Anyone want to bet???

And with a Bow state wide…..

EXACTLY!

In reality there is so much illegal harvesting that goes on that it would make a person's head spin. So many bucks get checked in by someone's wife or daughter that don't even hunt or they check them in on a land owner tag .Some people hunt on a family property that is owned by their grandparents and check the deer in on a landowner tag. Now I know most people are law abiding hunters but their is always that % of shady stuff that goes on and always will.

Have to live under a rock if don't know there is no late antlerless season.

Unfortunately you are correct.

Yep, been one of my pet peeves for a few generations. Laws and regulations that are not, or can not reasonably be enforced are almost never effective laws against the targeted activity or substance, and always end up being a waste of time and effort and an additional risk to any who attempt to enforce them, and a nuisance for those who might have been able to make use of the substance or article without harm to the resource or activity or others.

They are usually popular with the general public and with the portion of the people involved in the activity being regulated who prefer to do so without using the equipment or method being banned, who are quick to say "there oughta be a law...." against whatever they don't personally like anyway.

Pretty much been that way forever, and probably always will be. Whether it's "exclusion" in the bow season of hunters with x-bows, or banning the use of bait, or posting speed limits, or banning the use of drugs, or shooting before or after legal hours or...a number of other things, if you feel like the laws against the activity or substance involved is being effectively enforced and has eliminated or seriously reduced the banned substance or activity, you might want to make a couple laps around Indy on 465 driving the posted legal limit in the left lane, or count the shots you hear from your deer stand/blind before legal light, or check the surrounding area around other stands or blinds for remaining corn or sunflower seeds or goat pellets or one those artificial "rocks" that are supposedly mineral supplements but are actually mostly salt.

Oh well, Happy Holidays anyway 8^)

And the worst part is there in nearly every single case someone that knows yet doesn’t do the right thing and tip the law off to it. If folks were as lawful and “good” as they claim there would be a lot less illegal harvesting.

Not only that they vote

You are absolutely right tynimiller. Most just let things go, but I tell you too that I know personally years ago we contacted the CO due to a farmer down the road gut shooting deer in late summer in his bean fields and they would run off and die in the woods. When we contacted them the answer we got was "you don't want to mess with that farmer cause he is crazy." This farmer has since passed away so things are better, but nothing was ever looked into. Now one of my best friends is a CO and the only one in the county and he says it takes a lot to prove the illegal activity. Being the only one in the county too they have bigger and better things to look into.