If you have read any of my posts, then you know I am equally confused....hardly any consolation of course
That's why I count on Randy and Willie to try and make some sense of it all. It's very obvious that certain parties want nothing more then to treat us like mushrooms....
It seems to me that two items stand out:
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3. Removes restrictions on who can buy antlerless licenses for the early muzzleloader season. Also removes restrictions on the antlerless licenses someone who hunts in the early muzzleloader season can obtain.</font>
This means basically what it says...we virtually ALL can hunt antlerless deer in the Early Muzzleloader season! Is that what we want? A week or so before the rut...EVERYONE is out driving deer, all perfectly legal...one guy has an anydeer tag, so the big boy you've been watching on your trail cam all summer...kiss him good bye!
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4. Proposed rule would allow hunters to buy November antlerless season licenses beginning on August 15th rather than making them wait until November 11th.</font>
The Thanksgiving antlerless season was supposed to be a temporary thing and the object was that if the quota sold out, there would be no TG season. This basically makes it permanent! Again is this what you want...a few days before shotguns season...from now and evermore..the guns will be blazing, bucks will be killed by temptation, survivors pre-warned, etc. etc.
Please don't let confusion lead you to do nothing, although I certainly understand your hesitation and frustrations on what to say and why. <font color="green">
1) We should want current Early Season ML rules left as is.
2) We should want current restrictions on purchasing TG tags left as is. </font>