to cut off the micromanaging at some level but would have been nice if the northern half of the county was managed and the sourthern lottery.

What I get a kick out of is that all-season license holders must draw for a lottery tag to shoot a doe during ML season but that those hunters simply buying a ML tag don't have to in order to take a doe. The reason being that all-season holders take too many antlerless deer during ML season but that those with just ML licenses don't. Soooooooo, why wouldn't I just purchase a ML only license this year and tag a doe. The DNR must understand this as they say they'll keep an eye on the ML harvest as well.