Everyone is worried about what the non-hunting public sees and thinks. If we conduct ourselves like the upstanding citizens that most of us are no matter what extra-curricular activities we enjoy, how can they view us badly?

I work around a bunch of city dwellers that have no interest in hunting and use as much tact as humanly possible (for me, lol) when talking about hunting. I' ve had several co-workers ask me if I caught anything when I was hunting and I tell them that I don' t practice catch and release techniques unless I' m fishing.
Most of them think that it' s great that the hunters want to help take care of the overpopulation problems, especially when you tell them you do it for free and use your own tags. And none of them turn down my homemade summer sausage and jerky.

When I moved to Kansas and started hunting again, I couldn' t believe that they didn' t have check stations or some sort of reporting method to obtain valid harvest data. Being from Missouri that' s all I' d known as well. You shoot your deer, tag it and drive to the check station, either an MDC office or a feed store, convenience store or local tavern like Bowfanatic mentioned. It is a definate draw for the business owner, they take a couple of notes, hand you a plastic tag for the animal, and make some money off of the people bringing their deer in. I' m all for just doing what I mentioned in a previous post, putting the harvest report on the back of our tag, the portion that doesn' t get put on the deer anyway, kind of like a postcard that is postage free. Fill it out and toss it in the mailbox instead of the circle file.

I' m outta here fella' s, takin' my Cub Scout campin' .....
Ken