I don’t disagree with any of that but I doubt there’s a huge amount of does being shot illegally…….If we whittle down the base population then you’re starting out with whole lot less to work with when talking about enforcement and such……In another five years we might be looking at having 50% of the deer we had in 2004. The less deer we have…..the less you can let the rough side drag with all of this other stuff. It requires tighter regs and enforcement to keep having decent hunting. This is why I say if you want to keep lax rules then you need to fight for having the deer population be as high as the hunters can make it. There’s an opposing force that’s steadily trying to push it as low as they can get it for their own interests. There isnt the real threat of overpopulation like folks make it out to be…..That’s mostly propaganda to keep the hunter misinformed and pulling the trigger.