whitetail and other: what makes you think guys like me don't write the letters, heck I even dropped my membership to the Federation of Sportsman along with my $200 annual donation to them cause they support Alt. which meant I had to let my dues lapse at the local gun club as they are part of the Fed.
Also if you have access to an over abundant deer herd by all means blast away, BUT once those numbers are down to manageable levels if you continue to blast away you are part of the problem.
those guys that give their old kin a few steaks or sausage aren't the slobs I refer to it's the guys that shoot 4 deer a year and their kids each kill 2 or 3 then the wife nails 1 or 2 more and the family consumes a total of 3 deer while the rest get passed around only to wind up freezer burnt then tossed out in the trash next Sept. Those guys are SLOBS. It is usually these SLOBS that flit around looking for areas with high deer numbers then hammer away only to move on to another area in a year or two when the pickins get slim. The result is normally more posted land to keep what few deer remain for the owners kin.EVERYONE looses because of these slobs