I’ll tell you what I’ll always call an ace and ace and a spade a spade. I’ll also stop laying the blame on the hunters of this state when the hunters allow themselves to become educated on the real factors instead of thinking they know a lot more about wildlife management then the trained professionals.

The fact is that the vast majority of the hunters don’t much of anything about deer other then where to place a bullet in one, how to gut it and how to eat it.

If you think the hunters across this state have done their job then you have either paid absolutely no attention to the history of deer management in this state or you never understood that hunters should be the tool used to manage deer within the limits of the food supply.

Get the book “Deer Wars” and read up on the part hunters and politicians have played in the REAL story of what has happened as far as deer management, and mismanagement, across this state over the past six or seven decades.

Oh, and by the way I DON’T WORK FOR THE HUNTERS, I WORK FOR THE RESOURCE. Hunters have in the past paid for wildlife management but make no mistake about the fact that if hunters don’t pay that bill the State’s tax payers will. I’m not so sure that wouldn’t be a better thing anyway since so many hunters refuse to be educated and seem to be more of a problem then an asset toward doing the right things for the best possible future.

R.S. Bodenhorn