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Nice looking cat and dog. I have tried killing cats several times but the neighbot ladies allways seem to get mad. In all seriousness, good work. Packer

As far as a "lo-jack" for your camera. What about puting a tracking device like hound hunters use on their dogs? Then when your camera was stolen all you would have to do is drive around looking for that signal. You could probably find the signal there in Flag and who knows how many other camera's you would find with it. Just a thought, Packer

Donniedent, I hate for this to be my first post but I have to say something. First off you math is way off. Archery hunters do not only take 6% of the total number of deer taken but rather they have a 6% success rate. That means that for every 100 hunters out there they kill 6 deer, give or take. The problem with having OTC tags in some units, I will refer to unit 1 as that is what I am familiar with, is that there is no way to currently limit the number of hunters. I know that 6% success sounds low but when you are talking 6% of an unlimited number of hunters that number can add up. I don't know how many of you hunt unit 1 but there has to be several thousand archery deer hunters in the field, at least that is the way it feels, during the opening and labor day weekends. 6% of several thousand can be quite a few deer. Additionally, we all know and have felt the fact that the game and fish department is currently offering less tags than in the past. This does not change the fact that there are more hunters in the state. All this means is that there are more people trying to get fewer tags, hence trying to make more opportunity so that a larger percentage are in the field and not just spending their time arguing on different forums about how the Game and fish is trying to screw everyone. Sure this may be a hunter management issue, but with the number of people out there that translates into a wildlife management issue, hence going to a drawing for rifle hunters back in the day. Can you immagine if that arguement was made when the state first went to a draw and they left all rifle tags as over the counter? Can you say deer extinction. At some point this state could handle the number of rifle hunters and not have to worry about a drawing but eventually the number of hunters exceeded that capacity. I see the same thing happening now for archery. At one point we could handle the stress that it put on the herds as a whole and at some point we have to realize that the herds need some help. I just hope we all realize this before things get too ugly. Bobbyo, Game and Fish is not being biased against archery hunters, in my opinion, they are just managing what they have control over. Currently, yes when a unit has high hunt success they increase the number of tags. If units go to OTC for archery then they too will reap a benefit of rifle hunters have a higher hunt success. As hunt success goes up tag numbers should go up for both rifle and archery, if they are to keep the ratios right as they have been talking about. Anyway, I think that is enough for a first post. Packer