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Mel said:
AS couple of weeks ago they had a two-day, muzzle loader only, managed hunt at Watkins Mill. They were allowing 85 hunters and each hunter could take 3 does.

Now, I am out at Watkins a lot. I often got out there, park, and read my paper. In the last 3 1/2 months I had seen exactly 6 deer. This is for background information only.

72 of the allowable 85 hunters showed up. During that two-day hunt they killed exactly 14 deer. Wait, it gets worse. Two hunters managed to get their 3 deer each. So, those two hunters took 6 of the 14 total deer killed. That means 70 hunters managed to get 8 deer in two days.

No one around here can figure why the hunt went on knowing there were so few deer in the park. That blue-tongue-type disease had severely impacted the herd two years ago. No wonder to me that only 14 were taken.

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Because the MDC is too big to make simple evaluations like that and adjust accordingly. They've become so big and bureaucratic that making a simple decision and adjustment is not possible. The number of meetings, approvals and forms in triplicate would be mind-boggling. It is easier just to have the hunt and pretend nothing ever happened.

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