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Originally posted by bigbrow:
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Originally posted by delaney:
[b] The reality is that everyone has a different view of what hunting is and no one is any more right then wrong. If anyone has half a brain, then everyone has half a brain. I really do wish folks would get over the right and wrong of seasons. Sure, opinions and feelings are different but there is no right or wrong, just preferences. Heck, I might be for shortening gun and bow seasons dramatically, and that would make "quality" hunting really good. But it sure doesn't make me right.
Wow I can tell this whole conversation went right over your head. There is in fact a right and a wrong and the way indiana manages the deer pop. is wrong. Ohio would be retarded to adopt our regs. Look at the numbers people, they don't lie. Ohio kills more deer and more trophies. The only reason indiana comes anywhere close to ohio in trophy bucks is because of a terribly long gun season with out that indiana would be off the map. Yea sure we have killed some trophy deer in the past couple years and have been making some noise, with our regs I can promise you this wont last our regs are designed to slaughter the population not manage it and definitely not to grow trophy bucks. [/b]
"Good deer biology does not make for good public policy." Indiana NRC mtg (somewhere I have the date/quote in my notes).

Deer herd is not and will not be managed from a biology standpoint IMO. It is managed by culture. That is why I think Dave is correct in what he is saying that my preference may not be someone else's and that does not make both right or wrong.

My .02 (I should have just kept quiet)

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