it was a long deer season for me, I spent around 50 hours in a stand to shoot a small 6 point last Tuesday with a muzzleloader. I'm not sure how much control the dnr has over the regulations anymore. when the state passed the high powered rules, they did not want the dnr's opinion because the dnr was against the use of high powered rifles. I was in contact with my representative, and he did not even read the proposed law as it was written. all he knew was that it was written by a republican and him being a republican voted in favor of it. I think that the politicians want total control because they are more interested in the revenue from license sales than they are about managing the deer herd. I hope that their greed comes back to bite them in the butt, because people are not going to spend near as much money on hunting gear and a license if they are not going to see very many deer.