I voted, BUT, IL is not an EAB state, and I have never hunted in one.

Whether bawanajims post is complete satire or not, I can see what he's saying. EAB probably really sucks during the first week or so of season.

That, and I don't like somebody trying to tell me which deer is more legal to kill than another.

Because some of us know our herd dynamics and capacity better than some desk jockey several hundred miles away who's interest is based more on timber industryreturns than land owners goals.

Ihave aboutthe sameinterest in the killing of a doe as a trailer dweller does in dry basements.

Entirely correct Jeff! It depends only on how weak the person is, and in the 'best' case senario - if they can stand looking at a awesome deer on their wall and always be reminded they took it ILLEGALY. That would shame me, personally.

I agree with Bawanajim about EAB being a load of BS. Thankfully I don't live in an EAB state or have ever hunted in an EAB state.

IMO a much better plan than EAB would be to issue specific tags for specific areas of the state. If the NW region of a state is over run with does and has nothing but small bucks then issue one buck tag and five doe tags. Allow the hunter to purchase more tags only after they have used up all of their original tags.

If the SW region of a state has a pretty good doe to buck ration then issue a buck tag for every one or two doe tags.

I wouldn't get it mounted either,I'd just saw the horns off and nailem on the barn door.[]

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Well this just begs for the question:

What if it is buck you don't know, a random wanderer, a once in a lifetime sighting buck.One that you have never seen before andwill probably never see again. Does that change your answer?

Astodays society I amamazed daily at how some of you feel the need for some one that you deem Superior to tell you how to live every aspect of your life. I just don't feel the need to guided thru every day life's simplest of matters.

If you think I'm going over board with this ,just take a minute and think about it. How many of you watch the news in the morning while eating breakfast? They tell you about the weather, come on get a life, how the he!! important to you is what yesterdays temperature was, is it raining? get of yourazz and look out the window for gods sake.
Earn a buck and many other of these sheepeople laws are idiocy,deemed necessary by idiots whom think they need to do the thinking for you.When are we going to say enough of the B.S. and get back to enjoying hunting with out the fear of violating some one Else's ideas on how, when and why we do it?
I,m done.

Wow Jim, you are on fire today. I see your point and somewhat agree with it. Unfortunately, the law is the law and if EAB is the law I have to pass on that deer. If I shot him it would be poaching and as others said I could never look at it as any kind of accomplishment other than "getting away with it."

I love the barndoor comment.

If Im alone no/yes? I think if you're with someone who already took his doe you're set.....buddy system....

If I'm alone.....NO. with someone YES, but hopefully they earned their buck and haven't taken it yet.

I mean if you're talking about just cutting it up at your place, but if you want it mounted, youll need a tag etc....so now you're alone and have a buck on the ground and need to harvest a doe ASAP and call in and earn your buck tag? way too much going on to just take him without someones buck tag around....

in some states tags are transferrable which is nice in some ways because of the buddy system etc....

say you get 1 buck tag and your friend already took a nice buck, and you still havent, whether its abuddy or father.....I say hey if monster walks by take him, but not 150" monster....180" monster, etc...stuff like that it makes sense, but for the poacher who just shoots anything and everything then goes and finds tags from people, that's not right.

I'd say it depends.....if someone near you had a buck tag, that would help, if not it would suck....