They will never lift the ban this year and that is the best thing ever!! If you guys are really so worried about the lives of all the great people of Michigan then we should just end bow hunting right now and have notags needed just go kill every deer out there or maybe say we should just have our state police snipers in training do it for the state for free and that way the insurance companies would just be estatic!!Get off the high horse learn to hunt with out dumping food on the ground learn how to scout and if that pi$$'s off a bunch of guys that don't want to learn to hunt I say TO BAD.. Don't give me the well the deer wont come on my 5 acre piece of land that my grandpa lets me hunt if I don't bait, Then don't HUNT THERE!!!! Knock on a door where the deer are!!!! It's really easy guys get off a couch and learn about deer and nature you will be amazed of where it might take you and what you can learn!!!! There I feel better!! Walt