Originally Posted By: jbc
Originally Posted By: Hogwild
Originally Posted By: jbc
Originally Posted By: Hogwild
What is the purpose of the Tag?

It sounds like they are attempting to phase them out or something.....


To have a tangible limit to the amount of bucks you can kill in a year.

Out of tags? Stop shooting bucks


So, we do not have a limit now? Or, are you somehow describing it as an intangible element?

And, again....horn porn......another obsessed with buck tags to limit others. Sorry, bud, but that ain't Biology!


We have a system that works for honest people.

You can kill 3 bucks and print off a brand new harvest record right now, you wouldn't be able to print off more tags.

Everything in the world would work fine if people were honest, but they aren't. Best example I can come up with off my top of my head is why they tear the bottom of your ticket off at Bryant Denny or Jordan Hare,... If everyone was honest they wouldn't need to, but they do it because cheaters would pass it back and get someone else in for free

(I realize it's all digitally scanned now, but you get my point)


So let me see if I get this right. Tags would keep honest people honest, but will not keep the dishonest people from illegally killing more deer. So, I think I am catching on, if we can't make the dishonest people honest, then the only solution is to make the honest people honest, right? But wait a minute, does that solve the problem since the honest people aren't the problem? Well, they aren't the problem until more rules and regulations are heaped on them and hoops to jump through to see if they can still meet our subjective ever changing view of how to keep honest people honest so that addressing the problem of dishonest people killing deer illegally never has to be addressed. But we can always threaten the honest people with more regulations and rules or face a penalty because daggumit you just can't trust those honest people. Does that just about sum it up? However, it does sound just like what government seems the be the absolute best at, creating non-existent problems to fix and not having to deal with the real problem.


"After all, it is not the killing that brings satisfaction; it is the contest of skill and cunning. The true hunter counts his achievement in proportion to the effort involved and the fairness of the sport." Dr. Saxton Pope