My thoughts;

- no reason for anyone to get emotional because what will be will be
- "hunting" has many applied definitions
- blaming the DNR is both ridiculous and shortsighted
- most individuals who deer hunt today have no outdoorsman's skills and don't want to have any
- most individuals who deer hunt today don't really care about the deer
- as has been coming for a long, long time, deer management is about social issue management, not about wildlife biology
- furthering of long range weapons will hasten local municipality weapons use laws and restrictions that could affect not only firearms but archery as well
- the future of "hunting" will be value based financially around access and harvest, not necessarily around hunting
- when anything doesn't have balance between financial cost as an activity and the personalized value of the activity it is under appreciated and demeaned (cost of deer hunting is to cheap)
- it is not the job of the DNR to create social balance acceptance of deer numbers, it is the job of deer hunters to do so and they have failed miserably

What we need is more conservationalists and fewer "hunters".