atlasman

I don't know Charlie........it seems to me if you have DEC officers out doing field checks at processors and counting tags for 8 hours a day.......why can't you have them stay in one location and count all the mailed in ones?? With a bar code scanner it shouldn't take an extremely long time. The 37 cents for a stamp can be absorbed by the hunters and they raise the price of licenses so often no one would even flinch at another buck or two.........especially if they were told it was to help better assess the herd.

Either way Charlie it won't happen. IMO the DEC is thrilled with the current system and would not even entertain changing it. They are very happy to have a vague system based on guesswork so they can continue to preach how high the deer numbers are even though most hunters in the field don't agree. It's like a safety net for them..........if their inaccuracy ever gets exposed on a large scale they can always fall back on the limits of the system and say "It is the best we can do at this time"

The DEC wants the deer population reduced.........period. The more deer killed every year the happier they......no matter what the consequences are in the future. Their is no doubt about that. Their motivation for this??? You decide for yourself.