As a hunter, we all want to see more deer, but realistically there are limits to the number of deer that our ever shrinking amount of suitable habitat can support. Plus there is also a limit to the number of deer that humans find socially acceptable before they start to complain about them and want something done about it.

Finally...many hunters say that depredation permits are used too much and that deer are blamed for damage that is often caused by other animals. Plus many hunters feel that the deer killed with depredation permits in the Summer go to waste and that many of the fawns of does killed end up dead as well and that results in fewer huntable deer in the fall.

I guess the sticking points are....How many deer are to be killed, how are they to be killed, when is that number too high and who decides that number...