It's never been about enforcement or catching the bad guys. That is a secondary result of the check system.
... and ticketing speeders on the highway is really about keeping us safer. The revenue generation is just a secondary result. They can promote the changes however they like. It really is killing two birds with one stone. It's data collection coupled with a tagging system that makes old laws now enforceable where they weren't in the past. You can't tell me that both benefits were not considered when they drafted this concept.
Tell me how its harder now to kill 10 turkeys this year than it was last year? its not. Joe rule breaker kills a gobbler takes it home and never checks it in. The enforcement aspect of game check has NO teeth. Heck, We even had a couple members admit that they didn't check in their turkeys for various reasons. PCP has been saying for a while that he believes the state is under pressure to reduce the gobbler bag limit and this game check is just a means to an end. I have to say I 100% agree. The DCNR will release a statement saying that the turkey reporting was a success and that the low turkey harvest is evidence of what they had feared. Bad hatches and high poult mortality due to predators has caused a drop in our turkey population, therefore we need to lower the limit to 3 gobblers per season. Even though the gobbler is a surplus bird in the spring and has nothing to do with nesting or poult survival.
