However, I can't really speak for other areas of the state...but around where I hunt...it doesn't matter what the laws are. Nobody follows them anyhow. They shoot whatever they want, in season or out, and numbers don't matter. They don't care, they aren't checking them in anyhow. So the problem lies not so much totally on the DNR, but on the slobs that hunt.
And that, fellow wv'ians, is the single biggest reason for the lack of deer. I can give an example of 25 does shot and left in a pile that were shot off crop damage permits. We called the DNR on them, and their response was "they are their deer to do as they please as long as they were legally taken". [:@]