The existing hunting organizations have become vastly ineffective in influencing anything because the game has changed with how politics and management is handled. The emerging social media organization will have a good opportunity to see if hunters can have an influence based upon the number of those who hunt deer becoming socially engaged. Now, again, no organization is going to satisfy everyone and if they get caught up in a weapons focus instead of looking at the bigger issue of harvest and herd size, they too will get drawn down into the abyss of being discounted by the agency. There are more then a few in the DNR that often have felt that we are at a point where most who are engaged year round are more focus on the weapon use issue then the status of the deer herd itself.
And there we have it. I don't think there is a truer statement on this thread. Nobody cares about the herd……
