I see a lot of DNR shaming. Before you blame them, look at who has the full authority to make the rules in the first place...then who has the responsibility to enforce them...politically motivated rules the NRC makes, politically motivated rules the DNR has to enforce.
Politics has the most power. If you want to change the rules, go voice your (educated) opinion at the NRC meetings. It is their duty as public servants to listen to the people.
It’s the NRC that I despise.
The E-Mail they sent out is a FREAKING JOKE !!!!
They said something about keeping consistency with the LP.........
Hell......... what a sham that is..... If they were gonna keep consistency with the LP....... then baiting would be outlawed across the UP.
They just set the laws that work for them and their rich friends. The NRC can kiss my ass.
Now last Thursday the NRC voted at their meeting that his year there will be a 4pt per side restriction on both tags. If CWD is so bad why the change?
I am all for the "Let em go, let them grow" so a little bit of me is happy to see this. But at the same time the buck I harvested last year is now off limits. I shot a 3.5 year old 6 pt. that weighed 179 filed dressed. I can tell you with the utmost confidence that deer was never going to be anything more than a main frame 6 pt. the rest of his life. Unless he developed some stickers in a few years to make him legal he would die of old age with the new rules.
If you believe what the biologist tell you, deer like this buck are the main carriers of CWD. But now you cant shoot him. Some consistency in the rules sure would be nice.