Hey Tim:
They sure sold a bunch of bait here. Just like an other year. I hope to see the DNR stick with it and not cave to the farm & squawkers lobby. Maybe after a number of years guys will "learn" to hunt again rather than manage a drive-thru buffet and hunting interest will increase. Maybe more kids will hunt if more actual mobility is involved...:)
I do give the public land big-baiters their space and don't walk up their "set-ups" though--am not an evangelist nor enforcer...not quenching a smoldering wick type of thing. It is still work invested and hunters hoping for a buck, and am thinking/hoping eventually most guys will come around.
We have lived through democrat appointments to bureaucratic positions before, although pragmatism has long left the room. They are enough hunters in MI and interest in hunting to carry considerable weight in Lansing.
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BTW, to the OP, shot a seven, nothing to write home about (UP). We saw some smaller racked bucks but some of them looked like older deer, not pencil-necked 1 1/2 yr olds. Maybe the antler development was retarded by the "spring" weather in our area. The DNR was worried about a die-off and we didn't see any more than the usual carcass numbers on our look-see scout in the spring. Did see a very large buck with his antlers missing save for a couple inches--maybe he got too close to a a truck early on or something.
