Don't APR Me ASAP.

There's a movement a foot to enact a law to force every hunter in Southern Michigan to only harvest a deer with at least 4 antler points on one side. The laws have already been changed for most of the Northern Lower Peninsula to only harvest a deer with at least 3 antler points on one side. I've posted earlier about my hunting party's success over the years and 3points on one side would've caused us to only harvest 1 deer in over 25 years. We're not expert hunters in the least but to get the 15-20 bucks over these years someone had to be spending time in the field. Like most hunters we don't own large tracts of land or live close to where we hunt so it's hard to scout out the older deer. With the advent of the trail cam we saw what kind of deer that are in the area within a week of opening day of deer gun season.

The deer are there and if you hunt hard enough and long enough you could have an opportunity to harvest such a buck. When your available time to hunt is compressed into a weekend and part of a week, if you're lucky, the chances of seeing a brute like this are very low. So don't Antler Point Restrict me and if you agree let the DNR and the LPDMI what you think. The group LPDMI is behind this push for large racks, which every hunter loves to see, but the loss of the harvesting experience far outweighs the chance for a few hunters to harvest large racks. The group is paying $14k to "survey" 1000 hunters to get their opinion on the restrictions. Years ago the state voted on keeping all hunting and fishing laws in the hands of the DNR and using sound science to make new laws. This survey is an end around to get a change in law without science being involved. A survey of opinion is just opinion, the opinion of 1000 to govern the other 700K hunters.

Many of the recent law changes have come about using these same surveys of opinion and because of the survey rules manipulation of the laws are favoring certain factions of outdoor enthusiasts. Lets keep these decisions based in science and not in opinion of a chosen few.

Get Outdoors Downriver.