Originally Posted by
skb2706
As the year progresses obviously the deer hunting season and management objectives change. You would have also been poaching by hunting on Sept. 29th.
Exactly. The objective is no longer hunting. The goal there is to get rid of many deer as possible because they are deemed a problem. There's a reason the license is being issued, and I'd imagine they're not very easy to come by, though I could be wrong.
I have participated in a deer population control hunt the past two years in a state park. They close the entire park down and open it to hunters (who have to go through a lottery to hunt). Even though they tell us to kill as many as possible, we still cannot bait, etc, etc. Now I PERSONALLY don't agree with those methods during regular hunting, but when the stated purpose is to kill as many as possible, I feel like the park management should have ALREADY set up bait/food a week or two prior to the hunt in order to meet the objective, which is to kill 200 does. They NEVER come close to meeting it.