I can agree with you there as well. “Right game laws”, unfortunately the DNR/Insurance Companies/etc., know that most hunters will buy as many tags and shoot as many deer as possible, I simply don’t see the tags being reduced to where they need to be. I feel very fortunate to hunt with the crew I do, and have area landowners with the same vision.

Great deer!! Any idea on age? With a rack like that I would think he had unique genetics or was an old deer, maybe both?

There’s no doubt that the declining deer numbers is dissapointing, however I think we’re at the point of turning our frustration away from the DNR and over to the hunting public. The DNR does not pull the trigger to shoot a deer, they just want us too. If we want this herd to increase we as hunters will need to start managing deer, not the DNR. I’m always amazed by the 10 man crews that used to shoot 15-20 deer every year and then were the first to complain that there were no deer because of the DNR, look in the mirror!