ORIGINAL: Lanse couche couche
I'm not really sure how it will lead to more poaching. If I want to poach a deer I will wait until all the seasons are closed anyway since the game wardens pretty much disappear. And if the bucks have dropped their antlers then there is really no reason to want to purposely shoot them. If some get shot accidentally, then fine with me. The general idea is to lower the population. There is never gonna be a plan that will please everyone, but this is one hell of a good try at it.
Lanse,
It seems your are about population control and not about managing a herd. IL. has become a trophy buck state due to short gun seasons and herd management clear up until these last few years. Most of us want to keep it that way. When we are talking about poaching we are meaning with the new call in system there are several bucks that are being called in as does. Also, the question comes up as to how many deer are being killed with the same tag?? Say you kill a deer and you tag it and call it in and you butcher it yourself. How many of these guys are just taking the tag off of that deer and killing another one the next day and using the same tag? To the passerby it looks legit. The tag is on the deer with the confirmation number. I really don't mind what they have done here with their suggestions, but until we get the check stations back we will never get an accurate harvest number. Without an accurate harvest number we will never be able to manage our herd.