I feel for ya Dave and fellow Buckaroos. We are still under assault in the area that my property is in in NE Lower Michigan. It's been going on since the late 90's, albeit control attempts have mostly fallen on the shoulders of hunters. So far the state hasn't resorted to Government run extermination. I don't know what the policy is as far as antlerless permits anymore but at one time you could buy 10 a day, per person with no limit. I think there is a cap on them now. The only thing that has gave us a break is after about 3 yrs no one could find a deer left to shoot so everyone left the area to hunt somewhere else...Now we have much lighter hunting pressure and we are experiencing a very modest rebound in numbers. So many jobs exist with the state because of TB that I doubt they will ever let go..but I'd best not get started on that. The other thing is we don't have wolves in numbers yet, but thats just a matter of time too.
Hang in there friend, I don't really know what else to say.

Scott

We eat organic in our house, we just have to shoot and gut it first.....