1st off, last time I looked almost 50% of the "does" harvested were really button bucks during Wisconsin's EAB seasons... Look at our regular gun deer season, the button bucks were just kicked out by momma a week or two earlier when she went into heat. A button buck is the most vulnerable deer in the woods... Now, take a look at what Wisconsin is doing. Its not about "herd control" its about complete destruction. There goal is 10 per square mile state wide, and 5 per square in the CWD areas... My hunting has dropped off almost deerless!
My main dissatisfaction is the wasteful slaughter of baby deer. The idea that we should shoot more than we need and just toss the rest. If you want non-res. to flock here to spend money, you better have deer, and I mean mature deer... A nice balanced herd.
With that said, my oldest son gave up hunting when it turned into a blood bath. For a boy who loves animals, it sickened him to see hunters shooting fawns to earn a buck and then just toss them into a ditch or a DNR supplied dumpster. He was taught to respect these animals. When there were absolutely no limits in southern Wisconsins CWD zone we hunted and he noted that every deer he seen was wounded, and all were stressed... Is that hunting? He quit, and has refused to go back out with me... James, my younger boy, has been trying to keep up the enthusiasm but its starting to wear on him also... He says why hunt if there are no quality animals to shoot... He hunted a couple weekends with bow this year then gave up. For the 1st time ever, he decided not to join me in the gun hunt...
If we have increased hunters, its killers, not hunters... People who enjoy killing lots of fawns and 1 1/2 hyear old deer that never got a chance to grow up...
The WDNR makes me sick!