YUP... I'm sure they'll fine you. If they didn't the "Treehuggers" would demand your job. Besides that... the Treehuggers have been educated and talked to for decades with little results. That's how the herd got this way. We've lobbied for Sunday hunting etc to get more hunters involved. We were screaming for more bag limits before the herd got out of hand. They'd rather do a study or an environmental impact study than kill a deer. They're usual proposals include, sterilization, transplanting, slower speeds etc etc etc. Our last Governor(an avowed anti) even placed an anti on the commission that sets seasons and bag limits. When the guy took office he held a news conference and invited all the press. The main topic of his conference was his intended goal of abolishing bowhunting. With that type in charge it's a miracle we have hunting. The state is broken up into 4 zones. I live on the border of two. Within 15 minutes(across 2 zones) of the house I can shoot 9 bucks and enough does to feed Baltimore. Len and I started crop damage around the first of July the last 2 years. Our crop damage permits for last year and this year end on Jan 31st. Our new ones on one property started Feb 2nd I believe it was. So in fact... we are right now in the mist of a 19 month season.[&:] That said, we hunt two 5 acre parcels, a 75 acre parcel and a 265 acre patch. That's Len, his boy, myself and another fellow with another 2 or 3 occasionally on the 265 acre patch.