Am I missing something?? We have been doing this in NC for years not digitally but still reporting them!! We had to stop at a local store and report them. No biggie! Not sure what all the fuss is about?

Nighthunter, since you seem to be real tight with the hunting industry through Soterra, make all of the leaseholders and Soterra as a company provide ALL information on ALL deer that are on, travel through, die on, get killed on or seen on those properties report that in log form to the DNCR. Then the DNCR would have a great idea of the deer that was on, traveled through, died on or was killed on those properties and they could "MANAGE" them for you and Soterra and no further information would be required from anybody else since they extrapolate anyways, right??

I believe the only hunters that "ASKED" for it probably were in a very small overly vocal minority that just can't stand the neighbors killing ALL THEIR deer. What do you believe the dollar limit is for the average hunter in the State to kill a deer? $100, $200, $500, $1,000, $2,000, $5,000, $10,000, $50,000, etc?? Or, the point of saturation when public hunting land becomes dangerous and/or a deterrent to hunting? The more lease prices go up, more restrictions, regulations and laws there are the LESS people will be willing or able to hunt. But, I am sure that is perfectly fine with those vocal minorities that want the State to do the work for them.

to me the big deal is it's useless

We need a tag system instead of the check in system.

Useless to people who can't read, interpret a study, understand, or even know what biology is. I figure most that are against a check in or tagging system just don't really care what happens to the wildlife and for the most part are antigovernment and think that they are above the law. Poachers gonna poach!

I’ve heard numerous times now that we are collecting data to help the biologists and everyone is all for it because of this. I’d assume then if they are implementing such a program as this to obtain this data then they must already have GIS programs, etc…..already in place just waiting to plug this data into it. Yes?….No?….Maybe? Has anyone actually said what this data will tell us? All of you folks who are in support of it because it will provide us with better data…..be more specific. If you are so strongly in favor then you must know what we will be able to do with this data. Tell us more. Maybe I missed it. Some of you who have actually sat down with the “men in charge”……did you all discuss what they would do with all of this data. Is the plan just to collect it all and then figure out what to do with it?

Useless to people who can't read, interpret a study, understand, or even know what biology is. I figure most that are against a check in or tagging system just don't really care what happens to the wildlife and for the most part are antigovernment and think that they are above the law. Poachers gonna poach!

Alright... Go here and check out the reports on the left hand side. All kinds of good info there. I can also go back and view all of my harvests over the years.

so ,,, wheres is the living deer numbers ????

No problem, lets hire 4000 new state employees, purchase 2000 new choppers and count every single deer everyday so we will know precisely. Great idea but not possible. OR we could let the people who KNOW and STUDY the wildlife in our state daily do what they do. hell without them there wouldnt be any deer or turkey here to hunt to amount to anything. You use harvest data to determine the health and density of your herds, age range, where you need to regulate harvest, where you need to take more. Damn I am an IT guy not a biologist and I can understand that.