That is such a lame answer it's laughable. The tags are issued in hopes that they WILL be filled........the fact that only a certain % actually do get filled is the DEC falling short of it's goals.

The only logical reason to give more tags is that you want more deer killed. Hunter's can't kill more deer without more tags.

If they know that people are never gonna fill 5-7 tags then why are they wasting all the resources that go into figuring out and distributing all those useless tags??


Gee, I wonder if pumping up herd numbers to make guys think they can fill that many tags each year so they spend the extra money on a super sportsman has anything to do with it??