Well, after all the fine responses...and I mean that! I have a few points:
I hunt in Unit 61. We have consistently had one of the highest ratios of does killed to bucks...in DNR parlance, antlerless to antlered, of any unit in the state for YEARS now, and we end up in EAB????
The overwinter goal has been reduced twoce since 1990 in unit 61. I now stands at something like 19? So if the DNR, in their ultimate stupidity, decides to reduce it again, to say 12, then we never reach the "goal" that they state we need to be at.
From what I see, we have a bunch of bureaucrats in air-conditioned offices sipping their lattes' deciding what the appropriate goal is for deer in a unit, based on the already discredited SAk model.
Quit whining, climb of the bar stool, stop baiting, start learning to hunt, and shoot some does!!!!!!!
Oh, by the way, I shot 3 does...not antlerless deer in the DNR's parlance, three FEMALE deer last year, two with my tags and one with a friends. Also, I don't bait. How many did the sanctimonious ones on this board do???!!![:@]