I have no problem with killing as many deer as the state will allow and I don' t suffer too much if I don' t get all my tags filled . Now imagine I fill all of them twice. Now imagine the dishonest people who walk into the office and say they lost an animal when in reality they didn' t, they just want another tag but the state has set precedence that if you say you lost an animal they' ll give you another. What really suffers is the herd. I understand your point on if the state gives the tags you are legal to kill them but there has got to be a line drawn somewhere. They attempt to do that by setting a limit on the number of tags an individual can purchase. If they let you have an extra they have to let everyone have one if they claim that' s what happened. What happens to the resource then?
We both know ethics and legality are two separate things. I would look for that deer all season while hunting to fill my antlerless permits.
TJ