The other thing a tag system with telecheck would be good for is collecting more accurate data on our deer. The current system is voluntary and im sure even all the honest hunters don't submit their data
How is a tag system not voluntary? A person still has to take the paperwork out of their wallet, afix it to the animal and call it in. Would a poacher do that? If you have to send the tags back in at the end of the season before new tags are issued, what would keep the poacher from just not using the tags or not use all of the tags and send the ones they did not use back in even though they killed more than they were supposed to?
The tags also would only account for the deer reported and not for shot and unrecovered, killed by predators, killed by cars, die of old age, etc. A management tag system is a good idea when there is a defined controllable area where the amount of pressure, land area and harvest information can be obtained, such as State WMA or other individual tracks of land that someone wants to manage for herd density, buck:doe ratio, age structure, antler size etc (this occurs now).
Micro-management of the resource should done at a site specific location under the broad regulations established by the State (like it is now). That is not to say that studies of local areas should not be done to see what is happening or what can happen, such as Lowndes and Barbour County WMAs, but using that information across a broad spectrum of different properties would not be good science or management.
