This has been a year I'll never forget. you will know what I mean if you read "when the hunter becomes the hunted", but now to problems that are depleting our deer herd. 1. Not enough DNR Officers, one officer cannot take care of all the poaching going on here. Poaching is getting to be at a all time high in this County. 2. McDowell has been known as a place to bag a good Pope & Young, out-of -state fees are way to low, compared to what it cost us to hunt in other states. 3. Why do out of state hunters, 80% that I have run into, bring rifles with them, this County is closed to gun season, maybe it's because they have heard how easy it is to kill a buck with a rifle and check it in with know problem. 90% of the checking stations do not even go look at the deer. 4. DNR has been trapping our big bucks and sending them up north to try and get bigger racks for the gun season, I have seen this with my own eyes! 5. House dogs running deer until they drop, the coyotes are growing out of control, why in the hell would the DNR want bring back theses killers? I guess it the same reason truck loads of Rattlesnakes for wild turkeys. 6. We need to speak up and let the people that make the laws undrestand that this is not going to be a big joke ,like last year, they need to be serious about what is going on in McDowell County. We need more DNR Officers, we need them to leave our deer herd alone, make strong examples out of poachers, make people responseable for thier house dog as well as the coon hunters. If their dogs are found the next day by someone else, the owners should be fined or lose thier dogs, and last but not lease, stop bringing in dumb ass animals that serve no purpose except to kill and sooner or later become a danger to the public.