I suspect I was hearing hunter discussions and complaints about no deer and how the Game Commission was mismanaging the deer and killing them all off from long before you were even born.

This handful of loudly disgruntled hunters is certainly nothing new. I was hearing hunters complaining about how the Game Commission had killed all of the deer off since way back in the late 1950s when antler less harvests became an annual event.

I have been hearing that screaming and shouting from hunters every single time the Game Commission has increased the antler less license or harvests over the past fifty years. But, that screaming and shouting it not nearly as strong today as it was fifty years ago, twenty years ago, ten years ago or even five years ago.

I talk to FAR more hunters in a year then probably anyone posting on this web site and the VAST MAJORITY of the hunters are not dissatisfied with the deer hunting they are experiencing. And, I am even in what many consider to be the most deer depressed area of the state.

Yes, most hunters would like to see more deer but most of them also know that seeing more deer isn’t realistic or even possible until they first see the habitat recovering to where it can support more deer.

The majority of the hunters I have contact with, on a daily bases, are not nearly as disgruntled as the loudly vocal minority posting on this site would mislead you into believing.

R.S. Bodenhorn