Your doe tag is a tool to manage with. Use it if you need to, don't if you don't. It's time hunters get together and take some personal responsibility in the management of the heard. The state is now giving you the tools, you need to decide what's right for your land.

If some of you expect Alt to make a management unit out of your land, or your neighbors, or whatever small area you want effected, you don't understand how big your state really is.

Also, deer check stations are for earn-a-buck-programs, success patches, and overtime pay for state workers-not management tools.

Maybe they should try what KY does. You have to call in within 24 hours to register your deer. They give you a confermation #, and if the deer is found without one, you are in violation. You can actually call in, go to the KY website, and see you deer added to the county harvest figures within seconds of your phone call-it's broken down for bucks and does as well.

PA is a bargain for out of state hunters. The rifle tag should just be a flat fee, as well as everything else. In MI where I live it is $150.00, I believe, for an archery tag, or a rifle tag-not together. KY is cheap also.

If you can afford to hunt out-of-state, buy a gun, ammo, have several hundred dollars of clothing on when going into the woods, food, a place to stay, gas, time from work, whatever, whats $150.00 for a tag?

At the same time though, how much money is spent in a state by NR hunters? I know in my area people like to try and gouge the snowmobilers, but there is a point at which it comes back to hurt them. Compared to Res. hunters, how much do NR hunters spend for a week of hunting?

Jeff...U.P. of Michigan