[Mike Rae]

I for one really struggle with SRD / Fish & Wildlife. Everything they do is a knee jerk reaction, with little or know thought.

Take the bow zones 212 and 248. For years they have provided over the counter general season tags for the following.

A. White Tail deer - you could kill either sex (doe or buck)
B. Mule Deer - you could kill either sex (doe or buck)
C. Antlerless tags (2) - you could kill two does either species (mule or white tail)
D. Primitive Season (2) - after the season you could kill 2 more does either sex with written permission from the landowner.

My point is; Remove the antlerless doe tags, the primitive season doe tags - that takes 4 potentially killed mule deer or whitetails does off the plate

Not enough; Make mule deer and white tail general tags buck only, not either sex.

SRD/Fish & Wildlife provided these seasons to drastically reduce breeding stock and deer numbers.

Now all of a sudden we have a problem, we need to go to draws because we are killing off the mule deer, give your heads a shake!!

If we left the does (breeding stock) alone, can you imagine the number of animals in the bowzones? Can you also imagine what it would do to the kill stats if you removed the does from the numbers.