First of all , I do hunt T.L. and it's Archery Only. i said it was too cold and windy to archery hunt.
Secondly, I'm on the Wildlife committe that set up and enforces the archery only hunt.
I would be breaking therules of the board of directors and the rules I help enforceif I ML hunted T.L.
I hope I don't run into your friends sneaking around the Lake, hunting w/o the proper permits. It's trespassing at the very least.
I hope DougE doesn't find them...He's a BIG boy.

Took the flintlock out Saturday in the ANF and on timber co property that's open to the public and even has a DMAP program. Was a bit under the weather so it was a short hunt but we saw tons of fresh tracks in a very short period of time in select places. Other areas were completely devoid of sign. Thats the nature of late season hunting. The deer are heavily concentrated in small areas based on where they find food and cover.

BTW, heard a whole bunch of coyotes ( at least 6 different ones) while on my evening stand. My buddy, a mile away, heard several as well,

Treasure lake has been open to bowhunt and dmap'd the last two years.So far this year,8 bucks and 76 doe have been checked in.

Why does sproul only think there's deer on private land?I killed just as many deer on public land this year and every other yearas I did in Treasure lake and did it in less than half the time it took me in Treasure lake.Every piece of private property I know of gets far more hunting pressure thanmost public land in 2G.I did two small drives for a buddy of mine on the first saturday of rifle season this year on public land.He saw 18 deer.I sat for one drive and killed one of three doe that snuck up behind me before he even started to push.My buddy waited there while I went back to my truck to get a cart and he saw 5 more.This was all before noon in an area of public land that has no deer.

The deer are moving more in search of food because there simply isn't enough browse in 2G.

Gene,I'd probably look the other way if they were actually in the woods hunting.I may even give them an ada boy if they kill a few doe.That most likely wouldn't be the outcome ifI catch them roadhunting however.Those kind of guys make me come unglued.I saw where someone killed one from the road on the last saturday.The day after the season ended,I was showing your co-worker Randy some places to go and we founda drag mark in the snow coming out to the road.There was no gutpile.Just a pool of blood and one set ofbootprints goingin and one set coming back out to the road.There's been some progress made with slobs this year and the rest will have their day.