Some of you are sounding a little selfish.
Why put an acre limit on LO tags? The smaller pieces probably get more time and effort promoting habitat than the big pieces. A person with 10 acres is going to work a lot harder to attract and hold the game vs the neighbor that just farms his. I would probably support this idea if for some reason NRLO tags were considered and it was applied to them. As for residents, no. People aren’t buying 5 acre plots just so they can skimp out on a $30 deer tag.
Another thought, The archery season is 12 wks (85 days). Let’s cut all hunting during the rut and see what it does for age structure. Say early season the first 2 weeks of October and the late primitive that’s already established. That would still give archers over double the amount of open days as the gun seasons. (Not including the January bs)
I’m with the majority here on ideas already mentioned.
1. No new weapons. Scale back on some. Maybe back to shotgun only.
2. Open sight/red dot muzzle loaders. No smokeless.
3. No crossbows. If you can shoot a crossbow, you can handle a 20ga. Set an early disabled season like we do for youth if needed or combine them. Edit: it already exists. No crossbows needed.
4. Floating LO tag
5. No handouts ie; outfitter tags, nrlo tags, governors tags, etc…
6. Figure out a way to fill the antlerless quotas on the ground that needs them. The “pockets” that are skewing the #’s are areas that are almost strictly trophy hunted. At least in this area.